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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.
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If 2020 was a year of bitter disappointment and demoralisation for the Labour left, then 2021 is shaping up to be no better, writes James Harvey
The questions that many party members began asking in the aftermath of the December 2019 election defeat, Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader in April 2020 and the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn in October 2020 continue to be unacknowledged, let alone answered by Labour’s official left. As the witch-hunt against the left intensifies, the silence of those MPs and organisations expected to lead the fightback remains deafening. This
de facto complicity and failure of leadership, combined with reports of large-scale resignations and growing inactivity, suggests that the demoralisation and the disillusion of the Labour left in Constituency Labour Parties has reached crisis levels.
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