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Claims of anti-semitism gave way to open prejudice and class hatred from the liberal elite when I stood up for socialist politics, writes the RMT’s EDDIE DEMPSEY
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix

I WAS invited to London Young Labour’s Summer 2018 event to present my union’s position against the EU and in favour of Brexit.

I even cancelled a solidarity visit to a picket line in Wigan to do so, so enthused was I by the new spirit in the Labour Party and a new audience prepared to open up debate and allow dissenting views on the neoliberal consensus that has dominated politics for so long.

The night before the event I was smeared as an anti-semite for the crimes of stating my belief that Jeremy Corbyn is not anti-semitic and saying that some of the claims being made were cynically using the despicable crime of anti-semitism to undermine the socialist leadership of the Labour Party.

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