JEREMY CORBYN supporters were urged to build support for socialist policies both within Labour and wider communities at a packed-out launch of Momentum Scotland at the weekend.

Labour MSP Elaine Smith slammed attacks from the right-wing media and Blairites within the party at the Saturday event.

She pointed out that “60 per cent is a huge mandate for change, and the only ones who don’t realise that are the dinosaurs in the Parliamentary Labour Party.”

Ms Smith welcomed the progressive move to oppose Trident and TTIP at Scottish Labour’s conference earlier this month, arguing that the party’s’s right-wing trajectory in recent years had led to Labour’s miserable showing at last May’s general election.

Labour member Stephen Low made the case for the party’s left activists to work alongside SNP members, as “many are against TTIP and all of them should be opposed to Trident.”

However, Mr Low said it was also important to challenge them, making the point that the SNP had been in power since 2007 and yet little progress had been made on a defence diversification strategy.

FBU Scotland’s Denise Christie welcomed the recent announcement that Dundee City Council has become the sixth local authority in Scotland to declare outright opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement.

Ms Christie said that TTIP was “an assault on democracy” and that these victories from local councils were down to “grassroots campaigning in communities.”