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An Antidote to the EHRC Poison
MIKE CUSHMAN introduces Jewish Voice for Labour’s forensic reply to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's infamous report on Labour's alleged anti-semitism problem
As the US marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, the People’s World Editorial Collective argues that the real legacy of 1776 lies not in official celebrations but in centuries of popular struggles to make democracy a reality for all
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Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
By making it simpler to support workers in struggle, Strike Map’s new Solidarity Fund aims to strengthen strikes when they need it most, write ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
THE publication of the EHRC report on “anti-semitism in the Labour Party” was a seismic event in the history of the party. Despite its undoubted political impact, it contributed little to anyone’s understanding of how the party works, how anti-semitism manifests itself in contemporary Britain or how to combat it or any other form of identity-based hatred.
Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) published a series of commentaries on the shortcomings of the report but also promised an in-depth appraisal of it. That appraisal is now published by Verso as a free e-book How the EHRC Got It So Wrong: anti-semitism and the Labour Party.
As Geoffrey Bindman says in his foreword: “Instead of responding by setting up an inquiry into the way the party was handling, or mishandling, complaints, the commission saddled itself with the needless task of finding illegal conduct; not by those who made the offending statements but by the party itself.
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