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 […]
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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 […]