Hilary Schan Momentum Chair on the Labour Left Podcast

This episode of the Labour Left Podcast is an interview with Hilary Schan, the Co-Chair of Momentum and a Worthing Councillor. Dave Lewney, a recent Chair of Hilary’s local Constituency Labour Party, described her as  “the centre of gravity of the East Worthing and Shoreham Left.”  I think we can safely say Hilary is one of the key figures on the Labour Left today. The interview starts with Hilary’s political awakening during Jeremy Corbyn’s first leadership campaign. Key passages of the podcast include: ·     Why Momentum is so important to a thriving left? (5 min 17 secs in). ·     How did Worthing Labour Party deliver a political earthquake and seize control of Worthing Council for Labour? (21 min 21 secs in). ·     Was it all a bit too good to be true? Enter the Labour machine and the march of the cookie cutter Starmerites (32 min 58 secs in). ·     Momentum’s campaign for a ceasefire now in Palestine (41 mins 37 secs in). ·     Find out who Hilary has appointed as the Labour Left Podcast’s latest class hero. Do not miss out on our class hero’s poem as it is hilarious (49 mins 32 secs in). ·     Feedback from listeners and watchers of the last Labour Left Podcast with the indefatigable Liz Davies (53 mins 36 secs in). Can I thank you all for your feedback in response to our first proper podcast with the Labour left activist Liz Davies.  If you didn’t catch the last episode you can watch it on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify here.    Jeremy Gilbert described the Liz Davies episode as “a valuable resource to the Labour Left.”  If you have not listened to Jeremy’s podcasts, look him up on your favourite podcast provider or click here because he is brilliant.   Can I thank Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn’s former Director of Policy, for plugging our podcast show on his way to October’s Labour Conference.   Finola Brophy who worked alongside Liz Davies in Islington Council’s Women’s Unit fed back that it was “a real honour to contribute to this powerful podcast.”  I think both Liz and I would agree that the honour was all ours. The last comment goes to Pete Firmin who reported that our Glastonbury clip with Jeremy Corbyn had him “welling up about the hope inspired at that time and the hope Starmer and his friends are determined to kill.” Me to Pete.  I am sure we would both agree that the point is do not mourn organise. And I hope the Labour Left podcast can make a continuing contribution to that all important task. If you are enjoying the podcast, give the podcast a like and a follow.  Please, please share it with your friends. If you are moved to do so comment on the podcast to keep the debate going. Each time you do something to promote our podcast and the other great podcasts on the Labour Left you help create our own alternative media. Let us all work together to voice alternative opinions from the front line and escape the grip of Britain’s legacy media. We are hoping to publish a Labour Left Podcast every month. If you have got a left figure or radical author you would like to see interviewed in 2024 drop me a line at [email protected] The new podcast is brought to you by Bryn Griffiths, the podcast host, and Luke Robinson, the podcast editor.  We are both activists in the labour movement, Momentum and The World Transformed in North Essex. Bryn writes regularly for Labour Hub. You can follow Bryn on social media here