A ‘September Storm’ is coming for Keir Starmer’s purge-happy Labour Party
Following months of Labour Party purges, resistance group Defend the Left! has promised a “September Storm” of protest. The month of action will include meetings, protests, and a “major demonstration at the party’s conference”.
‘McCarthyism’ in the Labour Party
Defend the Left! is spearheading the protests in coordination with groups like Jewish Voice for Labour and Labour In Exile Network. A spokesperson for Defend the Left! said:
What we are seeing in the Labour Party is nothing less than a McCarthy-style purge without regard to democracy or justice. This September we are going to call a halt. We will create a storm of opposition.
Labour recently banned several left-wing groups from the party. The spokesperson explained how Labour is now pursuing members with any links to the proscribed groups:
It’s totally unfair. Often the evidence used against members is just their presence at Zoom meetings held by the groups BEFORE the groups themselves were banned. How can Keir Starmer call himself a lawyer and preside over this blatantly unjust proceeding?
They added:
Since Keir Starmer became leader, we have seen a dramatic intensification of attempts by a right wing faction to hijack the party and drive out the left. But we’re not going to let them succeed. We, the grassroot members, are going to stop them.
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Emergency
The September Storm will begin with an “emergency meeting on 14 September. The recently banned Ken Loach will be addressing it.
A press release from Defend the Left laid out the rest of the month’s activities:
On Saturday 18 September there will be a one day event aiming to unite the left in opposition to the ban, organised by the Don’t Leave, Organise group and supported by key trade unions.
On Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 September Labour members will stage protests in locations across the country, followed by a mass protest in Brighton on Saturday 25 September on the opening day of Labour’s national conference. And there will be a series of events and meetings opposing the purge throughout the period of the conference.
The group’s spokesperson added:
This is not simply an internal Labour Party struggle — this is a battle for democracy. Labour is the biggest political party in Western Europe — we cannot allow it to be stolen from its members by dirty tricks and ruthless chicanery.
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More tantrum than storm.
The slide in to totalitarianism will end as 1945 did……..
Total nonsense.
“Biggest Party in western Europe”?
Not for long. I think Starmer actually wants to ‘lead’ the LibDims.
It’s a pity these people & the whole Labour Party don’t put the same effort into recovering the NHS that Blair/Brown & the Tory Party of Death have destroyed. When accsses to health care will be by paying directly or iby insurance these bastards must take the blame.
I cancelled my direct debit to the Labour Party when Starmer announced his Shadow Cabinet which made it Crystal clear the way he was going. Having voted Labour in every General and local election since 1970 I went Green in 2019. It was 100 years ago when the once mighty Liberal Party was suddenly collapsed, never to rise again and the same fate beckons Labour.