Editing Labor Left (section)

== Factional activity ==
[[File:Young Labor Left activist Amy Haddard.jpg|thumb|An activist from the Young Labor Left in 2011]]
Most political parties contain informal factions of members who work towards common goals, however, the Australian Labor Party is noted for having highly structured and organised factions across the ideological spectrum.<ref name="LP">{{Cite journal|title = Factions and Fractions: A Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party|last = Leigh|first = Andrew|date = 9 June 2010|journal = Australian Journal of Political Science|volume = 35|issue = 3|pages = 427–448|doi = 10.1080/713649348|s2cid = 144601220}}</ref>

Labor Left is a membership-based organisation which has internal office bearers, publications, and policy positions.<ref name="LP" /> The faction coordinates political activity and policy development across different hierarchical levels and organisational components of the party,<ref>{{Cite book|title = Machine Politics in the Australian Labor Party|last = Parkin|first = Andrew|publisher = George Allen and Unwin|year = 1983|pages = 23}}</ref> negotiates with other factions on political strategy and policy, and uses party processes to try to defeat other groups if consensus cannot be reached.<ref name="PP">{{cite thesis |last=Faulkner |first=Xandra Madeleine |date=2006 |title=The Spirit of Accommodation: The Influence of the ALP's National Factions on Party Policy, 1996-2004 |publisher=Griffith University |url=https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/366353 |access-date=18 Jan 2019}}</ref>

Many members of parliament and trade union leaders are formally aligned with the Left and Right factions, and party positions and ministerial allocations are negotiated and divided between the factions based on the proportion of [[Australian Labor Party Caucus|Labor caucus]] aligned with that faction.<ref name="LP" /><ref name="PP"/>