ORGANISERS of Momentum’s first national conference will undoubtedly see the event as a success.

The left organisation, born out of Jeremy Corbyn’s first leadership campaign, is only just emerging from a bitter internal faction fight.

Activists from some established far-left groups, such as the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, have not been happy.

They have criticised Momentum’s leadership for centralising power and favouring a one-member, one vote set-up instead of a traditional delegate structure. The Fire Brigades Union leader Matt Wrack has echoed this stance.

Supporters of Momentum’s founder Jon Lansman have countered that the organisation must be outward looking and not just a haven for Trotskyists to advocate their transitional demands. They argue that it’s wrong for Momentum to echo Labour structures and have its own policies.

Momentum’s last event in Birmingham, a meeting of its nowdissolved national committee, reportedly ended with delegates on both sides of the row in tears.

Saturday’s meet-up was a lively affair, held in a warehouse more accustomed to hosting raves. Very “new politics” indeed.

The event had no motions or standing orders in sight. Instead it focused on training activists to assert themselves in Labour politics, as well as discussing Labour’s path back to power.

Plenty of “frank conversations” about the party’s shortcomings were held in interactive break-out sessions.

But also there was a glimmer of hope as activists urged one another to organise in constituency parties and branches, and to take over doorstep canvassing from the “moderates.”

If anything is likely to rile up Tom Watson, it is this.