The Chairman is John McDonnell, who the LRC supported as a candidate for leader of the Labour Party.
According to LRC affiliate Socialist Appeal, in November 2014: "The Labour Representation Committee has lost a third of its members and is now down to 600 – in a party of 190,000.
"[1] Despite this claim, LRC members were involved in launching the activist Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory in early 2015.
It was founded as the Socialist Youth Network in March 2007 and relaunched in 2012 under its current name.
The National Committee is also responsible for the preparation of publications, and for appointing delegates to represent the LRC.