Labour Party racism confirmed in Forde Report
JVL Introduction
Where the mainstream media has covered the Forde Report at all, it has focused on the finding of factionalism on both sides and at what they take as confirmation that antisemitism was a serious problem in the Labour Party, especially under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. It has had little to say about other significant findings – that racist attitudes within the Party’s Headquarters were shockingly high and that many Black and Muslim Party members strongly felt that the Party had created a hierarchy of racism, with them at the bottom. We ask where is the compulsory training for candidates on racism in all its forms? This is something that Forde does call for.
Here Taj Ali writes about his own and others’ experience as Labour Party members; on the day the Report was published, – he posted this a twitter thread, which makes sobering reading.
This article was originally published by Tribune on Wed 20 Jul 2022. Read the original here.
The Forde Report Proves Labour’s Racism – And it Hasn’t Gone Away
For many black and Asian members of Labour, the Forde report’s findings of racism in the party are no surprise – but that didn’t stop them being ignored by swathes of the mainstream media.
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One example of an abusive racist remark published in the Forde Report was Diane Abbott being called ‘an angry black woman’.