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All over the country, Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) and branches are passing motions in support of Jeremy Corbyn & in defiance of our General Secretary, David Evans & regional officials who are trying to shut this movement down.

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The more that party officialdom take authoritarian measures against party members, the more protests & actions there will be, and the the more they try to take away our freedom of speech, the louder we will become.

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In 2016, right-wing MPs in the Parliamentary Labour Party started their ‘chicken coup’ by a co-ordinated mass resignation which led to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith. They were using the political power they had to try to stop Jeremy Corbyn & socialism in the party.

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The way @Keir_Starmer & his office are behaving is a continuation of that chicken coup. It is another attempt to impose the will of a tiny number of people in our party - those in the leadership & the Parliamentary Party - over the rest of us.

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It is about re-creating the top-down party of old, where the members were silent & got on with their door knocking & leafleting, their “unpaid labour” in the service of the few.

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Well, they started this war. It was not of our choosing, but now it is here, it’s clear that party members will fight back. Our only power is in our numbers, and our leverage is to assert our voices through our local parties.

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If they shut us down, our voices will become louder. We are not going back to a stage-managed party, with those who make the decisions in Westminster, and the rest of us as foot-soldiers.

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