How Momentum is tapping into the new US socialism

Momentum’s alternative Labour conference, the World Transformed, is back in Liverpool, where it was born two years ago. And like the city’s most famous sons, the Beatles, the grassroots group has ambitions to make it big in the US, where socialism is the new political buzzword.
At TWT one of the star turns has been Julia Salazar, the charismatic activist who this month defeated a veteran incumbent in a Democratic primary to run for a seat in the New York state senate.
Momentum is keen to develop its connections with US movements, swapping campaigning ideas and forging connections. Salazar... read more