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 […]
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. […]
Motion on the expulsion of Marc Wadsworth from the Labour Party, passed on May 14 2018 1. Ecclesall branch (Hallam Sheffield CLP) notes that On April 27 2018 Marc Wadsworth was expelled from the Labour Party for “bringing the party into disrepute”. Ruth Smeeth MP claimed that, at the launch of the Charkrabarti report in June […]
Click here to download all messages of support in a PDF file: from Alexei Sayle, Ken Loach and Chris Williamson MP I stand with Marc Wadsworth. The Labour Party has – on the flimsiest of pretexts – expelled him from the Labour Party. Marc is a veteran activist and anti-racist campaigner. He contributed to the Party through the […]
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, […]
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 […]
this was first published by Labour Party Marxists On March 27, the day after he attended the counter demonstration in Parliament Square, organised by Jewish Voice for Labour, Labour Against the Witchhunt’s secretary Stan Keable was suspended from work by Hammersmith and Fulham council. The suspension letter states that there are “serious allegation(s) which, if […]
Quoted in: Fightback!: Labour’s Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s by Dianne Hayter, page 32. “In 1982, as chairman of the Hornsey constituency party, Jeremy Corbyn signed a membership card for Tariq Ali, a former member of the International Marxist Group, in defiance of Labour’s National Executive Committee. He also campaigned against the expulsion of […]
Labour Against the Witchhunt welcomes the resignation of Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol. He was directly in charge of the unelected and discredited compliance unit, which has purged thousands of pro-Corbyn members from the party. We see his resignation very much as an important symbol and an integral part of our fight to radically […]
“Labour Against the Witchhunt deplores the politically motivated expulsion from the Labour Party of Tony Greenstein (LAW’s vice-chair). It is a blatant example of how the right-wing who oppose Jeremy Corbyn, the democratically elected Labour leader, have cynically weaponised anti-Semitism to attack his supporters. Veteran Black, Jewish and other party members have been targeted as […]
