The Organiser – June 2025

Hello comrades,

In this latest issue, we bring you:

• standing up for the most vulnerable
• news from across the movement
• how we’re getting organised
• a story from New York

How We’re Getting Organised

Recent Local Election results and Labour’s performance in the polls are a clear signal that the Government must change course or risk losing more support from its traditional voter base. From public ownership to wealth taxes, socialist policies have never been more popular or urgent.

So if you or someone you know is interested in becoming a Labour Conference delegate this year, please let us know by filling out the form here. For more information about this year’s Conference, visit our webpage.

Finally, we’re backing a number of socialist and progressive candidates for key internal Labour positions this year. They’re standing for the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC), National Constitutional Committee and National Women’s Committee. Find out more about them here.

You have until Friday 27th June to nominate them in your CLPs.

We cannot afford to sit on the sidelines. That’s why we’re getting organised for real change.

Despite widespread opposition from MPs, trade unionists and disability campaigners, the Labour Government is still planning to cut £5 billion in benefits for disabled people. This would be the largest cut in social security for a decade.

Targeting the most vulnerable in society while the rich get richer is not only cruel, it’s a political choice. More than three million households are set to lose out, with around 700,000 families already living in poverty likely to become poorer.

This is more austerity, plain and simple. We need a Labour Government that will stand up for the poorest in society by implementing wealth taxes to redistribute wealth.

So far, 42 Labour MPs have publicly voiced opposition to the proposed welfare cuts, whilst up to 100 others have written to the Prime Minister expressing their concerns privately. But if more spoke out, the Government may be forced to change course.

Use our lobbying tool to write to your Labour MP urging them to speak out and vote against any cuts to welfare. If you do not have a Labour MP, you can write to Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall instead.

• Staying in Labour: We cannot give in and allow the Labour Right’s authoritarianism to continue. Things can and will change if we continue organising for real Labour values. Socialists MPs, Councillors and Party members across the country are making real change in their communities. Disillusioned with the Party? Here’s why you must stay.
• Conversations on the Left: Momentum NCG representative Bryn Griffiths hosts a brilliant podcast focusing on the role of socialists in Labour. He’s been joined by a number of exciting speakers so far, from Compass’s Neal Lawson to Andrew Fisher – and has an episode with Richard Burgon coming up. Catch the podcast here.
• Book club: Fancy something to read? The new book Keep Left: Red Paper on Scotland 2025 is calling for socialist policies to stop the rise of the far right – and you can buy it now. Focusing in particular on the issues affecting Scotland, it seeks bold solutions to fix the crises the country faces. More details here.
• Ban all arms sales to Israel: The tide is turning on how how Ministers are framing the genocide in Gaza. However, lawyers acting on behalf of the UK Government are defending its decision to supply arms to Israel. We must call this out for what it is: complicity in genocide! Sign our petition urging the Government to ban all arms to Israel here.
• Interested in being a Councillor? We’ll be running our annual Future Councillors’ Programme this year and we’re on the lookout for the next generation of socialists to join the struggle in Local Government. Could this be you? Let us know using the form here.
• Winter Fuel Allowance: The Government announced a partial U-turn on Winter Fuel Payments. It’s a small feat but still shows what the Left can achieve when standing up for real Labour values. Check out Labour MP Jon Trickett’s op-ed on why the Government must go further to protect vulnerable pensioners.
• Local Elections: Labour is losing voters in its traditional heartlands, from Doncaster to Runcorn to Durham. The recent local elections proved what happens if the Party moves further away from its core principles. Read Momentum Co-Chair Sasha Das Gupta’s statement here.
• Interview: Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan was on the PoliticsJOE podcast recently explaining why he’ll be voting against welfare cuts. Watch here.

Zohran Mamdani, a socialist councillor in New York, is running a bold and radical campaign to become Mayor of New York City. He is challenging Establishment candidate Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party Primary and is standing on a platform of rent freezes, free public buses, 200,000 new units of social housing and municipal grocery stores to bring down the cost of food.

Mamdani has raised a significant amount of money from small donors and has held canvassing sessions attended by large numbers of people, knocking on 95,321 doors in one week. His campaign team has also produced creative and relatable videos which are available on his website here. Mamdani has been steadily rising in the polls and is now within touching distance of Cuomo.

The Primary will take place on 24th June.

Bonfire of Equalities 

Despite opposition from the Left, Labour’s  NEC voted to shut down Women’s Conference, exclude trans women from All Women Shortlists and, in an unprecedented move, declared that the Party will no longer be publishing membership numbers.

Solidarity to the NEC reps who stood up to the Right’s authoritarianism. You can read their full report, published in Labour Hub, here.

We hope you enjoyed our latest issue. Any feedback you have and ideas for how to make the newsletter better are much appreciated.

Don’t hesitate to send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts.

In solidarity,

Team Momentum