THAT an Irish nationalist MP hosted this year’s The Liberation Movement (TLM) UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination meeting in the House of Commons was politically significant. It symbolised the similar racial discrimination faced by Irish and black migrants who came to Britain as workers in the 20th century.
The event fittingly commemorated the notorious Sharpeville massacre of March 21 1960 in apartheid South Africa at a time when apartheid Israel is involved in a genocide against Palestinians in a Gaza it has all but destroyed, killing more than 33,000 mainly women and children as a result.
In a sad sign of the times, Labour MPs who are TLM supporters had pulled back from booking a room and attending, fearful of repercussions from a shamefully draconian party leadership that has suspended black MPs and other leftwingers, including Diane Abbott and Kate Osamor.
