ABSTRACT
Momentum itself brought together the old Labour left with activists who had been involved in the United Kingdom Occupy movement and other anti-austerity drives dating back to the 1980s. Momentum organisers were quite clear early on that they intended to transform the Labour Party into a social movement. The process of instituting Momentum is ongoing at the time of writing, and indeed has been far from straightforward. The concept of an institution called Momentum appears to have an element of internal contradiction. While the National Committee was making major decisions, local Momentum groups were forging on in various directions. The factional dispute over the future of Momentum would be played out between the Steering Committee and the National Committee. For delegate-structure supporters, the belief that Lansman wanted to take control of the organisation was confirmed when the Momentum office took matters into their own hands after losing the key votes on e-democracy at the National Committee meeting.
