On November 27, a majority of an all-members’ meeting of Labour Against the Witchhunt decided to merge with Labour in Exile Network. We will publish the new communication channels and website here when they are up and running. Four members of the LAW steering committee resigned following that decision (Jackie Walker, Tina Werkmann, Stan Keable […]
Why we have resigned from the steering committee of Labour Against the Witchhunt
Join statement Following the vote at LAW’s all-members’ meeting on November 27 to merge with Labour In Exile Network (by a vote of 47-27 with 12 abstentions, all votes and motions here), we have decided to resign from LAW’s steering committee. We cannot support the view that the struggle against the Labour witch-hunt is over, […]
Response to 4 LAW SC members who resigned
This is the response of the LIEN Steering Committee to the resignation letter from 4 members of the LAW Steering Committee To the Resigned Comrades in LAW in response to your email to members dated 30th November 2021. As members of the LIEN Steering Committee, we would like to respond to your letter to LAW […]
Stan Keable, secretary of LAW, vindicated in court
Full judgement here Good news for a change: Stan Keable, secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt, has defeated his employer’s appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“the EAT”), and that the EAT has upheld the Employment Tribunal’s findings that Mr Keable was unfairly dismissed and should now be reinstated. The ET’s finding was upheld, that […]
Auto-excluded for ‘liking’ Facebook posts by LAW
Comrades should be aware that the Labour Party is now auto-excluding members for clicking ‘Like’. The NEC motion of July 20 2021 listed a number of reasons as to why the Labour Party might ‘auto-exclude’ somebody – but funnily enough, it did not list clicking ‘like’ on a Facebook post put up by the now-proscribed […]
Message to Comrades targeted by the Party following the NEC decision to proscribe LAW and LIEN
General Background The NEC meeting on 20th July identified evidence of support for proscribed organisations (based on 2.1.4B) as follows: …examples of “support” for any of the above organisations for purposes of Chapter 2, Clause I.4.B of the Labour Party Rule Book may include: a. Membership of any of the four organisations;b. Standing for election […]
Stay and fight: A strategy for the next few months
Contrary to a report in the gossip section of the Spectator, LAW does not pursue a strategy of calling on members to leave the Labour Party. As it states in our lead motion to our August 28 members’ meeting: “LAW remains committed to fighting against the witch-hunt and urging the left to stay and fight […]
Labour Party conference 2021 – what’s going on?
We’ll be constantly updating this page, so please keep checking back 1) Are you coming to Brighton for LP conference (September 25-28)? Let us know if you are a delegate or visitor to conference or if you are coming to Brighton to attend the Resist at the Rialto Event. We are setting up a special […]
Not the Forde Inquiry II – tell your story!
What has Labour done to YOU? Been on tenterhooks waiting for the repeatedly delayed Forde Inquiry to report? Enough we say!! Do you have a story of injustice, undemocratic process, or other dirty goings on in Labour? This is your chance to talk back! As the dwindling resources of Starmer’s Labour continue to be spent […]
Roger Silverman: My reply to the Labour Party’s “Governance and Legal Unit”…
I have received your communication, in which you demand that I “provide evidence that I am not a supporter” of a group that you arbitrarily proscribed three weeks ago. This is a classic technique practised in all such purges going right back to the original witch-hunts of the seventeenth century. It defies all norms of […]
How to prove you’re not a witch…?
Today, Friday August 13, a number of Labour Party members have received letters entitled “Notification of Possible Automatic Exclusion from Membership of the Labour Party” over their alleged association with Labour Against the Witchhunt. These letters confirm that in order to be considered a member or supporter of LAW, you will have to have committed […]
We want justice and democracy – not bans and proscriptions! Protest outside Labour HQ on July 20
Sign the petition: Defend the left – against all bans and proscriptions!
Sign the petition now! https://www.change.org/DefendTheLeft Like the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Defend-The-Left-against-all-bans-and-proscriptions-107876054914888 Add your group/CLP/Trade union branch by emailing info@defendtheleft.co.uk Initial supporting organisations include: Jewish Voice for Labour, Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour In Exile Network, Labour Left Alliance, Labour Party Marxists, Labour Representation Committee, Socialist Appeal and Socialist Resistance https://www.defendtheleft.co.uk ; https://twitter.com/DefendTheLeft ; If your organisation/CLP/union […]
Defend the Left! No bans, no proscriptions!
There are alarming reports that the July 20 meeting of the Labour Party NEC will discuss a motion proposing the proscription of four left-wing groups: Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour in Exile Network, Socialist Appeal and Socialist Resistance (or Resist, there are different reports). We are holding an emergency meeting tomorrow evening with other Labour […]
Just say No to antisemitism training by the JLM!
Joint statement by Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour Campaign for Free Speech, Labour Left Alliance and Labour in Exile Network Why you should NOT participate in the JLM ‘training sessions’ on antisemitism A number of Labour Party members and role holders have been invited by general secretary David Evans to participate in online training sessions […]
June 5, 7pm: Not the Forde Enquiry
Martin Forde QC launched his inquiry into the leaked report on the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in May 2020. The leaked report appeared to show horrific attempts by the party’s paid officials to undermine the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn – but also many mistakes made by the Corbyn leadership, which made concession after […]
Resist at Labour Party conference 2021
Labour Against the Witchhunt and a number of other organisations have got together to jointly discuss how we can intervene at this year’s Labour Party conference. Like a number of groups, we had our venues cancelled in the run up to the 2018 and 2019 conferences, when pro-Israel supporters wrongly claimed that we were supporting […]
Model motion to LP conference: Abandon IHRA and adopt the Jerusalem Declaration
This motion has been drafted as a model motion to go to Labour Party conference 2021, but it can be tweaked for other purposes. Please note that this has to go through your branch first, then your CLP and needs to be submitted to the NEC by September 13 in order to be heard at Labour Party […]
Statement & model motion: Solidarity with Howard Beckett!
Joint statement by Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour Left Alliance, Labour in Exile Network, Rotherham Labour Left and Sheffield Labour Left. To add your organisation’s name, please email info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org Solidarity with Howard Beckett!Nominate him in the UNITE general secretary elections! Of course Howard Beckett was not being racist when he sarcastically wrote that Priti Patel […]
Letter by Ken Loach to Keir Starmer
We will not be silenced! March 31: National day of action to defend academic freedom, free speech and the right to protest! Defend David Miller!
Download the leaflet in PDF format here. The right to free speech and the right to protest are coming under increasingly brutal attack. Professor David Miller’s job at Bristol University is at stake, because he dared to speak out on Zionism. This is an important test case – should he be sacked, this will result in […]
Labour Campaign for Free Speech
Contributors to the conference on Saturday February 13 included Norman Finkelstein, former Labour MP Chris Williamson (founder Resistance Movement), Graham Bash from Jewish Voice for Labour, anti-apartheid veteran Ronnie Kasrils, suspended CLP chair Esther Giles, Sami Ramadani (Stop the War Coalition), Jamie Stern-Weiner (expert on IHRA) and David Miller (University of Bristol). The conference established […]
Letter in the Guardian: Antisemitism definition is undermining free speech
Lawyers and retired judges argue that the IHRA working definition undermines freedom of expression, and Gavin Williamson is wrong to forcefully impose it on universities. Letter is online here. The legally entrenched right to free expression is being undermined by an internally incoherent “non-legally binding working definition” of antisemitism. Its promotion by public bodies is […]
Ronnie Kasrils: Against the witch-hunt!
Ronnie Kasrils, is a former ANC freedom fighter, and was Intelligence Minister in South Africa. This article is based on Ronnie’s address to the launch rally for the ‘Campaign for Free Speech’, December 12, 2020. The video from the second session (with Ronnie) is here , the first session can be watched here The assault […]
Starmer and Rayner’s all-out war against the left: How we must organise now
No unity with the right! Time to organise for a real fight-back! Plan ahead and start organising shadow CLP structures! As if it wasn’t bad enough that Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner both spent the ‘International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians’ addressing a meeting of the Zionist Jewish Labour Movement, Starmer used the opportunity to […]
Defend Corbyn, Reject EHRC
(as agreed at our all-members’ meeting on November 21 2020) LAW congratulates all those CLPs, branches and party members who refused to be silenced and raised a storm of protest over the treatment of Jeremy Corbyn. Of course, the witch-hunt has never been just about one individual, no matter how prominent. Defence of Corbyn, as […]
Watch: Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn! Stop the witch-hunt!
Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Tony Greenstein and Chris Williamson discussed how the left should fight against the ongoing witch-hunt, the EHRC report into the Labour Party – and the terrible response by much of the Labour Left, which continues to call for ‘unity’ with the right.
The EHRC report: Politically biased, damp squib
The report of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is pretty much a damp squib. It is noticeable that the report doesn’t even try to identify what antisemitism is, which after all was its remit. Nonetheless it did pretty much what it was supposed to do when the pro-Zionist groups ‘Jewish Labour Movement’ and […]
LAW statement: Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn!
Silence on the witch-hunt should never have been an option! Appeasement does not work! Jeremy Corbyn was absolutely right in the comments that got him suspended: “One antisemite is one too many, but the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents”. It is a real shame that he […]
NEC elections: Vote for anti-witch-hunt candidates!
Labour Against the Witchhunt calls on its members and supporters to vote for the following seven candidates in the current Labour Party NEC elections, which start on October 19. Roger Silverman Chaudhry Qamer Iqbal Carol Taylor Spedding Ekua Bayunu Alec Price Steve Maggs Cameron Mitchell If only one of them was elected to the NEC, […]
An open letter to my suspenders – by a witch-hunted “witch”
I have now been under “administrative suspension” from the Labour Party for three months and there is no sign of an end. I can’t vote in any elections, I can’t attend meetings or vote in my branch or in my local party at all. I was on the Executive Committee locally so I can’t fulfil […]
Open letter to Jermain Jackman’s “Socialists of Colour”
We feature below an important open letter from the Labour Left Alliance. One of the candidates in the current NEC elections supported by the LLA, Carol Taylor-Spedding, has outrageously been accused of holding “openly antisemitic view” – simply for stating in a questionnaire that she feels “inspired” by Jackie Walker and that she opposes her […]
Forde Enquiry: Submission by Labour Against the Witchhunt
Download the PDF version of this submission here. 1. Introduction The report ‘The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 – 2019’ (the Report), gives us irrefutable proof of the plotting and outright sabotage committed against Corbyn, and the hundreds of thousands who joined the party following his […]
Video: Campaign for Free Speech! with Norman Finkelstein, Tariq Ali, Jackie Walker, Chris Williamson & others
This important event discussed how we can fight back against McCarthyite attempts to stifle debate on the issue of Israel/Palestine – and label those unjustly expelled and suspended as ‘unpersons’ who we are not allowed to share platforms with. No to (self-)censorship! Discuss how we can fight back and mobilise for free speech in the […]
Model motion: No confidence in Keir Starmer! No more settlements with witch-hunters!
Download as a Word file here 1. This branch/CLP notes with great concern: a) Keir Starmer’s July 22 2020 apology and payment of ‘damages’ in six figures to the former Labour Party employees who participated in the dreadful and one-sided BBC Panorama programme on alleged antisemitism in the Labour Party. b) That the legal advice […]
RLB sacking: Stop the anti-left witch-hunt!
LAW Statement June 26 2020 Labour Against the Witchhunt condemns the June 25 sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey from the shadow cabinet. Her ‘crime’ was retweeing an interview in The Independent with the actor Maxine Peake. Repeating a widely circulated but inaccurate story, Maxine commented: “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George […]
Reinstate the Liverpool Wavertree 4!
Defend free speech in the Labour movement! The Labour left will not be silenced on party democracy and Israel/Palestine! Sign here: https://www.change.org/p/labour-party-reinstate-the-wavertree-4 We believe that the May 29 suspensions of four Constituency Labour Party officers from Liverpool Wavertree CLP (including the chair and secretary) under antisemitism charges are deeply unjust. The four comrades – Nina […]
Expelled for this single tweet – the witch-hunt in overdrive
Labour Against the Witchhunt has become aware a new wave of suspensions and expulsions – often for the most absurd reasons. For example, we have seen the full suspension letter the Labour Party sent to Becky Massey, an activist in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and member of the executive committee of Brighton City Labour Party […]
SIGN: Solidarity with Diane Abbott and Bell Ribeiro-Addy – and all those unjustly expelled!
Sign the petition here! The defeat of Jeremy Corbyn has given the right inside and outside the Labour Party a mandate to press ahead with their campaign against the left. They will not rest until the Labour Party has been purged of all traces of socialism. The latest manufactured ‘outrage’ of the Board of Deputies […]
VIDEO: The Labour Party under Starmer and our tasks – with Jackie Walker, Graham Bash and Moshe Machover
VIDEO: The Labour leadership elections and our tasks (filmed April 14 2020) After Keir Starmer’s election to leader of the Labour Party, we discussed how we can continue the fight: * to defend freedom of speech in our party, * to stop the misuse of trumped up charges to remove left candidates, and * to […]
Joint LAW/LLA statement on the ‘leaked report’: Full investigation needed! All disciplinary cases of the last 5 years must be reviewed!
Joint statement by Labour Against the Witchhunt and the Labour Left Alliance We demand a full investigation into the witch-hunt and the election campaigns! Now all disciplinary cases of the last five years must be reviewed! As experienced activists in the Labour Party, we knew that the right in the party was plotting against Jeremy […]
Fight against Keir Starmer implementing the ’10 Demands’ by the Board of Deputies!
In one of his first actions as leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer has sent a letter to Marie van der Zyl, president of the BoD, promising to “deliver them as soon as possible”. Click here for a number of model motions you can move in your branch, CLP and trade union branch. As […]
Model motions: Reject the 10 Pledges by the Board of Deputies
Please click here for some advice on how to move a motion or emergency motion in the Labour Party. LAW model motion 1) This branch/CLP notes: That all candidates standing for the position of Labour leader have signed up to the 10 Pledges issued by the Board of Deputies, including Rebecca Long-Bailey. That the BoD […]
Sign the open letter to Rebecca Long-Bailey: Reject the BoD’s 10 Pledges!
This letter is available for download a A4 leaflet in PDF format by clicking here (file will automatically download). CLICK HERE TO SIGN Dear Rebecca (rebecca.longbailey.mp@parliament.uk) We call on you to reject the Board of Deputies’ 10 Pledges We address this letter to you, because, unlike Keir Starmer, you state that you intend to “stay […]
No, Rebecca Long-Bailey, you SHOULD NOT sign up to the 10 pledges by the ‘Board of Deputies’!
No, Rebecca Long-Bailey, you SHOULD NOT sign up to the 10 pledges by the ‘Board of Deputies’! These outrageous demands, pushed by a bunch of Tory-supporting, pro-capitalists, should not just be ignored by any candidate running for the leadership of the Labour Party – but rejected outright as inappropriate interference. Email Rebecca if you think […]
Labour Left Alliance launch conference, February 22, Sheffield
LAW is very proud to be part of this important new development – please get involved! Sign up your group or as an individual! The LLA launch conference takes place on Saturday February 22 in Sheffield. Details are available here. Please attend one of the many pre-conference events taking place in order to be eligible […]
Resolutions, statements and quotes in support of Chris Williamson MP
So far, at least 29 CLPs, 9 Momentum branches and dozens of trade union bodies and left Labour organisations have come out in solidarity with Chris Williamson MP (we know of couple of other CLPs where it was decided not to publish the successful resolution). Each CLP has an average of 800 members, so you […]
LAW statement on Chris Williamson’s court battle: “The battle is won. The war rages on”
“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” […]
Proposed draft constitution for the Labour Left Alliance
submitted by Labour Against the Witchhunt and Sheffield Labour Left LLA’s rules will be discussed at LLA’s launch conference in January/February 2020, but we are keen to start a democratic and open debate on this issue and to hear what others think – this is only a draft and we are happy to incorporate changes […]
The re-suspension of Chris Williamson is a travesty of justice
Sign our open letter to the NEC here The renewed suspension of Chris Williamson MP, two days after he was readmitted to the Labour Party, is deeply troubling. We are particularly concerned that Keith Vaz’ U-turn seems to have been motivated purely by the pressure coming from the right inside and outside the party. Sadly […]
We welcome Chris Williamson’s reinstatement! Now use trigger ballots to get rid of the saboteurs!
Today we are celebrating the long overdue reinstatement of Chris Williamson MP. The reality is that he should never have been suspended in the first place! The allegation that Chris had downplayed anti-Semitism was totally unfounded. His comments, made at a Momentum meeting in Sheffield, were condemned in a deliberate attempt to ruin both the […]
How to use the new trigger ballot to deselect your MP
Labour Party conference 2018 voted to introduce two separate trigger ballots: one for all the Labour branches of a CLP, another one for all local affiliates (trade unions, socialist societies, cooperative organisations). Here is how it works (please note that CLPs are still awaiting written guidelines – though MPs seem to have been sent a […]
Statement and model motion: Reinstate Pete Willsman!
Labour Against the Witchhunt deplores the disciplinary action against NEC member Pete Willsman, who has been put under administrative suspension by general secretary Jennie Formby after “a number of complaints, including from NEC members, about Pete’s latest comments”. Comrade Willsman insists that he made his comments to the American-Israeli author Tuvia Tenenbom “off the record”, […]
The Equality Commission’s Inquiry is part of the witch-hunt against Jeremy Corbyn
It is unfortunately no surprise that the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has opened an official investigation into the Labour Party. Any kind of neutral body would have had to immediately dismiss the complaints lodged by the Jewish Labour Movement and the so-called Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. These organisations have no interest in fighting racism: their […]
Stan Keable: “Judgement defends the right to express anti-Zionist views”
The judgement and reasons took more than two hours to deliver, and will be published online by the employment tribunal. It defends the right to freedom of speech – to express views in public, including anti-Zionist views, which may offend some people or many people. Much case law was quoted and elaborated. The judgement will […]
Stan Keable has won his employment tribunal
We are very pleased to report that LAW secretary Stan Keable has today WON his employment tribunal against Hammersmith and Fulham council. The employment tribunal judge ruled that it was “an unfair dismissal, both procedurally and substantively.” On April 21 2018, Stan was dismissed from his job with Hammersmith and Fulham Council after 17 years […]
Sign the petition: No to a national government! Implement the trigger ballot now!
We are deeply worried about the delay to implement the trigger ballots, which Labour Party conference 2018 voted to reform. Trigger ballots are currently the only way in which Labour Party members can exercise some democratic control over their parliamentary representative. This is particularly worrying with talks of a snap election or, worse, the formation […]
Jeremy Corbyn’s letter is welcome, but very late
We welcome Jeremy Corbyn’s fighting spirit in his letter to the Board of Deputies. As usual, the BoD reacted with fake outrage to the ‘news’ that Corbyn wrote a foreword to the hugely influential book ‘Imperialism – a Study’ by AN Hobson. We particularly agree with this paragraph: This accusation is the latest in a […]
Congratulations to Sam Gorst – under investigation, but elected Labour councillor!
Congratulations to Sam Gorst, who has just been elected Labour Party councillor in Cressington – despite a nasty campaign against him. In the run-up to the local and European Union elections rightwingers in and outside the Labour Party have been busy scrolling through the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Labour candidates in particular. Naturally, they […]
Mail on Sunday finally apologises to Ken Livingstone!
Thanks to everybody who complained to the Mail on Sunday about its malicious and misleading article about our meeting ‘Defend the Left’ on March 25. On April 4, the rag has finally apologised to Ken Livingstone (which was printed in the April 7 edition of the Mail on Sunday): Ken Livingstone said: “A massive thank […]
Video: Hands Off the Left! Reinstate Chris Williamson! Don’t expel Jackie Walker!
Support Chris Williamson: Seven things you can do
Use either of these draft motions in your Labour Party branch/CLP. If successful, please send it to Jennie Formby and to LAW, so that we can publish it alongside other statements and resolutions here. Please note: We hear that in some branches and CLPs, the chair prevented the meeting from discussing motions in support of Chris, because of apparent recent advice by Labour HQ. […]
Paul Jonson reinstated!
Paul Jonson had been suspended last month by Dudley council after having attended a protest outside the surgery of Ian Austin MP, who in July sent out a tweet stating “Hamas and the Palestinians were responsible for the deaths of 18 Gazans” during the Great Return March in May 2018. Comrade Jonson also published a post […]
Do not cooperate with the ‘Antisemitism Monitoring Centre’!
We call on all Labour Party members to stay well clear of the Jewish Labour Movement’s latest stunt. The JLM, which is the sister party of the Zionist Labor Party in Israel, has written to CLP secretaries, asking them to distribute their “survey” on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party to all local members. Many CLP […]
“They can fuck off”. Report of LAW’s first ever fringe meeting at LP conference
Labour Against the Witchhunt held a successful fringe meeting at the Labour conference. Stan Keable reports “There can be no greater injustice than anti-racists being accused of racism by racists,” the Scouse comedian Alexie Sayle told LAW’s packed fringe meeting on Sunday night. The potential for a “massive transformation” of the Labour Party and society […]
Open letter: No Jennie Formby, we will not be informers!
We, the undersigned, are greatly concerned about recent communication from Labour’s General Secretary Jennie Formby aimed at Facebook groups which have ‘Labour Party’ or ‘Jeremy Corbyn’ in their title (the full letter is below). We are particularly outraged by the following passage which states “posts and conversations with antisemitic or otherwise discriminatory content” should be […]
Statement on the September 4 decision to adopt the full IHRA
The September 4 decision of Labour’s National Executive Committee to back the full IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is a gift to the right in party. The intent of this document is not to define Anti-Semitism – after all, the Oxford English Dictionarymanages that in six words: “Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.” No, its sole purpose is […]
NEC lobby: no to IHRA, yes to freedom of speech!
Labour Against the Witchhunt has been lobbying Labour’s NEC meetings since February, for its three basic aims – rejection of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism (because it conflates anti-Zionismm with anti-Semitism), abolition of Rule 2.1.4.B (which allows party apparatchiks to expel members without due process, and is arbitrarily used against the left), and abolition off […]
Mass lobby on September 4: Say no to IHRA examples!
On September 4, the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party will be discussing the adoption of ALL examples of the definition on Anti-Semitism published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Most of these examples are designed to conflate criticism of Israel with Anti-Semitism. If adopted, they would, for example, ban the description of […]
Momentum drops Pete Willsman – support the comrade!
Pete Willsman, stalwart of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD), is the latest Corbyn supporter in the crosshairs of the right in the Labour Party. Incredibly, in this witch-hunt they are supported by the likes of former left-winger Owen Jones, who calls on people not to vote for Willsman in the forthcoming NEC elections. […]
Muddying the water: LAW statement on Labour’s new Anti-Semitism Code of Conduct
LAW Statement, July 9 2018: Labour’s Anti-Semitism Code of Conduct The Labour Party’s new Anti-Semitism Code of Conduct, issued last week, was clearly intended to put an end to the campaign of false allegations of anti-Semitism. Instead it has achieved the precise opposite. The Code has been the subject of a fierce attack by Zionist […]
Support Stan Keable’s campaign for reinstatement!
Please support Stan Keable’s campaign for reinstatement. Stan, secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt, has been sacked for stating an historically verifiable fact. And now his union (Unison) has let him down too. He has been advised of how much a barrister would cost to represent him at an employment tribunal. Please give generously and […]
LAW statement: Corbyn was wrong to pressurise Ken Livingstone into leaving the Labour Party
It is clear from reports such as John Rentoul in The Independent that Ken Livingstone’s resignation was not voluntary but the result of pressure exerted by Jeremy Corbyn and his close associates. We refer in particular to Shami Chakrabarti’s disgraceful attack on Livingstone on BBC’s Sunday Politics (May 13),when she threatened she would quit the Labour front […]
Mike Cushman: How talking about Zionism can lose you your job
Mike Cushman reports how Stan Keable (LAW secretary) has been sacked by Hammersmith and Fulham Council for a private conversation when he attended the Jewish Voice for Labour Parliament Square rally on 26 March. This article first appeared on Free Speech on Israel. Stan engaged in a discussion with a Zionist during the Parliament Square rally, a […]
LAW statement on the expulsion of Marc Wadsworth
“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, […]
In solidarity with Marc Wadsworth!
Great turnout today at the Labour Party expulsion hearing of anti-racism campaigner Marc Wadsworth outside Church House. Credit to Chris Williamson MP who spoke as a witness on behalf of Marc, while Ruth Smeeth MP was ‘accompanied’ into the hearing by a number of right-wing MPs. Protestors appealed for due process to be applied – […]
Sign this open letter to Jeremy Corbyn and the left on the NEC
As socialist members and Labour Party supporters, we are firm opponents of all forms of racism, fascism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all other kinds of oppression. Many of us have been actively campaigning against them for many years, often alongside you, John McDonnell and other comrades. We know anti-Semitism exists in society and needs to be […]
LAW lobby: NEC members sneak in through the back door
Intrepid opponents of the Labour purge of pro-Corbyn supporters braved freezing weather to be on a lobby of the party’s National Executive Committee today. They included members of Grassroots Black Left, the Labour Representation Committee, Jewish Voice for Labour, Labour Party Marxists and Brighton and Hove Momentum. Organised by Labour Against the Witchhunt (LAW), the […]
LAW welcomes Jon Lansman’s decision to withdraw
March 11 2018 Labour Against the Witchhunt (LAW) welcomes Jon Lansman’s decision to finally listen to his party comrades, including Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, and withdraw as a candidate for the General Secretary post. We are mystified as to why Lansman, who purports to back the greater representation of women at all levels of the Labour Party, ran against Unite’s Jennie Formby in […]
Why we cannot support Jon Lansman’s Labour Party general secretary bid
Some of us are members of Momentum, some have never joined – and some of us left the organisation after January 2017, when its leader Jon Lansman abolished all democratic structures and imposed a new constitution, riding roughshod over the organisation’s members. It should be noted that, as part of this coup, Lansman abolished the […]
Ken Loach: “This witch-hunt is a complete nonsense”
Filmmaker Ken Loach addressed spirited meeting of Labour Against the Witchhunt in London on January 29 More than 70 people crammed into London’s Conway Hall last night (January 29) to discuss the ongoing witch-hunt against the left in the Labour Party and what can be done to stop it. Hundreds of left-wing and pro-Palestinian members […]
LAW’s lobby of the Labour Party NEC
Around 40 supporters (and a few witches) showed up today, January 23, to help us lobby the Labour Party NEC to demand an end to the witch-hunt against left-wing and pro-Palestinian Labour members. Expelled and suspended members (amongst them Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and Tony Greenstein) spoke to NEC members and lots of press.
Launched on October 21 2017, LAW is already celebrating a success
Launched on October 21 2017, LAW is already celebrating a success – pressure from members, Branches and CLPs CLPs led to the reversal of the expulsion of emeritus professor Moshé Machover, one of a long line of socialists and Corbyn supporters expelled or suspended on bogus charges of anti-Semitism. He is now honorary president of Labour […]