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Britain’s shame over child refugees

by Daphne Liddle

AROUND 1,500 child refugees from the newly demolished “Calais Jungle” camp were completely abandoned for three days as the French and British governments denied responsibility for their care.

So far Britain has accepted just over 270 unaccompanied refugee children who have relatives already in this country. This is a drop in the ocean of the huge tide of refugees accepted by other European countries and many of those trying to get to Britain, through Calais,

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Britain’s shame over child refugees

LRC conference report: The struggle for Momentum

by New Worker correspondent

LAST SATURDAY, at the conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) in London, Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), delivered a passionate attack on elements within the steering committee of Momentum who are using very underhand methods to prevent a planned founding conference for Momentum that would give it a constitution and democratic internal structures.

Wrack is a member of the Momentum steering committee — a body that was meant to be a temporary structure until Momentum acquired a proper structure. Currently it has a national committee that created the smaller steering committee.

He began with a warning that at the Labour Party conference the old right-wing leadership had organisationally “run rings round” the left-wing Corbyn supporters, stitching up the agenda, who was to be allowed to speak and so on in advance to prevent Corbyn supporters getting a word in.

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LRC conference report: The struggle for Momentum

Editorial

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JOHN MCDONNELL has called on all of Labour’s members and supporters to close ranks around the Corbyn leadership and prepare for a snap election next year. At the Labour Representation Committee conference in London last Saturday the Shadow Chancellor said he believes that the new premier, Theresa May, will go to the country next spring to shore up her authority over Tory back-benchers, where dissent is growing over the Government’s apparent stance on the negotiations to leave the European Union.

When May took over from David Cameron she ruled out an early general election on the spurious grounds that we were “only one year into” the current parliament and voters want stability. That didn’t bother Harold Wilson, who led a minority Labour government after the February 1974 general election and then called another one in October in a bid to win an overall majority in Parliament.

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