Momentum

Momentum convention: a mixed bag

The Labour left grouping Momentum held its first-ever "members' convention" via Zoom on 10 March 2024, eight and a half years after the group was set up.

Activist Agenda: campaigns and info

A list of many campaigns that Workers' Liberty activists are involved with and support, plus info about other organising and resources.

Labour: Let Corbyn stand! Labour left: Stay in there!

Keir Starmer used a speech welcoming the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) end to its monitoring of the Labour Party for antisemitism to rule out Jeremy Corbyn standing as a Labour candidate in the next election. In Labour’s rules, Starmer has no power to making that ruling. But selections in the last 18 months have shown the right-controlled National Executive (NEC) doing effectively whatever it likes. Previous guarantees that candidates with enough branch or union backing would automatically make longlists or shortlists have vanished. Former MPs have been prevented from standing...

The left and lessons from Corbynism

Michael Chessum met Martin Thomas from Solidarity on 15 October to talk about his new book on Corbynism, This Is Only The Beginning . Near the end of the book (p.210) it says: “Socialist was the movement’s prevailing adjective, but its immediate policy programme was… social democracy, and there was little or no collective discussion inside Corbynism about what a truly socialist or anti-capitalist programme might look like in the future”. Wasn’t that fundamental? And wasn’t the same lack also true of the “movements” of 2010-15 which the book describes as feeding into Corbynism? Corbynism was an...

Analysing Labour's poll results

Mish Rahman's defeat in the Labour NEC election is a step backwards for the left The two-yearly elections for Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and other positions (results out on 1 September) show a continuing drift to the right. In 2020 the left won five seats in the NEC constituency section to three for the right, and one for Ann Black (reckoned as “centre”). This year: four left, four right, and Black. The right also won the Young Labour seat on the NEC; with backing from Unison and GMB, Elsie Greenwood beat incumbent Lara McNeill. Turnout was down again. In 2018, when the left...

Reversal in Momentum poll

In 2020, the Forward Momentum grouping won every member-elected seat on the National Coordinating Group of Labour left organisation Momentum. It defeated the Momentum Renewal slate linked to the office faction that destroyed Momentum’s democracy in 2017. In July 2022, Forward Momentum-rebranding Your Momentum won 14 seats to 15 for Momentum Renewal-successor Momentum Organisers . Momentum Organisers got over 50% of first preference votes, to just over 45% for Your Momentum. Labour Left Internationalists ran three candidates in the London and Eastern region (Abel Harvie- Clark, Maisie Sanders...

Momentum calls its election

Labour left organisation Momentum is holding elections for its National Coordinating Group, the first since 2020, with the ballot running 28 June-6 July . People can join Momentum to vote until 3 July. The election is being run by Single Transferable Vote. In the London and Eastern region, Solidarity prefers the candidates put forward by Labour Left Internationalists ( LLI ): Maisie Sanders, Abel Harvie-Clark and Andy Warren. (It may be best to make those 1, 2, 3, so LLI doesn’t lose out by votes being dispersed.) LLI calls for transfers to the “Your Momentum” (YM) candidates, and voting YM in...

Left seeks place in Momentum election

Labour Left Internationalists (LLI) is seeking to stand candidates in the elections for Momentum’s National Coordinating Group, to shake the organisation into active support for workers’ struggles. LLI was formerly Momentum Internationalists, which in its turn was formed in 2020 by people previously active in Labour for a Socialist Europe. It has combined campaigning for free movement, for solidarity with Ukraine, for unity with Labour left campaigns on issues like housing, with arguing for democracy in Momentum and for Momentum to organise visibly and regularly to support strikes and protests...

Left voice needed in Momentum elections

Labour left organisation Momentum last held elections for its National Coordinating Group (NCG) in 2020. Nominations for new elections opened 13 June and close 20 June. Voting will be 28 June to 6 July. Momentum is diminished, but still a significant force, or potential force, with about 20,000 members. The two main slates in 2020, Forward Momentum (which won) and Momentum Renewal (representing the 2017-2020 “office coup” leadership), have rebranded as Your Momentum and Momentum Organisers. (More on what they represent here .) In 2020 the Momentum Internationalists (MI) group, coming out of...

Momentum to run new elections

The Labour left group Momentum opens nominations for its National Coordinating Group elections on 13-20 June, and will vote from 28 June to 6 July. After victories for the left in the recent ballot on democratic reforms in Momentum, the election will be by Single Transferable Vote (with reserved seats) in eight redrawn (more rational) regions. This creates a real chance for left-wing minorities to gain seats: the old first-past-the-post system tended to give almost-clean sweeps to whatever was the dominant faction. Labour Left Internationalists (LLI, formerly Momentum Internationalists) is...

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