“The battle is won. The war rages on”. This is how Chris Williamson has aptly summed up the High Court judgment, which was delivered at Birmingham’s Civil Justice Centre today, October 10 2019. The judge ruled that the Labour Party acted unlawfully in re-suspending Chris on 28 June, and “that there was no proper reason” […]
This CLP notes that: Marc Wadsworth, a leading Black antiracist activist, was expelled from the Labour Party – with no right of appeal – on April 27, 2018, charged with bringing the Party into disrepute; his expulsion followed 22 months of suspension from membership; his expulsion was not for antisemitism, despite continuous prejudicial media […]
Regrettably, Marc Wadsworth and Deborah Hobson of Grassroots Black Labour have decided to part company with Labour Against the Witchhunt to concentrate on GBL. This comes after LAW organised a lobby of Marc’s disciplinary hearing and a very successful #Justice4Marc speaking tour in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Chester, Bristol, Swansea and Sheffield to protest against his […]
Labour Against the Witchhunt organised a fantastic meeting in Sheffield yesterday, as part of the national ‘Justice4Marc’ speaking tour with Marc Wadsworth. The meeting was packed, with around 80 people cramming into the wonderful DINA arts venue – and the staff working there last night got very involved, too! We heard from: Jewish author Paul […]
This report appeared first on Labour Party Marxists’ website There is also a report on Tony Greenstein’s blog The chair of the meeting, Deborah Hobson, began by calling for a minute’s silence in honour of the 58 Palestinians killed and thousands injured in the latest Israeli atrocity. An atrocity defended and excused by Donald Trump, […]
Click here to download all messages of support in a PDF file: from Alexei Sayle, Ken Loach and Chris Williamson MP Please accept my apologies that I can’t be with you tonight, but I would like to express my support for and solidarity with Marc’s campaign to clear his name. I attended Marc’s hearing and spoke on his […]
Click here to download all messages of support in a PDF file: from Alexei Sayle, Ken Loach and Chris Williamson MP I’m sorry not to be with you tonight – but very pleased to send a message of strong support to Labour Against The Witchhunt and Marc personally. No one wants a party that tolerates abuse or racism. […]
On 10 May 2018 the Queen’s Park branch of the Labour Party (in Hampstead & Kilburn CLP) adopted the motion below nem con and with one abstention: ________________________ This branch notes that: · Marc Wadsworth, a leading Black antiracist activist, was expelled from the Labour Party – with no right of appeal – on April 27, […]
The expulsion of Marc Wadsworth from the Labour Party was a politically motivated outrage – read our statement. Here’s what you can do about it: Support the national speaking tour #Justice4Marc, which is co-sponsored by LAW, Jewish Voice for Labour, the Labour Representation Committee and Grassroots Black Left. We are raising funds to help cover the transport costs […]
“Victim of a politically motivated campaign against Jeremy Corbyn” Labour Against the Witchhunt strongly condemns the outrageous decision to expel Marc Wadsworth after a two-day hearing in front of three right-wing members of Labour’s National Constitutional Committee. Marc is the latest victim of the politically motivated witch-hunt against Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters. Marc Wadsworth, […]
Feel free to change and amend. Please send us successfully passed motions to info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org and we will publish them. You can download the motion in Word format here. 1. This branch/CLPs notes that: 1.1 Ruth Smeeth MP claimed that at the launch of the Charkrabarti report in June 2016, veteran anti-racist campaigner Marc Wadsworth was being […]
NEWS RELEASE April 27 2018 Today’s expulsion by Labour of veteran black anti-racist activist There will be a press conference today at 1.15pm at Abbey Green, outside Parliament. Present will be Marc Wadsworth, Deborah Hobson and Noami Wimborne-Idrissi of Jewish Voice For Labour Grassroots Black Left (GBL) is appalled by the expulsion of its member […]
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-04-26/labour-anti-semitism-mps-lynch-mob/ How anti-semitism row MPs turned lynch mob 26 April 2018 If you force me to choose – and tragically, the mischievious confection of an “anti-semitism crisis” in the Labour party does require me to choose, because it turns racism into a competition between worthier “victims” – Marc Wadsworth, a black activist and the founder […]
