Momentum, the social movement set up to support Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, is launching a children’s wing called Momentum Kids. Momentum is organising a fringe festival, The World Transformed, alongside next week’s Labour party conference in Liverpool and Momentum Kids will launch with a creche for parents attending the event. Momentum claims it will then spread nationwide, aiming to provide cooperatively run childcare, including breakfast clubs, for parents who want to get involved in political activity but find it hard to fit around their caring responsibilities. After Jeremy Corbyn wins, Labour has to make up or break up | Zoe Williams Read moreThe new group is also aimed at “increasing children’s involvement in Momentum and the labour movement by promoting political activity that is fun, engaging and child-friendly”. Momentum’s leaders insist it is an open, democratic movement aimed at boosting political engagement and pursuing some of the ideas championed by Corbyn, but its critics claim it is a hard left caucus aiming to seize control of Labour using the tactics of Militant, the organisation ejected from the party in the 1980s.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2016 21:01 UTC