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Splintering the JC9 will only damage Corbyn and the Labour left
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins marches at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Tolpuddle, Dorset

LABOUR PARTY supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have a responsibility to vote in a disciplined way in the ongoing national executive committee (NEC) election for the JC9 candidates.

Comrades may have misgivings about how the group came about or about individuals on it, but the fact is that splintering that list plays into the hands of Corbyn’s opponents.

This reality renders all the more surprising the decision by the Momentum national co-ordinating committee not to support Pete Willsman, a lifelong campaigner for party democracy.

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