This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with
the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.
Its recent years in government hide the fact that the
Labour movement has an amazing and unique story, itself growing from disenfranchised people
organising in much the same way as the students are doing today.
Watson stated: «These three documents outline a concerted strategy for members of the AWL to infiltrate (or, to use the language of the documents, «intervene») in the
Labour Party» with the explicit intention of influencing the party to indoctrinate «more people of revolutionary socialist ideas,» «advance and transform the wider labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.&
Labour Party» with the explicit intention of influencing the party to indoctrinate «more people of revolutionary socialist ideas,» «advance and transform the wider
labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in, organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.&
labour movement» and to focus «on drawing in,
organising, propagandising among, and recruiting among, the new people (especially the new young people) mobilised by the Corbyn surge.»
The
Labour leader left the meeting and then headed into Parliament Square to address thousands of supporters,
organised by the grassroots
movement Momentum, in a move that infuriated MPs.