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BIRMINGHAM Perry Bar MP Ayoub Khan made an impassioned appeal for unity as he addressed the Your Party founding conference today.
“There is far more that unites than divides us,” he stressed after a conference that witnessed some fiery clashes between delegates.
“Our struggle is about the kind of country we want to become, a country that protects the vulnerable, a country that refuses to pit us against each other, where the truth cannot be erased by those who own the media.”
Mr Khan expressed his disgust at the way politicians had opted to defend the violent racist fan base of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv simply to smear Birmingham residents as anti-semites, in a ploy to discredit him as an MP elected on a platform of Gaza solidarity.
Britain was ripe for a new mass party of the left, he assured his audience.
“For decades the established parties have had every chance to rebuild our public services, every chance to protect the most needy, every opportunity to put people before profit. And time and again they have failed,” he declared.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
JAMES NALTON writes on the bizarre Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE