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Battling the McCarthyite witch hunt is not what Jewish Voice for Labour members joined the party for, but we cannot stand aside
LEAH LEVANE says the hounding of Labour's left-wing Jews by the leadership has reached scandalous proportions
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In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
JEWISH Voice for Labour (JVL) members joined the party to fight for a just society where people could achieve their full potential and contribute their talents and skills.
No-one was prepared for a Corbyn-led party – not Jeremy Corbyn and not the ruling class which launched a relentless attack, escalating after the 2017 election demonstrated wide support for the ideas in the manifesto. But, even though they would not/could not take him on politically, they recovered quickly. Having failed to make the labels “terrorist supporter,” “Czech spy” and “mad Marxist” stick, they found something that did: turning Corbyn’s support for justice and autonomy for Palestine into allegations of widespread anti-semitism.
JVL was necessary to support the policies being developed and to defend the left against the witch hunt, already under way. Although we did not join the party for this fight, this was the struggle to which we had to respond.
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