CHRISTMAS 2025 is celebrated under the shadow of the hunger strikers imprisoned in British jails because of their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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The Wadsworth verdict stamps on our right to hold MPs to account
Labour MPs Ruth Smeeth (left), Luciana Berger (centre) and Jess Philllips (right) at a demonstration outside the Labour party disciplinary hearing for Marc Wadsworth in London
LABOUR’S perverse decision to expel black anti-racism campaigner Marc Wadsworth is a watershed moment.
Recent months have seen a resurgence of Establishment attacks on Labour and its leader, resuming a pattern of misinformation and smears that began when Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead the party in 2015.
Corbyn has been attacked for lacking patriotism because he refused to believe everything the Conservatives claimed about the apparent poisoning of Sergei Skripal without seeing some evidence to back it up.
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