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This was the right policy.
We've been providing free second hand laptops to people for the last six months through @NCLMutualAid groups in the West End.
Would this practical, real existing solidarity have been possible through branch or CLP structures? Sadly I doubt it. https://twitter.com/RLong_Bailey/status/1346415932156104704
We've been providing free second hand laptops to people for the last six months through @NCLMutualAid groups in the West End.
Would this practical, real existing solidarity have been possible through branch or CLP structures? Sadly I doubt it. https://twitter.com/RLong_Bailey/status/1346415932156104704
Momentum could have really created a basis form radical community organising (& I know a bit of this happened in some places).
The turn towards CLP and branch structures whilst necessary in some ways, stopped the Corbyn project becoming something with any roots or basis.
The turn towards CLP and branch structures whilst necessary in some ways, stopped the Corbyn project becoming something with any roots or basis.
I remember a left media celebrity at a book launch in Nov 2019 claiming that CLP meetings were inspirational and energizing and what people should be doing.
It made me question how many they'd actually ever been to.
It made me question how many they'd actually ever been to.
If we'd backed up the policy platform we had with the type of organising that the more radical mutual aid groups have managed to do, we would've created a genuine movement & something which would have been much harder to fragment and dissipate, whatever had happened electorally.
This was one of the major failings of Corbynism imv.
