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Labour Campaign for Free Movement motion for Momentum policy primary

We have been sent the following motion, which a meeting of Momentum in the North East agreed to submit to Momentum’s “policy primary” for Labour Party conference.

Motion passed by Southampton Momentum: take back wealth from the super-rich, reverse cuts, build social equality

The way “to deliver social justice and equality” is by a fight against capitalism, not “strong partnership with business”

David Evans, and the Labour leadership seem set on what has become since 2015 a “traditional” Labour Party way of dealing with dissent: suspend people on vague or spurious charges, tell them that public complaint is a disciplinary offence, and sit on the case indefinitely, without due process.

Uyghur Solidarity Campaign and the Labour Movement Solidarity with Hong Kong (UK) have written this motion for the Labour Party conference scheduled in September 2021.

‘Body, Mind, Spirit’ is the theme of this year’s annual LGBT+ History Month which runs throughout February. First initiated by the education charity Schools Out to mark the second anniversary of the 2003 abolition of Section 28, LGBT+ History Month aims to teach young people the history of the Gay Rights movement.

The NEU needs to act urgently in defence of these union activists, supporting local defence campaigns, helping to link up the campaigns so we can provide mutual support, and seeking to rouse the membership to take whatever action is necessary to force the employer to back off.

Safe and Equal is an organisation of keyworkers and trade unionists that has been campaigning for full sick pay for all since the beginning of the pandemic. Now we want to coordinate campaigning for full sick and isolation pay.

A BBC survey has found nine out of ten major local authorities in England with not enough cash to cover their spending plans in the financial year 2021-2. Coronavirus could lead to them going £1.7bn over budget. To keep services going, say council leaders, billions cut from central government funding to councils over the last ten years must be restored.