Based on FSOI/JVL model and passed unanimously by South Cambridgeshire Constituency Party on March 27: “South Cambridgeshire Constituency Labour Party notes that more than 20 months on from the Report of the Chakrabarti Inquiry, disciplinary measures in response to complaints and charges against members have continued to be implemented in an arbitrary manner without consistent […]
Launch of Liverpool LAW, March 22
More than 70 people, including veterans of the city’s labour movement, attended the launch of Liverpool Labour Against the Witchhunt on March 22 in the Quakers’ Meeting House. They came from all of Liverpool’s constituencies and others on Merseyside. Speakers included Bob Walker, one of the Garston Three, expelled from the Labour Party for attending […]
Momentum, don’t expel those witch-hunted by the compliance unit!
Having been expelled from the Labour Party on very spurious grounds and with a clear lack of due process, Tony Greenstein is now being threatened with expulsion from Momentum, too! Find below the email exchange between ‘Team Momentum’ and Tony and, further below, a draft letter you could send in protest to info@peoplesmomentum.com and jon.lansman@peoplesmomentum.com On […]
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 […]
Camden Momentum: Motion on the Witch-hunt
Passed on March 12 This Branch of Momentum group condemns the suspension of Glyn Secker (7 March 2018, lifted 12 March), the expulsion of Tony Greenstein (18 February 2018), the expulsion of Moshe Machover (3 October 2017, rescinded 30 October), the suspension of Jackie Walker (4 May 2016, lifted 27 May, suspended again 30 September […]
March 22: Liverpool LAW meeting with Marc Wadsworth
Liverpool Branch Public Meeting Speaker: Marc Wadsworth (Anti-racist campaigner) 7pm, Thursday March 22 2018 The Quaker Meeting House | 22 School Lane | Liverpool L1 3BT All comrades welcome. Click here to read more about Marc’s case and support his crowdfunding efforts. His expulsion hearing is set for April 24 in London – please come […]
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 […]
When Jeremy Corbyn fought against the witch-hunt in the Labour Party
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 […]
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 […]
Statement on Iain McNicol’s resignation
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 […]
Kevin Higgins: new poem on Tony Greenstein’s expulsion
The poet Kevin Higgins has been suspended from the party for writing this satirical poem about the Blairs. We Are Delighted To Announce for Tony Greenstein The first execution of a man convicted of using inappropriate language – far too many exclamation marks and block capitals – to tell what we realise is ninety nine […]
Statement on the February 18 expulsion of Tony Greenstein from the Labour Party
“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 […]
How you can support LAW’s submission to the Corbyn Review
Background: The so-called Corbyn Review aims to produce a report to the 2018 annual conference in Liverpool. It is not a blue-sky-thinking exercise, however: Submissions invited are limited to answering 32 pre-set questions on six themes with a 250-word-limit on each of the questions. None of these deal with the compliance unit (Disputes) or the fate of […]
January 30: LAW meeting in Birmingham
Over 50 Labour members gathered in Birmingham on January 30 for the city’s launch of LAW. Jackie Walker spoke first and got straight to the point – the witch-hunt is about weakening Corbyn’s position as leader and forcing the next Labour government to the right by removing left activists. She reminded us that the ‘problem’ […]