Labour Party

Entrism – the infiltration of political organisations by competitors – is typically associated with Trotskyism. Large-scale Communist entrism in the British Labour Party has been neglected by historians and reference in the literature is slight and impressionistic. Archival material permits reconstruction of a sustained attempt by the Comintern and British Communists to subvert Labour Party policy.

• Keir Starmer
• Angela Rayner
• Rachel Reeves
• David Lammy
• Bridget Phillipson
• Jess Phillips
• Liz Kendall
• Louise Haigh
• Tony Blair
• Peter Mandelson
• Alistair Darling
• Jeremy Corbyn
• Andrew Murray
• Mike Amesbury
• Ricky Jones
• Dawn Butler
• Tulip Siddiq
• Jack Khan
• Ivor Caplin
• Arthur Scargill
• Tony Benn
• Patricia Hewitt
• Harriet Harman
• Denis Healey
• Walton Newbold
• Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala

The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century, and formed an alliance with the Co-operative Party in 1927. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfare state from 1945 to 1951. Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, Labour again governed from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1979. Cecil Malone worked to promote the affiliation of the Communist Party of Great Britain to the Labour Party, which was under consideration as a tactical matter, urged by Lenin. Malone was particularly keen and stated:

There are still a few differences between the Communist Party and the Labour Party. I am glad to realise, however, that this will soon be settled by affiliation.

Malone came to the attention of Special Branch, whose role it was to combat "Bolshevik subversion". He was frequently mentioned in reports to the cabinet on Revolutionary Organisations in the United Kingdom.

By 1937, 10% of Communist Party (CPGB) members were operating secretly inside British Labour, campaigning to change its policy on affiliation and engineer a Popular Front. In 1947 the Labour Party decided to reprint the Communist Manifesto, with an historical introduction by Harold Laski, to mark the document's centenary. The Labour Party didn't see the Manifesto as just another historical document, as can be seen clearly in the text. It was a document vitally relevant to the policies of the 1945 Labour government..

Initally a member of the anti-communist Reconstruction Society, Adams and Wilson wrote, "his early career contained no hint of his subsequent espousal of the communist cause.". Malone became indoctrinated into Bolshevik Communism whilst on a Union trip from Petrograd to Moscow where he met People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. He later met for an hour with foreign minister Georgii Chicherin. Malone's new friends arranged for him to accompany Red Army leader Leon Trotsky on an inspection of troops at Tula aboard Trotsky's special train. During his visit, detailed in his memoir, Malone toured factories and theatres, power stations and government offices. He found the mission of the Bolshevik government in attempting economic reconstruction to be compelling and emerged from his trip a committed communist. Upon his return to England, Malone became active in the Hands Off Russia campaign, and in November 1919 he officially joined the proto-Communist British Socialist Party (BSP).

In the 1990s, Tony Blair took Labour to the political centre as part of his New Labour project, which governed under Blair and then Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010. In the 2020s, Keir Starmer again took Labour to the centre and has governed since 2024.

The conference hall rings to the standing ovation
The people in red ties rise from the podium
Crazy with power, blinded by vision
The mass-chosen leaders for a brutalised nation.

The origins of what became the Labour Party emerged in the late 19th century. It represented the interests of the labour unions and more generally the growing urban working class. Hundreds of thousands of workers had recently gained voting rights by laws passed in 1867 and 1884. Many different trade unions flourished in the industrial districts. Their leaders used the Methodist revival tradition to find ways to rally the membership. Several small socialist organisations formed and wanted power based on the working class; the most influential was the Fabian Society, which was made up of middle class reformers.

Morgan McSweeney is an Irish political aide who has served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Keir Starmer since October 2024. He was previously the campaign manager for the Labour Party and director of the think tank Labour Together. In June 2024, New Statesman ranked McSweeney first on a list of the most influential progressive figures in the UK, having described him as Starmer's "most trusted aide". In October 2023, The Times stated that "nobody without elected office wields as much power in British politics as McSweeney".

Morgan McSweeney, 46, spent much of Jeremy Corbyn’s reign researching how moderates might regain control of Labour and turn it into a party of government — but failed to declare donations that paid for it..

In an explosive leak with ramifications for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate—whose founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign—show the group plans in writing to “kill Musk’s Twitter” while strengthening ties with the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats like Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has introduced multiple bills to regulate online “misinformation.”.

The documents obtained by The DisInformation Chronicle and Racket show CCDH’s hyperfocus on Musk — “Kill Musk’s Twitter” is the first item in the template of its monthly agenda notes dating back to the early months of this year.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate is the anti-disinformation activist ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and a messaging vehicle for Labour’s neoliberal think tank, Labour Together. Both the CCDH and Labour Together were founded by Morgan McSweeney, a Svengali credited with piloting Starmer’s rise to Downing Street, much as Karl Rove is credited with guiding George W. Bush to the White House.

The CCDH documents carry particular importance because McSweeney’s Labour Together political operatives have been teaching election strategy to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, leading Politico to call Labour and the Democrats “sister parties.”.

CCDH is a partisan registered nonprofit that masquerades as a counter-hate group. It ignores the hate and violent extremism coming from one side, in order to politically empower the left and mislead the public.

Donald Trump has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against 'far-left' Labour helping the Kamala Harris campaign for ‘illegal foreign campaign contributions’ and ‘interference in our elections’. It follows Labour's Head of Operations organising over 100 Labour party staff to head to the US to campaign for Kamala.

Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer appears in Communist spy files after joining a Czechoslovakian work camp at the height of the Cold War. The then 23-year-old was one of 17 mostly students from around the globe in the 1986 scheme behind the Iron Curtain to restore a memorial to victims of a Nazi atrocity. But while the volunteers had noble intentions, unbeknown to them, the event was being monitored by those with a far more sinister motive. Sir Keir's full name, date and place of birth, passport number and family home address are listed among other International Work Camp participants in a dossier discovered by the Mail in the 'Foreign Intelligence Main Directorate – Operative Files' section of the Czechoslovakian secret police archives.

His visa application, including a passport photo and hand-written personal details, are kept in a separate section of the Czech Cold War state Security Service archives. Files marked 'Top Secret' from a previous International Work Camp in Prague in 1982 show it was overseen by the ruthless Czech StB spy agency as part of a wide-ranging and far-reaching 'Active Measure' – a euphemism for black operations and disinformation campaign – to undermine Nato. The secret police also planted a spy posing as a camp 'supervisor' among the foreign students in 1982 to produce a classified dossier profiling the visitors which earmarked some for 'further exploration' who could potentially be of 'use in the future'.

This was at a critical time in the Cold War when hardline Communists were still doing all they could to undermine the West, and the Czechoslovak security service played a key role in this. The Czechoslovak secret service was using these camps to gather information on bright and idealistic young people in the hope that one day they might be of use to them, one way or another..

As well as the now Labour leader, other members of his brigade – who also came from the United States, West Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, France and Czechoslovakia – included one who later worked in a senior role in the European Commission and another who became a partner in a City law firm. Keir had just completed a postgraduate law degree at Oxford University and was about to embark on his barrister training when he arrived for the two-week camp at the Czech-German border town of Cheb on August 16, 1986, according to stamps on the visa. Labour declined to comment. The Socialist Alternatives magazine- the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT)- was established by Sir Keir in the mid 1980’s and carried at least seven articles in his name. In the Marxist publication- described as “the human face of the hard left” by another left-wing magazine Chartist - Starmer called for “a new industrial pluralism that encompasses negotiating and counterposing the interests of the producers with the interests of the consumers/users, the community, women, the unemployed, the environment and ethnic minorities etc". Michel Pablo founder of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT) advocated Entryism (Entryism sui generis) as a long term tactic involving international civil war.

Keir Starmer has said the state will “take back” more “control” of people's lives..

As Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner took the knee in solidarity with “all those opposing anti-black racism”. The then senior opposition MPs adopted the stance synonymous with the Black Lives Matter movement as demonstrators met in Parliament Square to mark George Floyd‘s funeral. It came after Westminster held a minute’s silence for Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis custody has sparked global protests against alledged systemic racism and police brutality. Speaking after the minute’s silence, Sir Keir said of George Floyd: “He must not become just another name. His death must be a catalyst for change”.

The official Downing Street spokesperson revealed that prime minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet did not take part in the minute’s silence. The prime minister on Monday insisted that the UK is “not a racist country”, as he warned that demonstrations had been “subverted by thuggery”. His comments came in response to scuffles with police in central London, which prompted mounted police to charge at protesters, and the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol. Home secretary Priti Patel branded the “utterly disgraceful” action an example of “sheer vandalism and disorder”, and reportedly had a “firm” discussion with Avon and Somerset Police’s chief constable, Andy Marsh (knighted in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours "for services to policing"), over the decision not to intervene.

In January 2023, Emily Maitlis asked Labour Party leader Keir Starmer: "You have to choose now between Davos or Westminster?", Starmer replied: "Davos". Davos refers to the World Economic Forum, where plutocratic heads of multinational corporations, usually with a turnover of at least five billion dollars, influence pathocrats into formulation of their utopian vision. Starmer continued: "Westminster is too constrained. It’s closed and we’re not having meaning. Once you get out of Westminster whether it’s Davos or anywhere else, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future. Westminster is just a tribal shouting place"; effectively admitting, if he becomes prime minister, he’ll be working with the transnational capitalist class, over even parliamentary democracy. Of course, Starmer can’t simply dissolve the limited democracy we have. Instead, he is going to war with key parts of it, in favour of a concentration of power. For this election, Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) didn’t just select candidates. Five of them imposed themselves as candidates. But this war goes beyond the Labour leader and the NEC blocking local members from selecting prospective MPs.

In his book Disordered Minds, Ian Huges states the aim of democracy is to try to protect the mass of people from disordered authoritarian leaders. This is why, as Hughes also points out, authoritarian leaders with psychopathic or narcissistic traits distrust democracy. Once in power, the pathocrat does their utmost to dismantle and discredit democratic institutions, including the independence of institutions and the freedom and legitimacy of the press. Moreover, such leaders are unable to comprehend the principles of democracy, since they regard themselves as superior, and see life as a competitive struggle in which the most ruthless deserve to dominate others..

At the 2021 September Labour conference, Starmer tried to overrule the one member one vote system for electing the party’s leader. The system was introduced in 2014 and led to the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. He tried to replace it with the electoral college system. This reduces the say of members to just one-third of the vote. At the time, Labour MP Zarah Sultana called it an “elitist… stitch up”. But the one member one vote system remains. While members all get one vote, a percentage of MPs must first nominate the leadership candidate. The thing is, Starmer was successful in doubling that from 10% of MPs to 20%. Fast forward to 2024 and Starmer’s team aims to give MPs and only MPs the power to select the leader, if a contest is triggered while Labour is in government. This would be even more of an increase in concentration of power away from the democratic membership and towards MPs. And from Starmer’s comments on Davos, he then wants to reduce the power of MPs further in favour of transnational elites. Instead of joining the Tory Party, Starmer is controlling the labour movement through leading it.

In November 2024, Prime Minister Keir Starmer distanced himself from McTernan following comments he made on GB News while discussing inheritance tax rises in the budget which would affect farmers. The party grandee was asked about planned protests by farmers over Rachel Reeves’ Budget, which will mean they have to pay 20 per cent of tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1m from April 2026. The change is being dubbed the “tractor tax” and has sparked outrage among farmers, who say it will threaten the UK’s food security and lead to the closure of family farms. He said that that family farming is “an industry we can do without" and suggested that if farmers protested "we can do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners”. McTernan was Prime Minister Tony Blair's Director of Political Operations from 2005 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2010 he was special adviser to two Cabinet Ministers in Gordon Brown's Labour Government.

Dekulakization was the Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, or executions of millions of supposed kulaks (wealthy peasants) and their families. To facilitate the expropriations of farmland, the Soviet government announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", portraying kulaks as class enemies of the Soviet Union. This policy, under the guise of "land redistribution" carried out simultaneously with collectivization in the Soviet Union, effectively brought all agriculture and all the labourers in Soviet Russia under state control..

Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies said: “These comments are disgraceful but are sadly indicative of how many people in the Labour Party seem to feel. It’s clear that for many on the left, the anti-farmer agenda is a new frontier in the class war, whereby farmers are being punished for not sharing the metropolitan worldviews of those in London and other cities. I will always stand with our farmers, because like most people in Britain, I know that no farmers means no food.”. Mr Wyn Jones said the UK’s food security would crumble without farmers, asking whether Mr McTernan believes supermarkets or the government are producing food without family farmers. “Be careful my friend, you might be just awakening a sleeping giant, a sleeping giant that is feeding you every day,” he added. And former Boris Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings, whose family owns a farm in Durham, said Mr McTernan’s comments showed Labour is planning to close down all small farmers “because they are a political enemy”.

The Land Reform Movement was a mass movement led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong. Landlords – whose status was theoretically defined through the percentage of income derived from exploitation as opposed to labor – had their land confiscated and they were subjected to mass killing by the CCP and former tenants, with the estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. As early as 1927, Mao Zedong believed that the countryside would be the basis of revolution. Land reform was key for the CCP both to carry out its program of social equality and to extend its control to the countryside.

Arun Advani, a left-wing academic who authored two influential research papers the government have used to defend their tax raid, has been exposed as the man whose research is behind Labour’s family farm tax misery. Mr Advani, an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Warwick and Guardian columnist, has published research calling to cap farmers’ IHT relief via the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax), where he is a director, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he is a research fellow. Both think tanks were cited by Labour ministers James Murray and Daniel Zeichner in their recent defence of their farm tax raid that saw farmers’ relief from IHT capped at £1million although Advani states that the cap for Agricultural and Business relief for farms should be set at a miniscule combined £500,000.

IHT has been nicknamed the ‘suicide charter’ by the farming community, the policy has already resulted in one death, while elderly farmers wonder if they should kill themselves to save their family’s legacy. Keir Starmer insists that the policy will affect a minority of farmers, but the Country and Land Business Association (CLA) disagrees. It says roughly three-quarters of British farms, 70,000, will be affected, while there are just 108,300 farms left in the UK.

In order to prevent excessive fragmentation of farms as a result of that cap, which would reduce productivity, Advani advocates for “the state taking part-ownership of land and becoming the landlord to tenant farmers.” That farmland which went above the cap would presumably be expropriated and rented back to the previous farm owner. The move caused uproar as farmers would be forced to sell chunks of land or machinery to foot massive tax bills when a death occurs, breaking up land that has been passing through families for generations and worsening the UK’s food security. Mr Advani, an urban-dwelling Doctor of Economics with four degrees from Cambridge and UCL, specialises in "inequality, tax compliance, and tax design, with a focus on those with high incomes or wealth.". He is co-chair of the Discover Economics campaign, aiming to diversify study and work in economics.

Starmer lied to pensioners, WASPI women, farmers, business owners, lied to you about energy bills, lied to students, lied to you about Southport. and lied about smashing gangs..

Keir Starmer has ruled out calling a general election after a petition calling for another vote was signed by more than two million people. “I would like there to be another general election,” the petition reads. “I believe the current Labour government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead-up to the last election.”. Asked about the petition on ITV’s This Morning programme on Monday, Sir Keir dismissed calls for an election by saying that it is “not how our system works”. Refusing to acknowledge the publics utter contempt directed toward his government Starmer said: “Look, I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election. “I am not surprised many of them want a re-run.”. The petition comes amid growing backlash over Labour’s budget, which has sparked controversy for hikes to national insurance and extension of inheritance tax to include farms, among other unpopular proposals which aim to fill an alledged spending black hole.

Starmer and his Labour government, realising how unpopular they are, intend to evade democratic accountability by postponing some of next year’s local elections, pushing them out to 2026 or even 2027. Local government minister Jim McMahon said some local elections next year may not go ahead as local authorities could be closed or merged - prompting fury from Reform, which has seen success across a range of council votes, even from a "standing start". Then, LBC revealed that Kent, Essex, Lancashire, Hertfordshire and Sussex were areas in which Labour is considering calling off local elections as part of Angela Rayner's "devolution" drive. A spokesman for the party stated: "It's quite clear these elections are potentially being cancelled because of the rise of Reform. Party chairman Zia Yusuf wrote on social media:

This authoritarian Labour government are a threat to democracy.

McMahon had also said that "at the moment" the elections are going ahead - but said it is "usual when there is a request for a reorganisation that elections don't take place to a council that does not exist". Later, Nigel Farage said: "Cancelling elections in some areas of the country where Reform is gaining momentum is the act of a desperate Government. "They have the audacity to call us a 'threat to democracy' whilst they act like Third World dictators!". Despite her "threat to democracy" warning, Baroness Harman had praised Reform's by-election surges just days ago, pointing to several cases in which the party had taken in "40 per cent support... from a standing start" while Labour's vote share slumped.

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since July 2024. She has been Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. In an interview Rayner has described herself as "quite hardline" on law and order issues n an interview, she said police should "shoot your terrorists and ask questions second" and that she had told her local police force to "beat down the door of the criminals and sort them out and antagonise them.". Rayner condemned the late July and early August riots that started following the Southport stabbing, saying there is "no excuse for thuggery.".

Rayner called then Conservative MP Chris Clarkson "scum" as he was giving a speech in Parliament, and was rebuked by the Parliament's deputy speaker for doing so. Rayner also strongly criticised senior members of the Conservative Party, stating:

We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, absolute pile... of banana republic... Etonian... piece of scum.

Rayner later apologised for her comments in light of the murder of Conservative MP David Amess the following month. Rayner was the subject of a report in The Mail on Sunday, by Glen Owen, in which it was alleged that she had tried to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs in a similar manner to Sharon Stone in a scene from the 1992 film Basic Instinct. During the Labour Party freebies controversy in September 2024, the Conservative Party referred Rayner to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, claiming that her "failure to properly register" the use of Waheed Alli, Baron Alli's $2.5 million New York apartment may have breached the House of Commons' code of conduct. Ali had given Rayner gifts worth £3,550 of clothes in June 2024. Rayner later announced she would no longer accept clothes from donors. Lord Alli also donated thousands of pounds' worth of suits and glasses to Sir Keir Starmer, and allowed Ms Rayner to stay in his plush New York apartment while on holiday.

Britons living along the frontline of Labour’s “war on rural England” have vowed to protect the precious Green Belt from Housing Secretary Angela Rayner. Sir Keir Starmer and his Deputy Prime Minister unveiled a complete overhaul of planning rules last week, with the proposals emerging as part of plans to build 1.5 million homes. Labour cabient has set a target to build 370,000 homes across England every year. Local residents from the Cornish town of Bodmin are already opposing plans to build 540 new houses on Halgavor Moor, which is a floodplain on the outskirts of the town. Cornwall councillor Jenny Cruse told MailOnline:

Angela Rayner is mad if she thinks this will work, she hasn't got a clue. What they are proposing isn't democratic, it doesn't align with our local plan. 'I can't believe how worried and stressed people are about this, we are being totally disregarded. [..] People really care about our area but I don't think Angela Rayner even knows where Cornwall is. [..] This is a Marxist plot and I can't believe we have sleepwalked into this. It's not about being a Nimby, it's that everything they are doing is flying in the face of democracy..

In 2017 it was announced that almost half of new homes built in the next five years will go to migrants, according to government stats. An extra 5.3million new properties could be needed to house the growing population - with 2.4million of those going to migrants, stated the Department for Communities and Local Government. Soaring immigration means Britain will have to house up to 243,000 new households each year for the next 22 years, according to government statistics. Lord Bourne said: "Net ­migration accounts for an estimated 45 per cent of this growth.". The figures were published after a question by Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of think tank Migration Watch. The group claims at least 300 homes a day will need to be built just to house new arrivals.

And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over..

Angela Rayner has continued Labour's love-bombing of Donald Trump's incoming White House team by speaking with US vice president-elect JD Vance. The Deputy Prime Minister revealed she and Mr Vance, a self-proclaimed 'hillbilly', discussed their 'plans for the future' and how they would be 'working together'. It was an effort by senior Labour ministers to fix relations with the new US administration having previously been publicly critical of Mr Trump. During the Covid pandemic, Ms Rayner labelled Mr Trump an 'absolute buffoon' and, when he lost the 2020 election, said she was 'so happy to see the back of Donald Trump'. Foreign Secretary David Lammy is also under pressure for hurling insults at Mr Trump during his first term in the White House. He once branded the president-elect 'a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser'.

Rachel Reeves

Rachel Jane Reeves is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2024. She previously held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2010 and 2015 and from 2020 to 2024. Before announcing changes to Britain’s tax system in her first budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves redecorated her own digs. The headline change was swapping a portrait of Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor, with one of Ellen Wilkinson – known as “Red Ellen”.

Red Ellen was both a socialist and a feminist. At times, she described herself as a revolutionary. She was a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, though kept her membership of the Labour party throughout her political career. She met with Lenin and Trotsky, and visited Gandhi during his imprisonment.

David Lammy

David Lindon Lammy is a politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000. Lammy is a supporter of Israel. In September 2024, he described himself as a "liberal, progressive Zionist".

Lammy wrote in a Substack post in September 2024 that "Azerbaijan has been able to liberate territory it lost in the early 1990s" in reference to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in the exodus of the Armenian population. US congressman Brad Sherman said the remarks were “a stain on UK foreign policy” and accused Lammy of having “endorsed ethnic cleansing”.

Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities since July 2024.

Our inheritance is bleak, our challenges vast, our ambition resolute: to use the power of government to build a country where children come first.

Children in the Soviet Union held a special place in the hearts of citizens and the Party. They represented not only the innocence of youth, but also the promise of the socialist future; in order for the international Marxist Revolution to succeed, the youth had to be treated well and educated politically.

Communist authorities took many routes to achieve this goal. Primarily, the Communist Party fostered a cult of childhood, much like Stalin’s cult of personality, which idealized Soviet childhood. The Communist Party formalized this cult through youth organisations such as the Komsomol, Young Pioneers, and Little Octobrists.

NASUWT teachers’ union, representing approximately 280,000 members across the UK, urged the review to “embed anti-racist and decolonised approaches” within the curriculum and recommended adopting “inclusive curricula that reflect diverse authors, cultures, and perspectives.”.

The visionary minister has already been branded the "minister of Indoctrination" as plans are announced by the Labour Party to diversify Britain's National curriculum. It will be mandatory to follow the new curriculum in all state schools, including academies that were previously free to opt out. The Department for Education (DfE) in the UK has outlined clear objectives for its planned curriculum reform. Specifically, the DfE intends for the new curriculum to better represent the diverse makeup of British society, which includes acknowledging and integrating the different cultures, histories and perspectives that exist within the country. The suggestions submitted to the review by unions and other teaching groups includes how to “decolonise” subjects which have been branded too “monocultural”. Announced in July, the review is being led by Prof Becky Francis, a feminist professor specialising in educational inequalities, who started a call for evidence in November urging teaching experts to offer proposals on achieving the aims of the curriculum overhaul.

Jess Phillips

Jessica Rose Phillips is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024. In October 2024, Phillips rejected Oldham Council's request for an independent public inquiry into historic child abuse by grooming gangs, favouring a locally-run inquiry instead, which she argued held greater legitimacy based on similar approaches in other areas. In January 2025, the decision was criticised by the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, saying that a national inquiry was "long overdue". Elon Musk posted on X that the decision was "disgraceful" and that she "deserves to be in prison" and suggested the rejection was to shield the prime minister, Keir Starmer, from blame due to him leading the Crown Prosecution Service when the abuse occurred. Musk claimed Phillips is a "rape genocide apologist".

Phillips was criticised on social media after she mocked the Conservative MP Philip Davies for trying to get a debate about International Men's Day. He cited men's issues like increasing male suicides, lower life expectancy relative to women, male victims of domestic violence, low educational achievement by working-class white boys and male experience of child custody cases. Phillips openly laughed and pulled faces while Davies spoke, and then stated that: "You'll have to excuse me for laughing. As the only woman on this committee, it seems like every day to me is International Men's Day.

In June 2022, an independent review into child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester found that child sex abuse victims were failed by Greater Manchester Police and the council itself. The report revealed that Shabir Ahmed, subsequently convicted as a ringleader of a Muslim grooming gang, had been employed by Oldham Council as a welfare rights officer and seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre. The review found that "children had been failed by the agencies that were meant to protect them because child protection procedures had not been properly followed". Phillips, in response, argued for local inquiries, stating that it was for Oldham Council to decide on their approach and manage an inquiry into local child sexual abuse independently, and refused to fund it, despite the Council itself writing twice to Phillips that it wanted Philip's department's backing. 364 MPs have voted against having a national inquiry into the grooming gang scandal. No Labour, Lib Dem or Green MP voted in favour of the amendment. In order to prevent the amendment, the Labour Party whipped their MPs to vote against the inquiry. During the parliamentary discussions, MPs mocked, shamed and blasted the Reform MP, Rupert Lowe, for speaking out against the grooming gangs.

Liz Kendall

Liz Kendall is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010. Kendall joined the Labour Party in 1992 and, after graduating from Cambridge, worked at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in the area of child development and early years learning. As a Cabinet Minister Kendall axed pensioners' winter fuel payments, her own £350-a-month energy bills are paid by the taxpayer – while she lives in a £4 million London mansion. Liz Kendall has been branded a hypocrite for removing the payment for ten million pensioners while bills at her second home are being met from the public purse.

This revelation will be a kick in the teeth for the 10 million pensioners facing choosing between heating and eating this Christmas because of Labour and Liz Kendall's political choice to cut the winter fuel payment. While Liz Kendall is living a life of luxury the country is facing real life consequences of Labour's ill-thought-out decisions. In four short months this Labour Government have made it clear they do not have the British people's best interests at heart.

44,000 terminally ill pensioners will lose their Winter Fuel Payment under new UK governemnt eligibility criteria. More than 1 in 5 of all people are dying in fuel poverty - including 110,000 pensioners..

The Work and Pensions Secretary's main base is a four-bedroom property in Notting Hill, West London, which she shares with her partner, an Old Etonian investment banker. But she is allowed to claim costs for the second property she rents in her Leicester West constituency. The most recent documents held by the Commons show she claimed a total of £3,810 in energy costs between April 2023 and July this year, with the largest monthly bills totalling £352. Ms Kendall's decision to axe the annual winter fuel payment of between £100 and £300 for all but the poorest pensioners will force 100,000 people into poverty by 2027 according to her own department's forecasts. The Government announced in July that access to winter fuel payments would be restricted to people claiming pension credit, with the aim of saving £1.5 billion a year. Of the 11.4 million pensioners previously eligible, only 1.5 million meet the new criteria.

Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood is a Labour politician and barrister who has been serving as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Ladywood (replacing Clare Short) since 2010. Her parents are of Pakistani descent with roots in Mirpur, Kashmir. Her father became chair of the local Labour party, and as a teenager, Mahmood helped him with campaigning in local elections. Along with Rushanara Ali and Yasmin Qureshi, Mahmood became one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs, she is also first Muslim and second female Lord Chancellor in history. A week after her appointment, she announced measures intended to decrease prison overcrowding, describing the situation in prisons as a ticking "time bomb" and saying that prisons were on the "point of collapse". Under her plans, some prisoners would be released after serving 40% of their sentences in England and Wales, rather than the 50% announced previously in October 2023.

One of the first theorists of communism William Weitling urged installing communism by physical force with the help of a 40,000-strong army of ex-convicts. A prelapsarian community of goods, fellowship, and societal harmony would then ensue, directed by Weitling himself..

She stated that she expected that the number of prisoners to be released in September 2024 would be "in the low thousands", with further releases over the following 18 months with updates in parliament every three months. This included 37 who were not eligible for early release. At least one is suspected to have gone on to offend again. Following the 2024 United Kingdom riots, Mahmood pledged that "the full force of the law [would] be brought against" the rioters (mostly white working class people angered by the child killings of alledged Islamic "ricin" terrorist Axel Rudakubana), and those inciting them. She also remarked that the volume of cases relating to the riots would affect the UK's justice system for years. In an article for the Mail former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick stated "Foreign rapists, drug dealers and fraudsters are being given a free pass in a system which, I can only conclude, is rigged against the British people". Statistics show foreign criminals who avoided deportation committed a staggering 10,000 offences in a single year.

Louise Haigh

Louise Margaret Haigh, a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Transport from July 2024 until November 2024, when she resigned after admitting to being convicted of filing a false police report. Then Transport Secretary Louise Haigh had admitted pleading guilty to a criminal offence relating to a police investigation over a mobile phone she claimed was stolen. In a statement, Haigh said she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out in 2013 but later found it had not been taken. She said it was a "genuine mistake" but had been advised by a lawyer "not to comment" during a police interview. The police then referred the case to the Crown Prosecution Service, she said. She said she pleaded guilty to making a false report to police at magistrates' court six months before becoming an MP in the 2015 election, and received a discharge - the "lowest possible outcome". A discharge is a type of sentence given to someone who is guilty of an offence but where the court decides not to impose a significant punishment.

After Keir Starmer became Leader of the Opposition following the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, Haigh joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In the November 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, she became the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Haigh was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport in the Starmer ministry. When Haigh began working in Parliament she was a Unite shop steward and volunteered as a special constable in the Metropolitan Special Constabulary from 2009 to 2011. Haigh was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. On 25 April 2024, Haigh revealed Labour's plans for the renationalisation of British rail, pledging to do this in the first term of a Labour government.

Tony Blair

Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Blair cited Deutscher’s Trotsky trilogy (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast) as one of his favourite works. In a 1982 letter to Michael Foot, unearthed in 2006, Blair wrote:

Like many middle class people I came to Socialism through Marxism (to be more specific through Deutscher’s biography of Trotsky).

Tony Blair has said that he “toyed with Marxism” as a young man after being inspired by a biography of Leon Trotsky that detailed “extraordinary causes and injustices”. The former prime minister, who rebranded his party “New Labour” (an adaptation drawn from Eurocommunism) in the belief it would be most electable as a centre-ground party, said yes when asked in a BBC interview if he was “briefly a Trot”.

Here’s this guy Trotsky who was so inspired by all of this that he went out to create a Russian revolution and changed the world. I think it’s a very odd thing – just literally it was like a light going on,.

In contrast to his later centrism, Blair made it clear in a letter he wrote to Labour leader Michael Foot in July 1982 (published in 2006) that he had "come to Socialism through Marxism" and considered himself on the left. Blair went on a trip to Moscow to watch a performance of the War and Peace opera with Vladimir Putin, while he was the acting president of Russia. This meeting was criticised by groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

In 2018, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, said there was "significant regret" over this trip, which helped Putin rise to power. Dearlove also alleged that in 2000, a KGB officer approached him, seeking Britain's help in boosting Putin's political profile, and this was why Blair met Putin in Russia. Blair also hosted Putin in London in April 2000, despite hesitation towards Putin from other world leaders, and opposition from human rights groups over atrocities committed in Chechnya.

Peter Mandelson

Peter Mandelson, dubbed the "Prince of Darkness", joined the Young Communist League, rather than Labour, in protest at Harold Wilson’s support for the Vietnam war. The future business secretary attended a youth conference in Cuba (a visit recorded by the British intelligence services) and sold the Morning Star outside Kilburn tube station. Mandelson was reported to have maintained private contacts over several years with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, most recently on holiday in August 2008 on Deripaska's yacht at Taverna Agni on the Greek island of Corfu. News of the contacts sparked criticism because, as European Union Trade Commissioner, Mandelson had been responsible for two decisions to cut aluminium tariffs that had benefited Deripaska's United Company Rusal.

While Mandelson was on a ministerial visit to Moscow, it was alleged in the British press that Valery Pechenkin, the head of security at Deripaska's company Basic Element, had organised a swift entry visa for Mandelson when he turned up in Moscow to visit Deripaska in 2005. It was also reported that Mandelson had strong ties to Russian conglomerate Sistema. n 2019, UK's Channel 4 aired an episode of Dispatches in which a source close to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed that Peter Mandelson (while serving as a UK Cabinet Minister) made a phone call to Epstein in order to set up a meeting with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan. In June 2023, an internal JPMorgan report from 2019, filed to a New York court, found that "Jeffrey Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government".

The bank’s probe — codenamed Project Jeep, and commissioned to shed light on JPMorgan’s 15-year relationship with Epstein — refers to various meetings and conversations between Epstein and Mandelson. It suggested that when he was the UK business secretary, Mandelson stayed at Epsteins townhouse in Manhattan, whilst the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Mandelson was a pivotal figure in British politics as co-architect of election-winning "New Labour" alongside Tony Blair. Even when behind bars, Epstein was in regular contact with many of his contacts. In emals reffered to in the JP Morgan report, Epstien writes: "Peter will be staying at 71st over weekend, do you want to organize either you, or you and Jamie, quiertly, up to you". In 2014 Mandelson agreed to be a "founding citizen" of the TerraMar Project, a non-profit ocean conservation group founded by Ghislaine Maxwell.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed Peter Mandelson as the new UK Ambassador to the United States, despite his controversial past, which includes two resignations (once over accusations of using his position to influence a passport application and the other over not declaring a loan in the Register of Members' Interests) from government positions. Mandelson was appointed as a Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office, where his job was to co-ordinate within government. A few months later, he also acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome, after Blair decided to go ahead with the project despite the opposition of most of the cabinet (including the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport who had been running it).

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under prime minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2015.Following the 1997 general election, he entered Cabinet as the chief secretary to the Treasury.

In 1998, he was appointed Secretary of State for Social Security. Darling, known as the bushy-bearded ringleader at a Loony Left council was a supporter of the International Marxist Group, the sect to which soixante huitard Tariq Ali belonged. “When I first met him [Darling] 35 years ago,” George Galloway once recalled:

Darling was pressing Trotskyite tracts on bewildered railwaymen at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. He was a supporter of the International Marxist Group, whose publication was entitled the Black Dwarf. Later, in preparation for his current role he became the treasurer of what was always termed the rebel Lothian Regional Council.).

One of the key objectives of the International Marxist Group was the nationalisation of the British banking system as a first step towards full-blown Communism. I would have called for total nationalisation of the banks,' says Bill Speirs, one old colleague who used to lead the Scottish TUC as well as the Scottish Labour Party. 'That's what Alistair would have called for in the old days.'. Darling admitted to smoking cannabis in his youth. He enjoyed listening to Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Leonard Cohen and The Killers.

He was a Trotskyist and played the part with his backside sticking out of his jeans and sandals on bare feet, long hair and a beard. He lived in cloud cuckoo land, always talking about the kind of industrial action people should be taking. He didn't seem to realise that people had to pay their rent and buy food, and that a week without a wage would put them in Queer Street..

Darling was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the confidential personal details of over 25 million British citizens went missing while being sent from his department to the National Audit Office. A former Scotland Yard detective stated that with the current rate of £2.50 per person's details this data could have been sold for £60,000,000. The acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable, put the value at £1.5 billion, or £60 per identity. Following the defeat of the Labour Party at the 2010 general election, Darling announced that he intended to leave frontbench politics.

Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. Corbyn was suspended from the party in 2020. In May 2024, after the 2024 general election had been called, Corbyn was not allowed to stand as a Labour candidate for his constituency, and subsequently announced he would stand as an independent candidate for Islington North; he was then expelled from Labour.

Former Czechoslovak spy Jan Dymic, now known as Jan Sarkocy (expelled from Britain in 1989) claimed Jeremy Corbyn ("COB" was Jeremy Corbyn's codename) was a paid informer for the country's communist era secret police, the StB. Although experts examining Communist-era files from the intelligence agency of Czechoslovakia state they provide no evidence that Jeremy Corbyn was ever a spy or agent of influence, he was most certainly a person of interest.

In a Facebook post in 2012, Corbyn offered his backing to Los Angeles-based street artist Mear One, whose mural, featuring several known antisemitic tropes, was due to be removed after complaints. Mear One said on his Facebook page: “Tomorrow they want to buff my mural Freedom of Expression. London Calling, Public art.” Corbyn replied: “Why? You are in good company. Rockerfeller destroyed Diego Viera’s mural because it includes a picture of Lenin.”.

“In 2012, Jeremy was responding to concerns about the removal of public art on the grounds of freedom of speech,” said a statement released by the Labour party on Friday. “However, the mural was offensive, used antisemitic imagery, which has no place in our society, and it is right that it was removed.”. Labour MP Luciana Berger raised the issue with Corbyn’s office after screenshots of the Facebook post emerged. She said on Friday afternoon that she was not satisfied with the statement issued by the Labour press office.

Corbyn has been accused of failing to crack down on a series of cases of antisemitism. He recently admitted being a member of a closed Facebook group called Palestine Live, in which a number of antisemitic posts appeared – though he did not join in the conversations and left the group in 2015. Labour peer and former Ed Miliband adviser Stewart Wood said: “The German Social Democrats had an expression in the 1890s: ‘antisemitism is the socialism of fools’. Sadly, Labour’s leadership now faces the challenge of having to convince our party and country that they will not tolerate those who confuse the two.”.

In the July 1982 edition of Briefing, Corbyn opposed expulsions of the Trotskyist and entryist group Militant, saying that "If expulsions are in order for Militant, they should apply to us too." In the same year, he was the "provisional convener" of "Defeat the Witch-Hunt Campaign", based at Corbyn's then address.

• November 1984: Invited Gerry Adams to Westminster just after the IRA's Brighton Bombing.
• 1985: Voted in Parliament against the Anglo-Irish agreement, the first step in the pace process.
• June 1986: Arrested outside Old Bailey in demo against "show trial" of IRA terrorists.
• May 1987: Stood in minute's silence for eight IRA terrorists shot dead by SAS in Co Armagh.
• October 1989: Invited Gerry Adams to speak at a fringe meeting at Labour Party conference in Brighton.
• 1996: Again invited Adams to Parliament to launch the ex-IRA man's autobiography.
• 2009: Calls terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah "friends" at Stop The War rally.
• May 2011: Calls killing of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden "a tragedy".
• Feburary 2015: Shares platform with representative of Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Iranian-backed militia killed 70 British soldiers in Iraq.
• August 2016: Interviewed on BBC Ratio Ulster, refuses five times to condemn IRA violence during the Troubles.
• May 2016: Vows to continue talking to terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah.
• May 2017: Again refuses five times to condemn IRA killers. TV interviewer Sophy Ridge: "You don't believe you did anything wrong and have nothing to apologise for? Corbyn: "I represent a constituency that had many people who had been ciminalised".

The Metropolitan Police's Special Branch monitored Corbyn for two decades, until the early 2000s, as he was "deemed to be a subversive". According to the Labour Party, "The Security Services kept files on many peace and Labour movement campaigners at the time, including anti-Apartheid activists and trade unionists".

I'm happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland.

A longstanding supporter of a united Ireland, in the 1980s Corbyn met Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams a number of times. Corbyn consistently stated that he maintained links with Sinn Fein in order to work for a resolution to the armed conflict. According to The Sunday Times, Corbyn was involved in over 72 events connected with Sinn Féin or other pro-republican groups during the period of the IRA's paramilitary campaign. Corbyn met Adams at the 1983 and 1989 Labour conferences (facilitated by pro-IRA Red Action, the group enthusiastically espouses the use of violence) and in 1983 at Westminster, along with a number of other Labour MPs.

In 1984, Corbyn and Ken Livingstone invited Adams, two convicted IRA volunteers and other members of Sinn Féin to Westminster. He was criticised by the Labour Party leadership for the meeting, which took place two weeks after the IRA's bombing of the Conservative Party leadership that killed five people. In the early 1990s, MI5 opened a file on Corbyn to monitor his links to the IRA. In 2017, Corbyn said that he had "never met the IRA", although Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott (In the late 1970s, Corbyn had a brief relationship with Labour MP Diane Abbott) later clarified that although he had met members of the IRA, "he met with them in their capacity as activists in Sinn Fein".

During the campaign for the upcoming general elections, Corbyn was accused by the Hindu Council UK of promoting anti-Hindu sentiments following his disparaging comments on the caste system and his condemnation of the Hindu-right wing Bharatiya Janata Party led Indian government's revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Many Hindus living in the UK saw Corbyn's attitude towards Hindus to be heavily influenced by Pakistani Muslim leaders of his party, with whom he shared a common pro-Palestinian stance.

Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray, is a British trade union and Labour Party official and activist. Murray was seconded from Unite the Union to Labour headquarters for the 2017 United Kingdom general election, subsequently becoming an adviser to Jeremy Corbyn from 2018 to 2020. Born into an aristocratic Scottish family, Murray began his career as a journalist and later became a senior official for various trade unions. Murray was chair of the Stop the War Coalition from its formation in 2001 until June 2011 and again from September 2015 to 2016. After forty years in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and then the Communist Party of Britain, he joined Labour towards the end of 2016. Murray is a contributor to the Morning Star.

After working as a messenger at Reader's Digest and a copy boy for the International Herald Tribune, he undertook journalism training at the Sussex Express. Murray was appointed as a parliamentary lobby correspondent at the age of 19. In this post, he "[marched] with a million Leningraders to mark the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1977" and was reportedly the first journalist at the scene when Airey Neave was assassinated in 1979 by the Irish National Liberation Army. He was also a Morning Star journalist, a publication to which he still contributes, and worked for the Soviet RIA Novosti news agency. Until 2013, he was an occasional contributor to The Guardian.

In short, Mr Murray believes that British communists in the 1930s were justified in backing the Great Terror, the Moscow Trials and the Ukraine famine. Mr Murray predictably supports the most nightmarish totalitarian state in the modern world..

Murray joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1976, aged 18, and became associated with its Straight Left faction. Murray's allies during the period have been described by Francis Beckett as "more extreme than most of the Stalinists I knew. The Stalinists were known as tankies, but Murray's lot were super-tankies". Murray served on the Communist Party of Britain's executive committee from 2000 to 2004, and was an advocate of the party supporting the Respect Coalition in the European and municipal elections that year. He told John Harris in 2015: "Communism still represents, in my view, a society worth working towards – albeit not by the methods of the 20th century, which failed". In 2014, he co-founded Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine, which organised protests outside London's Ukrainian embassy against the new government in Ukraine.

Murray's ex-wife Susan Michie made a £14,000 donation to Labour under Corbyn's leadership.

From 1981 to 1997 Andrew Murray was married to Susan Michie, she is a British academic, clinical psychologist, and professor of health psychology, director of The Centre for Behaviour Change and head of The Health Psychology Research Group, all at University College London. In 2022, she was appointed Chair of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health (advising the WHO on how to increase adherence to vaccination campaigns). Michie dubbed 'Stalin's nanny' is also an advisor to the British Government via the SAGE advisory group. Michie is a member of the Communist Party of Britain and was also a member of its predecessor, the Communist Party of Great Britain. In March 2018, she spoke at a public meeting saying that communists should be "working full tilt" for the election of Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.

Mike Amesbury

Michael Lee Amesbury is a British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runcorn and Helsby, previously Weaver Vale, since 2017. Amesbury joined the Labour Party as a 17-year-old after moving with his family to Yorkshire. He served as a Regional Officer and Fundraising and Events Manager for Labour and was later elected to the party's National Policy Forum (NPF), the policymaking arm of the Labour Party. He campaigned for 'remain' in the 2016 EU membership referendum. On 26 October 2024, Amesbury was filmed confronting a man who was lying on the road and shouted: "You won’t ever threaten me again, will you?

An assault had been on reported to police from Main Street, in Frodsham at 2:48am but yet no arrests had currently been made days later. Cheshire Police confirmed it was looking into the matter. In a statement, Mr Amesbury said:

Last night, I was involved in an incident that took place after I felt threatened on the street following an evening out with friends. This morning, I contacted Cheshire Police myself to report what happened during this incident. I will not be making further public comment but will, of course, cooperate with any inquiries if required by Cheshire Police. I remain fully committed to working hard for the people of Runcorn and Helsby, and am determined to remain an open and accessible MP for our community..

The altercation is understood to have taken place hours after a community safety meeting with police. John Roberts, owner of a taxi company in Main Street, Frodsham, said footage he had seen showed a punch being thrown and a man then lying on the ground.

In March 2019, Amesbury apologised for having shared an antisemitic caricature on Facebook in 2013, stating “I apologise unreservedly for this terrible error. I genuinely don’t recall sharing this image and I’m mortified that I did so. This appalling image image contains an antisemitic caricature and a reference to the ‘illuminati’ conspiracy theory. I would never have intentionally shared antisemitic tropes and I am sincerely sorry that I did”.

At his £685,000, five-bedroom detached home, his wife Amanda, 50, told reporters to 'p*** off'. Locals in his Runcorn and Helsby constituency aired their disgust at the video. Resident Mike Haller, 35, said: 'If a member of the public punched someone repeatedly while on the floor, I'm sure they would be in a police cell by now.

Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick told the Mail: 'Labour said they'd smash the gangs - instead it looks like they're smashing their constituents instead. 'There is no way you can remain an MP if you're beating up constituents after a night out.' . The MP was suspended from the Labour Party and is now the independent MP for Runcorn and Helsby. Cheshire Police said the 55-year-old will appear at a magistrates court at a later date to face the assault charge.

In a statement, Mr Amesbury said: "I have today been summonsed to court to face a charge of common assault following an incident in Frodsham last month, which was deeply regrettable.

In a statement, police said the charge "relates to reports of an assault on a 45-year-old man on Main Street, Frodsham, which was reported to police at 2.48am on Saturday 26 October". Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's special crime division, said: "Following a review of the evidence provided by Cheshire Police, we have authorised a charge of common assault against Mike Amesbury MP, 55.

Ricky Jones

Suspended Labour councillor is arrested over video showing him urging protesters to cut the throats of "Nazi fascists" at a counter anti-immigration demonstration. A suspended Labour councillor (also an organiser for the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) union and volunteer leader of Scouts and Sea Cadets) has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging murder after a video emerged in which he appeared to call for anti mass migration protesters’ throats to be cut. Ricky Jones, who was a councillor in Dartford, Kent from 2019-2024, was filmed making the call at a counter-demonstration in Walthamstow on Wednesday evening. He has also been arrested for an offence under the Public Order Act following the incident on Wednesday evening, the Metropolitan police said.

Cultural Marxism Eric Fromm from blamed the rise in Nazism for the failure of Marxism; thereafter almost anybody critical of Marxism were called out as Nazis".

Amnesty International was contacted for comment, and released the following statement:

We appreciate you taking time to write in and raise your concerns. Members and supporters of Amnesty UK attended the mass rally in Walthamstow. The activist in the video has made clear to us that they were distracted and hadn’t heard the speaker’s comments when they applauded generally with the crowd. The speaker at the event is not affiliated with Amnesty and we strongly oppose violence and any kind of hateful speech. I can, also, confirm that your comments have been logged in accordance with our Feedback Policy.

The orange hi-vis vest wearing woman controlling access to the microphone is know as Jo Cee on X social media platform. Her profile picture shows her covering half of her mouth with a Socialist Worker paper.

In a statement on X, in which a link to the original video was given, the force said: “Officers have arrested a man aged in his 50s at an address in south-east London.

He was held on suspicion of encouraging murder and for an offence under the Public Order Act. He is in custody at a south London police station.

Jones was among thousands of protesters in east London who took to the streets campaigning against protests against mass migration. A few protesters held placards that read: “Smash fascism and racism by any means necessary.”.

Ricky Jones was wearing a Hugo Boss T-shirt as he entered no pleas during an appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday. Because he is yet to enter a plea, court proceedings are likely to take longer than some of those linked to protesters elsewhere in the UK - where speedy guilty pleas by those behind scenes of rioting have allowed judges to hand out quick sentences.

The following audio is from a Labour Party podcast interviewing Jones. The podcast originally twenty minutes long has been broken down into three thirty second segments.

Jones uses "glass celling" metaphor, originally coined by Marxian Feminist Marilyn Loden during her speech in 1978. Israeli Loden focused on employee diversity in the workforce. Addressing Jones in court, deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram said: 'It is alleged that using a microphone you addressed a crowd at an anti-fascist protest.

'Talking about others you described as "disgusting Nazi fascists", you said "we need to cut their throats and get rid of them".

'The Crown says that those words were capable of encouraging others to commit acts of serious violence, and further that you believed that your words would encourage violence against others.'

Jones spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. The proceedings were watched by members of his family. Having entered no pleas, he was remanded in custody to next appear at Inner London Crown Court on September 6. At the hearing Jones was been released on bail ahead of his trial in January. Unlike Peter Lynch he'll be home for Xmas.

Dawn Butler

Dawn Petula Butler is a British Labour Party politician who is Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East. She previously served as MP for Brent Central (2015–2024) and Brent South (2005–2010). In July 2020, Butler was forced to close her constituency office due to increased costs of maintaining premises, and alleged escalating racist threats towards her and her staff, which increased following an article she wrote defending Black Lives Matter protests in the UK.

After the result of the Conservative Party leadership election Keir Starmer was urged to remove the party whip from Bulter who shared a social media post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing 'white supremacy in blackface'. Butler had shared the post just before the new Conservative party leader was elected. The Brent East MP later deleted the post, originally written by Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian journalist. It was titled 'Warning: Seven rules for surviving a Kemi Badenoch victory' and listed 'handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (i.e. white supremacy in blackface).'.

Journalist Nels Abbey, said: “Warning: Seven rules for surviving a Kemi Badenoch victory.

It read:

Today the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class (in Britain) is likely to be made leader of the Conservative Party. Here are some handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (i.e. white supremacy in blackface).

Don’t allow yourself to be gaslit. Of course, a victory for Badenoch is an obvious, unprecedented and once inconceivable victory for racism…

Don’t get arrested… The police don’t do nuance, and they conveniently refuse to understand black and brown intra-communal language or forms of critique, satire or compliment e.g. coconut, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kemi, house negro, choc ice etc.

It also described Mrs Badenoch's win as a 'victory for racism'. Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told GB News:

She has a history of this.

On a personal level, I’ve always got along with her, but her race-baiting is completely absurd. You can imagine that if Kemi had lost, she would’ve said exactly the same thing.

She would’ve said, ‘Of course, Kemi lost because the Tories are racist, and Britain is racist.’ Now that she’s won, she’s still calling it racist. This is madness.

Labour leader Keir Starmer has previously suspended the whip from Labour MPs in response to comments about senior black Conservative politicians. In 2022, he suspended Rupa Huq from the party for describing then-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as "superficially" black. Ms Huq apologised and had the whip restored six months later. He said: ‘I think this in a way what Dawn has said is worse, because she’s accusing Kemi, unbelievably, of being a front for white supremacy. Everything that happens, they try to put it through the same channel, regardless of the circumstances.’.

Tulip Siddiq

Tulip Rizwana Siddiq FRSA MP is a Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015. She has served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister since 9 July 2024. As a child, she met Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa, she is a niece of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. She has campaigned for political parties internationally and, in 2008, campaigned for Barack Obama in the U.S. Her maternal grandfather is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader and first President of Bangladesh. She identified former Labour minister Barbara Castle (an active supporter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in Britain from the very start of its existence) as her political heroine, and has described her mother and maternal aunt as "two very strong feminists".

In 1975, a faction of Bangladesh Army soldiers stormed Siddiq's mother's home in Bangladesh and assassinated Siddiq's grandfather, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, alongside his three sons and 16 other members of his family in a military coup. Siddiq's mother and aunt survived as they were visiting West Germany. In November 2017, Siddiq apologised for offensive remarks towards a pregnant Channel 4 producer after she was asked about a perceived failure to challenge her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh who was ousted amidst a mass uprising due to widespread human rights abuses and authoritarian rule, about the imprisonment of British-trained barrister Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem in Bangladesh. A year later Siddiq praised her aunt as a "great role model" for her daughter.

The July massacre 2024 was one of the most violent crackdowns in Bangladesh's history, ordered by Sheikh Hasina's government to suppress a student-led protest. The protest began as a peaceful demonstration demanding reforms to the education system, but it quickly escalated into a nationwide movement. On 15 July 2024, security forces, including the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police, opened fire on unarmed students, many of whom were between the ages of 5 to 30 years old. The government officially reported around 875 deaths, but independent sources and human rights organisations claim that nearly 3,000 students and civilians were killed.

Human rights groups have condemned Sheikh Hasina's government for its use of midnight arrests and enforced disappearances, particularly targeting political opponents, activists, and journalists. Security forces like the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are accused of abducting individuals from their homes during the night, many of whom were never seen again. Victims of these disappearances often included opposition members or activists who were critical of the regime.

In 2019, Siddiq, though she denied involvement in Bangladeshi politics, was accused of using supporters of the Awami League to campaign for her in Hampstead and Kilburn. Footage emerged from a 2017 meeting with Awami League supporters in which she had said "I want to thank you because without your support, I would not have been able to win my seat." Siddiq had previously described a role working for the Awami League's EU and UK "lobbying unit and election strategy team". Two Labour officials said the Awami League had supported Siddiq in her 2024 election campaign. In July 2024, it was announced that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards was investigating Siddiq for failing to declare income from a rental property, which the commissioner decided was "inadvertent" accepting the reasons for late registration.

Downing Street has stated that Prime Minister Keir Starmer maintains confidence in her, and she continues to hold her ministerial responsibilities. The probe has raised questions about Siddiq's role as the minister responsible for tackling corruption in UK financial markets, given her alleged involvement in these corruption claims. In 2024, the Financial Times reported that Siddiq's and Labour leader Keir Starmer's families were close friends.

The Bangladesh corruption probe involving UK Labour minister Tulip Siddiq has recently gained significant attention. In December 2024, Siddiq, who serves as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, was named in an investigation by Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The probe alleges that Siddiq and her family members, including her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, embezzled up to £3.9 billion from infrastructure projects in Bangladesh. The investigation focuses on the £10 billion Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project, where it is claimed that £1 billion was artificially inflated and diverted to private ownership. Siddiq is accused of facilitating meetings between Bangladeshi officials and the Russian government to advance the power plant project. Court documents suggest that Siddiq received embezzled funds from the inflated construction costs of the power plant, which was mainly funded by the Russian government.

Jack Khan

Jack Khan demanded all officers in Manchester Airport altercation need to be arrested and suspended, or they will unleash protests like “you’ve never seen before”. There was no mention from Khan of the attacked female officer with the broken nose caked in her own blood, suffering from obvious symptoms of PTSD.

On July 23, 2024, a police offer was suspended from duty and four men were arrested on suspicion of affray and assault on emergency workers following a violent altercation at Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom. Footage of the incident was widely circulated on social media.

Slum lord Khan, who represented the Rumworth ward in Bolton, left the Labour party to join George Galloway's political party. The founding of the Workers Party of Britain was welcomed by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) (CPGB-ML).

The CPGB-ML adheres to Marxism–Leninism, the political theory adopted by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The CPGB-ML praises communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Enver Hoxha and Fidel Castro. In 1995 former CPGB-ML chairman Harpal Brar published a book titled Social Democracy: The Enemy Within.

Joti Brar, a vice-chair of the CPGB-ML, was elected as the Workers Party of Britain's deputy leader at its founding congress. In the 2021 United Kingdom local elections, the party stood more than 40 candidates for local elections in England.

In October 2024, right-wing political party Reform UK threatened legal action against two of the men involved in the incident if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to charge them. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage accused GMP and the CPS of "two-tier policing" for not announcing charges. In November, Farage and Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice announced they would be moving forward with their plans to pursue prosecution. As of December 2024 there has been no annoucement by the CPS of any intention to prosecute.

Ivor Caplin

Ivor Keith Caplin is a British former Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove from 1997 until 2005. Caplin was born in Brighton into a Jewish family, he was the Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement for 2018–19. He became Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Beckett in 1998. Following re-election in 2001 he became an Assistant Government Whip and later Parliamentary under-secretary of state and Minister for Veterans at the Ministry of Defence. In 2010 Sir Thomas Legg conducted an independent audit of MPs expenses in which he determined that Caplin should repay £17,865 representing mortgage interest payments claimed on his second home, after Caplin failed to provide paperwork to establish his entitlement to claim the money. Caplin appealed, stating that Legg's letters had gone to an old address and had not been forwarded.

In June 2024 Caplin was suspended from the Labour Party due to "serious allegations" made about him. The allegations were not made public. In January 2025 Caplin was arrested by Sussex Police on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child, after being involved in a sting operation carried out by a group of anti-paedophile activists named STOP UK. A Sussex Police spokesman said: "We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in sexual communication with a child. Officers can confirm a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11 and currently remains in custody. STOP UK live streamed a sting operation and the moment of the arrest, which lasted around 30 minutes and has been widely shared on social media. It has already had 36,000 views and around 3,000 comments.

Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement. Initially a Young Communist League member, then a Labour Party member, Scargill is now deputy leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), having founded the party in 1996 and served as its leader from the party's foundation until 2024.

His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Scargill joined the Young Communist League in 1955, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and shortly after a member of its National Executive Committee. In a 1975 interview with New Left Review Scargill said:

I was in the Young Communist League for about six or seven years and I became a member of its National Executive Committee responsible for industrial work. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. Many of us started in the 1950s in the Young Communist League. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. My father was a Communist. My mother was strictly non-political. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.

Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. Scargill subsequently decided to move to Sheffield. The staff at headquarters issued a press statement in January 1983 to deny this and to list twelve grievances against Scargill's treatment of his staff. The section under "staff procedures" details how Scargill monitored head office staff:

Mr. Scargill's vendetta against Head Office staff has at times descended to the most puerile and paranoic [sic] levels. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. Staff members suddenly taken ill, or with long-standing medical appointments, require his personal consent to be absent from the office.

Scargill's statements in the years after becoming NUM president divided left-wing opinion with his support of the Soviet Union, most notably when he refused to support the TUC's positions on the Solidarity union in Poland or on the Soviet shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. One branch of the NUM, at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, put forward a vote of no confidence in Scargill in autumn 1983 following his comments on these matters, but Scargill defeated this at a December meeting and won a vote of confidence instead.

After stepping down from leadership of the NUM, Scargill became active in the UK's Stalin Society saying the "ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world.

In 1990, Scargill was accused in a series of Daily Mirror articles and ITV's The Cook Report of mishandling money donated for the striking miners during the 1984–1985 strike, with many of the sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM. It was alleged that, of the money donated from Libya, Scargill took £29,000 for his own bridging loan and £25,000 for his home in Yorkshire, but gave only £10,000 to the striking Nottinghamshire miners. In addition, it was alleged that he had taken £1,000,000 of cash donated by the Soviet Union for the Welsh miners and placed it in a Dublin bank account for the "International Miners' Organisation", where it stayed until a year after the strike had finished.

Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate (inherited his father's peerage on his death), was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was an active member of the Fabian Society and served as chairman from 1964 to 1965. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014. Benn was widely seen as a key proponent of democratic socialism and Christian socialism, though in regards to the latter he supported the United Kingdom becoming a secular state and ending the Church of England's status as an official church of the United Kingdom.

Today, it is almost impossible to imagine life in Benn’s ideal Britain — a republic governed in tandem with the trade unions, and sealed off from the outside world behind protectionist trade walls, like some European version of North Korea.

The terms Bennism and Bennite came into usage to describe the left-wing politics he espoused from the late 1970s and its adherents. He was an influence on the political views of Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected Leader of the Labour Party a year after Benn's death. Upon the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Benn described Mao as "one of the greatest—if not the greatest—figures of the twentieth century: a schoolteacher who transformed China, released it from civil war and foreign attack and constructed a new society there" in his diaries, adding that "he certainly towers above any twentieth-century figure I can think of in his philosophical contribution and military genius". On his trip to the Chinese embassy after Mao's death, Benn recorded in an earlier volume of his diaries that he was "a great admirer of Mao", while also admitting that "he made mistakes, because everybody does".

Benn proposed the Commonwealth of Britain Bill, abolishing the monarchy in favour of the United Kingdom becoming a "democratic, federal and secular commonwealth", a republic with a written constitution. It was read in Parliament a number of times until his retirement at the 2001 election, but never achieved a second reading.

He was vilified by most of the press while his opponents implied and stated that a Benn-led Labour Government would implement a type of Eastern European state socialism, with Edward Heath referring to Benn as "Commissar Benn" and others referring to Benn as a "Bollinger Bolshevik" (known today as "Champagne Socialist"). He publicly supported Sinn Féin and the unification of Ireland, although in 2005 he suggested to Sinn Féin leaders that it abandon its long-standing policy of not taking seats at Westminster (abstentionism). Several months prior to his retirement, Benn was a signatory to a letter condemning raids of more than 50 brothels in the central London area of Soho.

Patricia Hewitt

Patricia Hewitt is a British government adviser and former politician, who was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, she had previously been the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005. Hewitt's political career began in the 1970s, as a high-profile left-winger and supporter of Tony Benn. She was even classified by MI5 as an alleged communist sympathiser in the 1970s because of her relationship with William (Bill) Jack Birtles, a radical lawyer. Originally a Conservative, by the time of her divorce she had moved to the left, becoming a committed feminist. In 1990, the Council of Europe ruled that MI5 surveillance of both Hewitt and the NCCL legal officer, Harriet Harman, had breached the European Convention of Human Rights.

In 2001 she joined Blair's cabinet, the first of the 1997 intake of MPs to do so, as President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, before becoming Health Secretary in 2005. During her tenure, the ban on smoking in public places became legally enforceable. In March 2010, Hewitt was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over the question of political lobbying irregularities, alleged on the Channel 4 Dispatches programme. Hewitt was elected to the House of Commons as the first female MP for Leicester West at the 1997 general election, following the retirement of suspected peadophile Labour MP Greville Janner. In February 2014, the NCCL's connection with the Paedophile Information Exchange, an affiliated group during Hewitt's period as the pressure group's general secretary, gained media attention, to which Harriet Harman and her partner Jack Dromey also responded. A document in Hewitt's name stated:

NCCL proposes that the age of consent should be lowered to 14, with special provision for situations where the partners are close in age or where the consent of a child over ten can be proved.

The document also called for incest to be legalised. On 27 February 2014, Hewitt in a statement apologised and took responsibility for the "mistakes" made, saying that she and the NCCL had been "naive" about PIE, while insisting that she had never "supported or condoned the vile crimes of child abusers". Hewitt was one of the MPs named in the 2010 sting operation into political lobbying in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme, in which she appeared to claim that she had been paid £3,000 a day to help a client obtain a key seat on a Government advisory group. On 22 March 2010, Hewitt, along with Geoff Hoon and Stephen Byers, was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over the allegations.

Harriet Harman

Harriet Ruth Harman or Baroness Harman was member of the Labour Party, she was Deputy Labour Leader and Chair of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015, and also briefly served as Leader of the Opposition in 2010 and 2015, after the resignations of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, respectively. She has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024. The same year, Harman succeeded Labour Party MP Jess Phillips as co-host of the Sky News podcast Electoral Dysfunction. In March 2014, an article from the Daily Mail exposed that a 1979 letter from paedophile group supporter contained Ms Harman's initials. Harman denied allegations that she had supported the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when the advocacy group was affiliated with Liberty, while she was the pressure group's Legal Officer from 1978 to 1982.

Both the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph also claimed that Jack Dromey MP (her partner) and former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt had offered support to apologists for the sexual abuse of children while they were working for NCCL. The Guardian also states that in an NCCL briefing note dated 1978, Harman urged amendments to a 1978 Child Protection Bill declaring that "images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered", which Harman says was an argument intended to protect from "unintended consequences" such as parents being prosecuted for taking pictures of their children on the beach or in the bath. Most of the controversy comes after the NCCL passed motion 39 in support of PIE's rights. Motion 39 stated:

This AGM reaffirms the right of free discussion and freedom to hold meetings for all organisations and individuals doing so within the law. Accordingly, whilst reaffirming the NCCL policy on the age of consent and the rights of children; particularly the need to protect those of prepubertal age, this AGM condemns the physical and other attacks on those who have discussed or attempted to discuss paedophilia, and reaffirms the NCCL's condemnation of harassment and unlawful attacks on such persons.[.

In a television interview, Harman said she had "nothing to apologise for," stating: "I very much regret that this vile organisation, PIE, ever existed and that it ever had anything to do with NCCL, but it did not affect my work at NCCL." Harman stated that while she did support the equalisation of the age of consent for gay men she had never campaigned for the age of consent to go below the age of 16 and accused the Daily Mail of trying to make her "guilty by way of association". Ed Miliband backed Harman and stated that she had "huge decency and integrity". Another top public figure with links to PIE was the diplomat Sir Peter Hayman. A former British high commissioner to Canada who was also an top civil servant at the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence, Hayman's links to PIE were exposed when he left a parcel of paedophile porn on a London bus in 1978. It contained wads of diaries of explicit sexual fantasises – including killing children by sexual torture. There was also correspondence with members of PIE.

Denis Healey

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. Healey attended the University of Oxford and served as a Major in the Second World War. He was later an agent for the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the Foreign Office dedicated to spreading anti-communist propaganda during the early Cold War.

Healey began his political life as a Communist, and had joined the Communist Party in 1937 during the Great Purge, but left in 1940 after the Fall of France. Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold War, making the British vision for socialist internationalism prevail over the French and Belgian. At first, the provisional Socialist International (International Socialist Conference and Comisco) supported cohabitation with pro-communist socialists and the USSR, but with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe it committed to militant anti-communism.

Walton Newbold

John Turner Walton Newbold, generally known as Walton Newbold, was the first of the four Communist Party of Great Britain members to be elected as MPs in the United Kingdom. On leaving university, Newbold lectured in history and politics, and was engaged in industrial and economic research. In 1908, he joined the Fabian Society, connected with the Labour Party, and then the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1910. Whilst still a research student, he married fellow socialist Marjory Neilson, a leading Scottish communist.

By 1920, he was a committed communist, stating "my loyalty, at any rate, is now – as it has been for two and a half years – first and foremost to the position of the Third International". In 1921 he resigned from the ILP and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, becoming a member of its first central committee. Newbold received the support of the Labour Party, but unlike many other Communist candidates, including Shapurji Saklatvala who was elected in the same general election, he stood under the label "Communist".

He is sometimes counted as the first Communist MP in Britain, although others cite Cecil L'Estrange Malone, who switched from the Liberal Party in 1920, as the first Communist MP. Newbold was sometimes seen as ineffective in Parliament, mocked by many other MPs for his old and frequently dirty clothing, but focused on producing propaganda for the Communist Party. Increasingly disillusioned with communism, he resigned from the party in 1924 and rejoined the Labour Party.

Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala

Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala was a communist militant and British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. He was the first person of Indian heritage to become a British Member of Parliament (MP) for the UK Labour Party and was also among the few members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to serve as an MP. Shapurji Saklatvala was the son of a merchant, Dorabji Saklatvala, and his wife Jerbai, a sister of Jamsetji (aka J.N.) Tata, the owner of India's largest commercial and industrial empire. Saklatvala was a committed socialist, and first joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in Manchester in 1909. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia of November 1917 was an inspiration to Saklatvala, and following the establishment of the Communist International in 1919, he became active in attempting to affiliate the ILP with that new organisation.

In the October 1922 general election, the Communist Party of Great Britain launched its first electoral campaign, putting forward candidates in six constituencies. Saklatvala ran in the Battersea North district of London, one of two Communists to receive the official endorsement of the Labour Party – which was in effect an umbrella organisation which included affiliated political parties like the ILP as well as representatives of various trade unions. The November 1923 general election saw the CPGB putting forward 9 of its members as candidates, including Shapurji Saklatvala in Battersea North, where he was unanimously adopted as the nominee of the Battersea Labour Party. Although not all the Communist candidates were endorsed by the Labour Party, they all were the recipients of support from local Labour activists.

The 1924 general election came in the wake of the so-called Zinoviev letter and saw the Conservatives increase their vote by more than 2 million to win the election. The Labour Party saw a net loss of 42 seats despite contesting more constituencies than ever before. In 1934 he visited the Soviet Union to tour the Union's Far Eastern republics, whose governance he compared favourably to that in British India. During that tour, he suffered a heart attack but recovered. The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)'s hall is named after Shapurji Saklatvala. Saklatvala Hall is located in Southall, London. The hall is used for CPGB-ML's meetings and celebrations.