Sickening jokes

Submitted by AWL on 23 November, 2018 - 10:47
Red London on Stalin

On 13 November, the left Labour website The Clarion put out an appeal against the “culture of lying and harassment... poisoning the environment of the left” promoted by the anonymous “Red London” Facebook page.

New signatories to that statement in the last week include Sean Hoyle, national president of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), and other RMT activists: Marie Harrington, London Transport Women’s Officer; John Leach, London Transport Regional Organiser, etc.

Also Lily Madigan, a well-known activist in Lewisham Deptford CLP; Michael Chessum, known for his work in Another Europe is possible; Pete Firmin, admin secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, and dozens more.

Red London have responded to the statement, and to the longer dissection of some of their doings by Cathy Nugent in Solidarity 485, not by any attempt to dispute evidence, but in ways which confirm the verdict of the statement and of Cathy’s article.

They have tried to “spam” the statement by adding fake signatures. Some of them joined the anti-racist demonstration on 17 November in London waving St George’s flags (this wasn’t an “innocent” football fan thing, but a calculated English nationalist political gesture at a political event).

They have claimed responsibility for the “In Loving Memory of Saddam Hussein” plaque recently found screwed onto a bench on a high street in east London.

Jokes? Sick jokes like that poison and discredit the left. Circulate and sign the statement from The Clarion.

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