Ben Gliniecki recently received a letter of automatic exclusion from the Labour Party officialdom for the ‘crime’ of supporting Socialist Appeal. Here is his reply to the Labour bureaucracy.
It is now 10 years since riots swept across Britain in the wake of the police murder of Mark Duggan. A decade on, all the conditions are being prepared for a new wave of social unrest. The young generation are drawing revolutionary conclusions.
A new parliamentary investigation into racist policing finds that the situation facing black communities is worse today than at the time of the Macpherson report, 22 years ago. To end police violence and racism, we must end capitalism.
In response to the Labour right wing’s move to purge socialists from the party, solidarity motions and statements have come in from across the rank and file of the labour movement. Now the left must mobilise to drive out Starmer and the right.
As the eviction ban ends, renters everywhere are facing uncertainty. One mother’s determined resistance to her own removal shows the way forward. The labour movement must organise to fight against evictions, and for a socialist alternative.
The Tory government has provoked anger amongst police officers by freezing their pay. This reveals the depth of the crisis facing the ruling class, as explosive pressures accumulate within society, and as workers move into struggle.
After years of harassment from the Labour right wing, the local council, and the Tory press, left-wing MP Apsana Begum has been acquitted of all the trumped-up charges levelled at her. Now it is time for her opponents to face justice.
Labour is in a parlous financial state, due to the rightwards shift undertaken by Starmer, and the resultant exodus of members. The right wing are destroying the party, as they seek to appease the establishment. They must be shown the door.
For decades, militant trade union activists have been targeted by the bosses. Now Marxists in the Labour Party will face similar victimisation, as part of Starmer’s purge. The scourge of blacklisting must be fought across the labour movement.
Socialist Appeal, the Marxist voice of Labour and youth, has been expelled from the Labour Party, with the right wing saying we are ‘alien’ and ‘toxic’ to the party’s ‘aims and values’. Rob Sewell answers the lies, smears, and slanders.
Labour’s right-wing dominated NEC has ruled that all candidate selections in the city of Liverpool will come under the control of the national party. This attack on grassroots democracy must be resisted by the whole left of the party.
Join Rob Sewell and Adam Booth to hear about the Labour right’s plan to kick Socialist Appeal supporters out of the Labour party, and why the left must organise to fight back against this direct political attack.