One of the organisations that organises the hard/far left inside the Labour Party is the long established Labour Representation Committee founded back in 2004. It's current President is John McDonnell and has an irregular journal Labour Briefing (one of two journals claiming that name due to a split in the editorial ranks). It has a number of affiliated organisations including local Labour Party and Trade Union branches.
The LRC also allows the affiliation of non Labour Party organisations providing they do not stand candidates against the Labour Party in elections though why would anyone in Labour want to be influenced by the pro North Korean New Communist Party or the antisemitic Socialist Fight organisations?
The LRC also contains members who have actually been expelled from the Labour Party including the rumbustious Tony Greenstein, Gerry Downing, Stan Keable and Jackie Walker. However with the rise (and decline) of the rival Momentum organisation the LRC has stagnated despite attracting high profile participants to it's on-line meetings including Unison General Secretary candidate Roger McKenzie.
However this years meeting saw the Jo Bird a Candidate for Labours NEC (in the Councillors section) who has previously attracted attention for her antisemitic comments managed insult a whole community by awarding Jeremy Corbyn (the man under whose leadership led to the rise of antisemitism on an unprecedented scale) the title of "Honorary Jew" for the "vilification" he received.
This was a deliberate and malevolent slur to provoke the Jewish community. Given Keir Starmer's stirling efforts in trying to repair the damage done to relations between Britain's Jews and the party under Corbyn this was sheer provocation that cannot be ignored and Jo Bird must be suspended by the party immediately and taken off the ballot. She is not fit to represent any party let alone Labour.
Of course she wasn't the only one to have to continue attacks on the Jewish Community. Graham Bash (the partner of Jackie walker) and editor of Labour Briefing told the AGM that:
“we gave too much ground on anti-Semitism”
Of course Bash being a member of the Quisling Jewish Voice for Labour group will no doubt fall back on his ethnicity to defend his position. The JVL use this expression that they are seen as the "wrong type of Jews" when it is the vast majority of Jews that are seen by the antisemitic left as the "wrong type of Jews". The JVL represents a tiny minority of British Jews and some of them only identify as being Jewish to cause mischief.
The LRC may not be an entryist formation but the presence of other political parties, expelled members and many of the worst the left has to offer puts it beyond the pale. A new reformed modern social democratic Labour Party will have no need for these professional sectarians.
Further reading on the JVL:
The following is an excellent in-depth from JVL Watch which monitors the antics of the JVL.
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