{"id":5698,"date":"2022-09-28T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2022-10-03T21:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:07:18","slug":"britain-labour-criminal-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2022-09-28\/britain-labour-criminal-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Britain’s Labour party became a criminal conspiracy against its members"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Al Jazeera documentary reveals a covert alliance between the Labour right and hardline pro-Israel activists to purge the left as antisemites<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mint Press – 28 September 2022<\/p>\n

For many years, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s supporters have claimed that he, and they, were targeted in a coordinated attack from the right of the party, comprising a majority of Labour MPs as well as senior party staff. The aim was to sabotage Corbyn\u2019s chances of taking power.<\/p>\n

Those allegations were dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory by the British media. But the first independent verification came as early as April 2020, shortly after Corbyn stepped down as leader, with the leak of a cache of internal Labour Party documents. They showed that Labour bureaucrats, responsible to the party\u2019s general secretary Iain McNicol rather than to Corbyn,\u00a0plotted<\/a> to bring about their leader\u2019s downfall, even prioritizing his destruction over winning the closely fought 2017 general election.<\/p>\n

The impression that all was not quite how it seemed was further suggested by the absurd twists and turns<\/a>\u00a0in the logic of a report into Corbyn\u2019s Labour Party published in late 2020 by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). That this politicized, establishment body had agreed to investigate a mainstream political party for racism, directly interfering in the democratic process, was itself unprecedented.<\/p>\n

Next, in July, a much-delayed report from an inquiry commissioned by Corbyn\u2019s successor, Sir Keir Starmer, confirmed the contents of the leaked documents. Despite its careful wording and bogus even-handedness, the Forde Inquiry conceded<\/a> that the Labour right had indeed waged a dirty factional war against Corbyn and the left of the party, weaponizing antisemitism to tar them.<\/p>\n

Now, over the past few days, Al Jazeera has aired a shocking three-part investigation<\/a>, \u201cThe Labour Files\u201d. Running close to four hours in its online format, it is based on even more leaked documents, and reveals the complete sabotage of the party\u2019s democratic processes by the Labour right, including by many of its senior MPs. Those processes were hijacked to carry out purges of the party\u2019s left based in most cases on false accusations, fabrications, misrepresentations and smears.<\/p>\n