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How to fight the Labour right Submitted by Matthew on 15 February, 2017 - 2:00
Author: Keith Road
The Labour Party has 600,000 members and Momentum has 20,000. That should be good news for the activist left in the party. Certainly, if the left organises on the scale it did for the two leadership elections that delivered majorities for Corbyn, then it should be capable of making real progress in other Labour internal elections, in getting through positive rule changes which would strengthen and democratise the Party.
However it would be foolish to discount the organisational strength of the Labour right and its ability mobilise. That’s particularly a problem because the fall-out and demoralisation arising from the “coup” in Momentum (the abolition of existing committees and imposition of a structure) has knocked the left’s organisational ability at least for now.