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Gagging regime: Keir Starmer
LOCAL Labour branches have been ordered by the party not to discuss investigations into anti-semitism, a related libel settlement and the adoption of a controversial definition of anti-Jewish prejudice.
Labour general security David Evans, who took up the post in May, told constituency parties that the recent Panorama settlement and the Equality and Human Rights Commission reports are “not competent business for discussion by local parties.”
He added that they should not consider motions that “repudiate” the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-semitism.
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG