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To defend the left, Momentum must change
MATTHEW HOLINSHEAD explains the rationale behind the new campaign started up for the Momentum NCG elections
A Momentum rally for Jeremy Corbyn

THE Starmer leadership’s threat to extinguish Momentum and Socialist Campaign Group MPs is a threat to the whole of the left.

If Momentum is too weak and disoriented to defend them, MPs like Zarah Sultana, Richard Burgon and Diane Abbott will be kicked out of the party.

There will be no unapologetic champions of workers’ interests in Parliament, and few figureheads to rally to the cause, as Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell did in the 2010s when opposing austerity, and the likes of Bell Ribeiro-Addy are doing now when it comes to the right to protest. 

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