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 […]
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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 […]
New poem by Kevin Higgins
2152 after Sophie Hannah It’s 2152 and Cumbria’s declared independence after a campaign during which they blew bits of Princess Eugenie all over Lake Windermere. There’s a free market in carcasses throttled by the latest mutant.On Newsnight Kirsty Wark mutters from her crypt:we may have run out of ambulances,but at least we dodged the bullet that was Corbyn.
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 […]
Why we need a campaign For Free Speech!
The right to free speech, especially on the subject of Israel/Palestine, is coming under immense attack all over the world. – Universities: Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has just threatened to cut the funding of any university that refuses to adopt the ‘working definition of antisemitism’ published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance “by the end […]
Our attitude to the ‘Forde enquiry’ into Labour’s leaked report
Motion agreed by LAW’s conference, July 4 2020 We note: 1) That Keir Starmer set up the ‘Forde enquiry’ to investigate the so-called ‘leaked Labour report’. This was supposed to report back on July 15 2020. 2) That on June 25, the day that Rebecca Long-Bailey was sacked from Labour’s front bench in the latest […]
Future of Labour Against the Witchhunt
Motions agreed at LAW conference July 4 2020 on the future of Labour Against the Witchhunt 1. Submitted by the LAW Steering Committee 1. The anti-socialist witch-hunt is not only about the Labour left. It afflicts the whole of society: workers have been dismissed for speaking against Israel and Zionism; academics are being bullied into […]
NEC elections 2020
Emergency motion agreed at LAW conference, July 4 2020 NEC elections 2020 1. The change of the NEC electoral system from first past the post to single transferable vote is clearly an attack on the left membership. It makes it almost impossible for a full ‘left’ slate to ever win again all nine seats in […]
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 […]
Steering Committee Report for LAW conference, July 4 2020
Please note that information about our current membership figures, details of our funds, decisions taken by the steering committee and other internal matters are only available to LAW members. If you join before midnight on July 2 2020, you may attend conference. Details here. In the last 12 months, we have assisted numerous Labour Party […]
LAW Conference, Saturday July 4 2020, 11am online
All members will have received an invite to register for our Zoom conference. If you have not received it and think you are a paid-up members, please email us: info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org Detailed agenda tbc once we know how many motions we have received. We particular appreciate motions and initiatives around the following questions and issues: How […]
Tribute Acts – timely poem from Kevin Higgins
Each witch hunt is a tribute act to the last. There is always a committee of three. The gravity in the room is such they struggle to manoeuvre the enormity of their serious faces in the door. Except in the TV version, there is hardly ever a microphone. Though they will usually give you […]