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Wadsworth’s expulsion and the contemptible treachery of the Labour right
White parliamentarians hounding a black anti-racist and claiming to act on behalf of Jewish people in Britain is outrageous and Kafkaesque, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Deborah Hobson of Grassroots Black Left and Noami Wimborne-Idrissi, Jewish Voice For Labour (right), with Labour party activist Marc Wadsworth in Westminster, London, today

THE expulsion of leading black anti-racist Marc Wadsworth from the Labour Party is utterly contemptible.

The charge of bringing the Labour Party into disrepute merely for criticising a white Labour MP is outrageous enough — Kafkaesque.

Or are they saying he should not have been so uppity?

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