Momentum
Left maintains NEC seats – despite Momentum
Four of the five candidates of the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance were elected to the NEC.
Nothing new on offer in Momentum leadership elections
By Urte March VOTING IS open until 6 July in the Momentum leadership elections, with two slates—Your Momentum and Momentum Organisers—competing in a lifeless re-run of the 2020 contest. Your Momentum is a rebrand of the incumbent Forward Momentum grouping orienting itself towards social movements and community campaigns, while Momentum Organisers emphasises the need to […]
Momentum’s Refounding Convention – not the process we need
Momentum's biggest problem is not structural but political.
Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn – defiance not compliance!
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn is an attack against the socialist left which must be opposed
Labour Disconnected: Starmer’s strategy of non-opposition
Resist the return to Blairism.
End the senseless slaughter, send aid not warships to migrants in the Channel!
Open the borders to refugees, economic migrants, asylum seekers.
Starmer lays down the law with CLP discussion ban
By Tim Nailsea On 12 August, the Labour Party’s General Secretary, David Evans, sent an email to CLP secretaries banning discussion of ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer’s decision to settle a court case brought by former employees and the journalist John Ware, who had accused the party of slander in its rebuttal of their accusation of antisemitism […]
Where next after Momentum elections?
By Urte March In the recent elections for Momentum’s national leadership, Red Flag stood three candidates as part of the Anticapitalist Platform. Our aim was to put forward an alternative programme: turn to the class struggle as the basis for rebuilding a mass movement capable of organising a socialist solution to the capitalist crises engulfing […]
Is the Party Over?
A disorderly retreat... or stay and fight?
Labour: the fight for free movement starts now
At Labour Party conference in Brighton, the internationalist Left scored a significant victory on conference floor with the passage of a motion on immigration which, in principle, commits Labour to maintaining and extending freedom of movement; a radical break from Labour’s previous enthusiasm for immigration controls. The motion also mandates Labour to reject any points-based […]
Labour bureaucrats gerrymander free movement motion ahead of conference
In the run up to Labour Party Conference 2019, the Labour bureaucracy has stitched up its members by shutting down debate on freedom of movement.
Reject Momentum’s democracy proposals – demand a sovereign conference
The low horizons of Momentum’s democracy review forces us to ask the question - what is Momentum for?
Empty gestures as Corbyn and May inch closer to Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn's response to Theresa May’s new plan for Brexit was perceptive enough: “nothing has changed”.
Controversial launch for Labour anti-racism campaign
Grassroots activist initiative expropriated by Momentum
Newham: Labour party members finally oust Robin Wales
ROBIN WALES, the long-standing, perhaps long-reigning would be more accurate, directly elected Mayor of Newham, has finally been deselected as the Labour Party’s candidate in the forthcoming mayoral election. In an Open Selection ballot of the membership, held after Wales was not adopted as the candidate in a second Trigger Ballot, he was roundly defeated, […]
Where was Labour on Palestine demonstration?
By KD Tait THERE WERE a lot of Labour people on Saturday’s demo for the 15 Gazans murdered in cold blood by Israel – but there was not one Labour MP among them. Why? The protest was so supportable, called by Palestine solidarity campaigns to protest the murder of 31 civilians by Israeli occupation forces […]
Newham Mayor ungraciously concedes members’ democratic rights
IN A dramatic about turn, Newham’s directly elected Mayor, Sir Robin Wales, has called for an “open selection” ballot to choose the Labour Party candidate in May’s election. This comes more than a year after party members challenged the result of a “trigger ballot” which confirmed Wales, Mayor since 2002, as the candidate. In that […]
Momentum candidates sweep new NEC places
THE CLEAN sweep of Momentum candidates for three new seats created to represent Labour’s expanded membership on its nec is a chance for the left to press for long overdue democratic reform of the party. Yasmine Dar, Rachel Garnham and Jon Lansman’s landslide victory confirms the demoralisation and decline of the right’s base amongst the […]
Some next steps for Momentum
The situation is fraught with pain and anger and pregnant with opportunity. This is more than a Tory electoral meltdown – in the terrible aftermath of Grenfell, the Tories have lost the consent of the people and cannot rule.
Some First Steps for Momentum’s Grassroots National Committee
The General Election is Momentum’s chance to help Labour activists give our campaign the radical socialist and campaigning edge it needs to defeat the Tories.
Grassroots Momentum conference should call for a broad, democratic organisation of the Labour Left
THE GRASSROOTS Momentum conference in London should be a chance to rally Labour members and supporters around a fighting strategy to push for democracy and socialist policy in the movement. The conference is the first chance Momentum’s members have ever had to meet up nationally. It is also the first national meeting of grassroots activists […]
