‘No Going Back to Anti-Immigration Politics!’ Proposed by Kas Witana

We, the undersigned members of Momentum, were shocked to see the Labour party send out an anti-immigration graphic in response to Theresa May's speech at Tory Party conference - criticising the Tories for failing to bring down immigration.

We call on the party to ensure that no more anti-immigration propaganda is issued in its name, and call for our movement to step up its fight to defend migrants' rights and freedom of movement alongside social demands which can unite all workers.

Stagnant and declining living standards, the housing crisis, public services stretched to breaking point have not been caused by migrants or migration. They have been caused by "austerity", neo-liberal economics, and decades of social neglect - all part of rich getting richer at the majority's expense.

Accepting that immigration is the problem, in the teeth of the facts, would mean failing to stand up both for the truth and basic working-class solidarity.

Momentum will stand unequivocally and vocally for defending and extending freedom of movement and migrants' rights. We will advocate social demands - on jobs, workers' rights, housing, services, migration impact funding and the NHS - which can unite all workers.

We will campaign for transparency and accountability in the negotiations over Brexit, and to ensure there is a real democratic mandate for whatever outcome is reached. We will campaign for a settlement which preserves as many of the progressive aspects of EU membership as possible, including on free movement of people, environmental protection, workers' rights, human rights, science and research funding and infrastructure and investment.

We will lobby the Labour Party and its leaders to clearly adopt the same position.

‘Resisting Councils Cuts’ Proposed by Ali Brown

The cuts imposed by the Tories since the 2010 general election have meant an onslaught on public and local services across the country. The cuts have been ideologically driven, attacking working class areas the hardest and cutting services and benefits from the most vulnerable in society.

We will see increasing numbers of communities campaigning to defend themselves against these cuts, including those imposed by Labour councils, like the inspiring Durham teaching assistants struggle. Labour councils and individual councillors should unite with unions and their communities to resist cuts to services and jobs.

Labour councils should:  Lead the party in campaigning for the funding councils have lost since 2010 to be restored, there is enough money in society for these services, but it is in the wrong hands;  Take immediate action to stop policies like privatisation, outsourcing, academisation, use of consultants, and high pay and for senior managers;  Publicise needs budgets, explaining the funding necessary for decent public services;  Increase their accountability by opening up discussion in the Labour movement, including democratic local conferences of Labour parties, unions, community and tenants groups, service groups etc. to discuss cuts and how to fight back;  Lead a coordinated campaign to resist cuts.

Momentum should:  Advocate for this within the Party;  Support communities defending themselves against council cuts;  Convene a conference of left councillors, local Labour parties, union reps, community campaigners etc. to discuss ideas and tactics for resisting council cuts.

‘Strengthening Momentum Branches’ Proposed by Tina Werkmann

We believe that Momentum should be an open organisation that welcomes all those who supported and fought for Jeremy Corbyn’s victory. Therefore, we urge all Momentum members and supporters to join the Labour Party and fight for its political transformation from bottom to top. We confirm our commitment for Momentum membership to remain open to everybody who:

 supports the objectives and aims of Momentum  and is not currently a member of an organisation that stands candidates against the Labour Party

Well-functioning branches should be at the heart of Momentum. It is in the branches that we collectively educate ourselves about the Labour movement, where we organise our involvement in the Labour Party and other campaigns and where we discuss what kind of society we are fighting for.

 Ideally, all Momentum members should be organised in branches. Setting up new branches where none exist and supporting existing branches should be one of the key tasks for the newly elected national leadership.

 Branches should exercise a wide degree of political and organisational autonomy in their local work. They must also be the engine that drives forward the campaigns and actions agreed by the national leadership.

 Members and branches have the right to submit their views to higher committees up to the national Momentum leadership, where they should be discussed. Members and branches can publicly disagree with decisions and campaigns of higher Momentum bodies, providing they act as parts of the national organisation and do not sabotage or disrupt those actions.

 Momentum’s central finances and the national database should be controlled by the newly elected national leadership. Branches should have access to that part of the Momentum database that covers their geographical area. Using this, they can get in touch with local members and supporters, draw them into organised work with the branch, facilitate their education and full integration into the cultural and political life of the organisation - locally and nationally.

 Branches should be allocated 25% of the central income of Momentum in any one year, subject to the political circumstances of the time. This should be distributed in a conscious and proportionate way, considering factors such as: - the size of the branch - its own capacity to raise funds independently from members, supporters or activities - the specific political challenges that that a local organisation may be facing to up its activities/make interventions, etc.

 In addition, branches should be able to raise their own finances to fund their local activities and the functioning of their organisation.

Resolution to Momentum National Conference Proposed by Dave Berry and John Kirby

Conference notes: 1) The relatively low level of involvement in the Labour Party of the hundreds of thousands of new members who have joined to support and defend Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. 2) The continuing weak representation of Jeremy Corbyn supporters as elected officials of Labour Party branches, constituencies and other local and national party structures. 3) The ongoing domination by opponents of Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party apparatus, the Parliamentary Labour Party and major Labour councils. 4) The very real danger that the political gain represented by Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership victories in 2015 and 2016 will be lost in 2017 as his political opponents keep or take control of local Labour Party branches and constituencies as well as national bodies.

Conference believes that: 5) A significant increase in the involvement of Jeremy Corbyn supporters in branches, constituencies and other structures of Labour Party is needed in order to defend Jeremy Corbyn and to advance the politics that his election represents. 6) In 2017, a central aim of Momentum must be to organise for Jeremy Corbyn supporters to be elected as officers of Labour Party branches, constituencies and other local and national bodies. 7) Focusing on internal policy debates within Momentum is a serious diversion from the most pressing task of organising within the Labour Party to support and defend Jeremy Corbyn. 8) Adopting policy positions on a wide range of topics would prematurely polarise, and possibly split Momentum, thereby hindering efforts to encourage involvement in the Labour Party of those Jeremy Corbyn supporters not yet actively engaged. 9) The only thing that unites all Momentum members and supporters is the election and defence of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. 10) Jeremy Corbyn’s Ten Pledges, produced during the 2017 leadership campaign, forms the only possible policy platform for unity within Momentum, and the only possible basis for unity between Momentum and the overwhelming majority of Jeremy Corbyn supporters in the Labour Party.

Conference agrees that: 11) The top priority nationally and locally in 2017 is to work to involve significantly more Jeremy Corbyn supporters as activists in the branches and constituencies of the Labour Party and in wider Labour Party activity and campaigning. 12) It will work to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn supporters are elected as branch and constituency officers such as chair, secretary, treasurer and, in particular, as delegates to the 2017 Labour Party national conference. 13) The only political platform adopted by Momentum shall be Jeremy Corbyn’s Ten Pledges which are submitted as part of this resolution and included at the end of this resolution. 14) No further policy resolutions on any topic shall be adopted by this Momentum conference.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Ten Pledges

1. Full employment and an economy that works for all: We will create a million good quality jobs across our regions and nations and guarantee a decent job for all. By investing £500 billion in infrastructure, manufacturing and new industries backed up by a publicly-owned National Investment Bank and regional banks we will build a high skilled, high tech, low carbon economy that ends austerity and leaves no one and nowhere left behind. We will invest in the high speed broadband, energy, transport and homes that our country needs and allow good businesses to thrive, and support a new generation of co-operative enterprises. 2. A secure homes guarantee: We will build a million new homes in five years, with at least half a million council homes, through our public investment strategy. We will end insecurity for private renters by introducing rent controls, secure tenancies and a charter of private tenants’ rights, and increase access to affordable home ownership. 3. Security at work: We will give people stronger employment rights from day one in a job, end exploitative zero hours contracts and create new sectoral collective bargaining rights, including mandatory collective bargaining for companies with 250 or more employees. We will create new employment and trade union rights to bring security to the workplace and win better pay and conditions for everyone. We will strengthen working people’s representation at work and the ability of trade unions to organise so that working people have a real voice at work. And we will put the defence of social and employment rights, as well as action against undercutting of pay and conditions through the exploitation of migrant labour, at the centre of the Brexit negotiations agenda for a new relationship with Europe. 4. Secure our NHS and social care: We will end health service privatisation and bring services into a secure, publicly-provided NHS. We will integrate the NHS and social care for older and disabled people, funding dignity across the board and ensure parity for mental health services. 5. A national education service: We will build a new National Education Service, open to all throughout their lives. We will create universal public childcare to give all children a good start in life, allowing greater sharing of caring responsibilities and removing barriers to women participating in the labour market. We will bring about the progressive restoration of free education for all; and guarantee quality apprenticeships and adult skills training. 6. Action to secure our environment: We will act to protect the future of our planet, with social justice at the heart of our environment policies, and take our fair share of action to meet the Paris climate agreement - starting by getting on track with our Climate Change Act goals. We will accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy, and drive the expansion of the green industries and jobs of the future, using our National Investment Bank to invest in public and community-owned renewable energy. We will deliver clean energy and curb energy bill rises for households - energy for the 60 million, not the big 6 energy companies. We will defend and extend the environmental protections gained from the EU. 7. Put the public back into our economy and services: We will rebuild public services and expand democratic participation, put the public back into our economy, give people a real say in their local communities, and increase local and regional democracy. We will rebuild our economy with public investment to deliver wealth for all, across our regions and nations in a genuinely mixed economy. We will act to ‘insource’ our public and local council services, increase access to leisure, arts and sports across the country and expand our publicly-controlled bus network. We will bring our railways into public ownership and build democratic social control over our energy. 8. Cut income and wealth inequality: We will build a progressive tax system so that wealth and the highest earners are fairly taxed, act against executive pay excess and shrink the gap between the highest and lowest paid - FTSE 100 CEOs are now paid 183 times the wage of the average UK worker, and Britain’s wages are the most unequal in Europe. We will act to create a more equal society, boost the incomes of the poorest and close the gender pay gap. 9. Action to secure an equal society: includes action to combat violence against women, as well as discrimination based on race, sexuality or disability, and defend the Human Rights Act. We will ensure that the human rights of all citizens are respected and all are protected from discrimination and prejudice. We will take action to tackle violence against women and girls, racism and discrimination on the basis of faith, and secure real equality for LGBT and disabled people. We will defend the Human Rights Act and we will guarantee full rights for EU citizens living and working in Britain – and not allow them to be used as pawns in Brexit negotiations. 10. Peace and justice at the heart of foreign policy: We will put conflict resolution and human rights at the heart of foreign policy, commit to working through the United Nations, end support for aggressive wars of intervention and back effective action to alleviate the refugee crisis. British foreign policy has long failed to be either truly independent or internationally co-operative, making the country less safe and reducing our diplomatic and moral authority. We will build human rights and social justice into trade policy, honour our international treaty obligations on nuclear disarmament and encourage others to do the same.