There is only
one form of racism that the GMB opposes – ‘antisemitism’ - in other words it
supports Israeli Apartheid
The first
time I became aware of the GMB, then the General and Municipal Workers
Union, was when I was a young activist in 1970 during the Pilkington’s
strike. Pilkingtons manufactured glass in St Helens, a town near
Liverpool. The workers went on unofficial strike and the GMWU led by Lord
Cooper did its best, in conjunction with the management, to break the strike.
The
official who presided over that act of scabbing was future General Secretary
David Basnett. The determination of the strikers who stayed out for 6 weeks
without strike pay was a wonder to behold. The GMB has not changed
fundamentally since then.
Gary Smith, the latest in a line of right-wing GMB General Secretaries
I knew Gary Smith, the current General Secretary, from when he was a young
official in Brighton during the refuse workers’ strike and occupation at Hollingdean
Refuse Depot in 2001.
I was
Secretary of the nearby Brighton and Hove Unemployed Workers Centre and we and
our volunteers were called upon by Smith to help the workers win their dispute.
We loaned them our computer equipment and our activists helped out for example
by lying down on the road and locking on to stop the Council’s attempts to
break the strike with scab lorries.
The
workers won their dispute and as a result the privatisation of refuse
collection was ended. SITA were removed and the refuse collection was brought
in-house. In other words privatisation was reversed – something which was
pretty unique at the time.
Unfortunately
the solidarity we showed has never been reciprocated by the GMB, which is a
selfish, self-centred, right-wing union.
Smith
struck me as an ambitious official. Although he ably supported the strike and
occupation he had no wider socialist politics and one can see that today. He is
a union bureaucrat who has no criticism of Starmer or the Labour Right. He
would be happy to return to the days of New Labour. He hasn’t the foresight or
acumen to see that Starmer would be a disaster for workers and all those who
are living under a neo-liberal government determined to remove workers’ rights.
He has no vision beyond his own perks and privileges.
The hypocrisy of Gary Smith who has supported Keir Starmer to the hilt
The GMB is and always
has been a bastion of the Right in the Labour Party. Often little more than a
company union it is an unflinching supporter of capitalism within the labour
movement. The ideas of workers’ control are alien to it. The GMB has adopted
the short-termism of capitalism, with its inability to recognise that the world
we live in is being destroyed by the scramble for profit. The GMB supports
Trident, nuclear power and fracking.
In theory the GMB supports racial justice and equality
The GMB & Racism
The GMB is also the
most racist, sexist and corrupt union with unelected Regional Barons, all men,
and a General Secretary who is often not even elected (opponents were prevented
from standing by setting the number of branch nominations artificially high).
The GMB has never been
to the fore, or indeed involved, in any anti-racist campaigns that involved
Black or Asian members of its workforce. As a largely White union it was completely
absent from anti-fascist campaigns against groups like the National Front and
BNP in the 70s and 80s and from campaigns against state racism.
There are hardly any
articles on its website on racism. Just one article on the
launch of its race strand, one article
on the Grenfell fire despite the involvement of its own members as emergency
responders and one article on
Black Lives Matter. All of them dated.
There is absolutely nothing about the
participation of the GMB union or its members in anti-racist struggles or
campaigns. The GMB has been conspicuous by its absence from campaigns such as
that of Stephen Lawrence.
The same is true of
international issues. On Palestine there is one
article welcoming a Supreme Court decision that went in favour of the right
of pension funds to boycott unethical investments and a statement
on Western Sahara and Palestine. That is it.
There is nothing on
BDS, nothing criticising Israeli Apartheid, nothing about the union giving
concrete support to the Palestinians such as sending delegations to Palestine besides
a token affiliation to Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
GMB Supports the Racist Jewish Labour Movement
However there is one
form of ‘racism’ that the GMB is most concerned about. Yes that’s right –
‘anti-Semitism’. The very same ‘anti-Semitism’ that Labour’s Forde Report has conceded was weaponised
against supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and the left.
So concerned about
non-existent ‘anti-Semitism’ are the GMB
that they hosted
‘the first-ever antisemitism education
training for GMB members at Congress’. About other forms of racism?
Nothing.
And who
did they host it with? The Jewish Labour
Movement, the British wing of the racist Israeli Labor Party. It’s like hosting a seminar on care for the
elderly with Harold Shipman as the main guest or a conference on fighting
fascism with Nick Griffin.
The
Israeli Labor Party formed the government of Israel from 1948-1977. In 1948 they
massacred and expelled ¾ million Palestinian refugees and for 18 of those years
kept Israeli Arabs under military rule, confined to their villages whilst
confiscating most of their land. 93% of Israel was barred to them. It was the
ILP that began the colonisation of the West Bank. This is the party that the JLM calls its ‘sister party’.
The ILP’s former leader Isaac
Herzog, now Israel’s President, declared
that his nightmare
was waking up to find that Israel had a Palestinian Prime Minister and 61
Palestinian Members of Israel’s Knesset. Herzog declared that he wanted to dispel
the impression that the ILP were ‘Arab
Lovers’.
Imagine
that someone were to say that their fear was that Britain might have a Jewish
Prime Minister or that the Labour Party was not a ‘Jew lovers’ party. The term ‘Jew
lover’ and ‘Nigger lover’ used to
be part of the language of the National Front but in a ‘Jewish’ state such
language is common.
Herzog
responded to Netanyahu’s attempt to expel Black African refugees from Israel, whose only crime was being Black and not Jewish, by
criticising him for not being tough enough! Herzog argued
that Eritreans in Israel were not refugees but ‘infiltrators’ (it is what the
Palestinian refugees used to be called in 1948 onwards, despite them being the indigenous population).
In September 2015, the ILP complained that Netanyahu’s government has not done enough to expel African
refugees. Herzog’s Labor Party adopted
the far-right’s propaganda points, insisting
that most refugees in Israel have no valid claim to refugee status.
“If only
Bibi’s government had created immigration laws, it would be possible to send
back to their country those who are in Israel for their welfare and for work.
But the Likud government is only good at talking, and it is responsible for the
troubles of the residents of south Tel Aviv.”
In 2017 the ILP led a successful
effort to abolish the Knesset’s committee on foreign workers, one of the
few forums in which the concerns of refugees could receive a hearing in
parliament.
Today the
ILP and its 7 MKs are in
government with Israel’s far-right. Labour’s Security Minister Omar Barlev,
gave last May permission for thousands of settlers to march through Arab East
Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, in an assertion of Jewish supremacy. This was the same as the Loyalist marches in Catholic areas of Northern Ireland. What followed
was a veritable pogrom. Hundreds of Palestinians were attacked by mobs chanting
‘death to the Arabs’. It was not as if Barlev had not been warned.
The
liberal Ha’aretz, in an Editorial was
scathing.
Bar-Lev
decided that the defiant nationalist Flag
March in Jerusalem will once again pass through Damascus Gate and the
Muslim Quarter. Thus he has proven not only the weakness of his stand, but also
that he sees himself as public security minister for Jews only. The fate of the
Palestinians, their well-being, security and dignity, interests him not at all;
he permits them to be trampled on, and perhaps even encourages it.
From
Bar-Lev’s point of view, there are no residents in Jerusalem except the
Jews for whose well-being he is responsible.
This is the JLM's ‘sister
party’. For the GMB to ally itself with the JLM is an endorsement of Israel’s
racist treatment of the Palestinians and makes itself complicit in that treatment.
The
JLM, formerly Poale Zion, has never been interested in fighting genuine
anti-Semitism. In the 1930s when anti-Semitism was at its height in Britain,
with Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists regularly attacking Britain’s Jews,
over 200,000 workers took to the streets of the East End to stop the fascists
marching through the East End in what became known as the Battle
of Cable Street.
The
Board of Deputies and the Jewish Chronicle told
Jews to stay at home and avoid the fascists. Britain’s Zionists were
opposed to any physical confrontation. Poale Zion played no part in the mobilisation against the fascists because it was a right-wing middle class affiliate of the Labour Party. Jewish workers supported the Communist Party or Independent Labour Party. They were not Zionists.
Exactly the same happened in the 1970s
with the National Front. The Zionists played no part in opposing them. The only ‘anti-Semitism’ that the Board and the JLM
are concerned about is opposition to Israel and Zionism. The GMB's racist leadership are fully aware of this.
The
Zionist movement has never fought anti-Semitism. The Zionist movement was
formed because it rejected the fight against anti-Semitism which they saw as
inherent in every Gentile. As Theodor Herzl, its founder, wrote
in his Diaries during the Dreyfus Affair:
In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I
now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognise the
emptiness and futility of trying to 'combat' anti-Semitism.
So when
the GMB say they are partnering with the JLM what they are really doing is partnering
with Apartheid. They are not ‘stamping out anti-Semitism’ as they claim
but stabbing Palestinians in the back.
In the past year virtually all human rights organisations – Amnesty
International, Human
Rights Watch, B’Tselem,
Harvard
Human Rights Clinic and the UN’s Special Rapporteur have said
that Israel is an apartheid, Jewish supremacist state. The evidence is overwhelming
yet GMB apparatchiks see no problem in working with these racists on Labour’s
Right whilst also claiming to support the Palestinians.
It is well
known that you can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Yet the
corrupt bureaucrats of the GMB’s London Region believe you can lie down with
the supporters of Israeli Apartheid and still claim to support the Palestinians. They
are encouraged in this by Palestine Solidarity
Campaign, to which the GMB is affiliated, which will not issue one word of
criticism of the GMB’s duplicity.
GMB officers are notorious for their stupidity but even the stupidest
bureaucrat should realise that ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party was
confected. There was no such phenomenon. The fact that Starmer’s fight against ‘anti-Semitism’
has resulted in Jews being expelled from Labour at 5
times the rate of non-Jews should surely make it clear to even the dimmest
official that the issue was always Israel not Jews.
The GMB’s London Region declared
that anti-Semites should face the ‘full
force of the law’ but has nothing to say about the Windrush deportations,
attacks on Mosques, Islamaphobia, the Rwandan Scheme, deaths in police custody etc.
But when it comes to the most privileged and prosperous section of the White
community, Jews, the GMB suddenly becomes anti-racist. This is in itself a demonstration
of the racism running through the GMB.
British Jews do not experience anti-Semitism except as prejudice. There
is no state anti-Semitism. There is no offence of ‘driving whilst Jewish’ whereas
Black drivers get regularly
stopped. There was no Jewish Windrush Scandal or a Jewish Stephen Lawrence. It
is mosques like
Finsbury Park, not synagogues, which are attacked. That is why anti-Semitism is
confected and why Tory racists like Boris ‘watermelon
smiles’ Johnson included, are happy to condemn
‘anti-Semitism’, when it relates to Israel, even
whilst they harbour anti-Semitic sentiments.
In May 2021 there was a small pro-Israel demonstration outside the Israeli
Embassy. Who turned up? British fascist, Tommy
Robinson. Even the most stupid GMB bureaucrat, even Gary Smith, should be
able to understand that it is the anti-Semitic far-Right who are Israel’s most
vociferous supporters and ask themselves why that is the case.
The same is true in the United States. The organiser of the
Charlottesville demonstration and founder of the alt-Right, neo-Nazi Richard
Spencer describes himself as a White
Zionist. Donald Trump, the most pro-Israeli President there has ever
been was also anti-Semitic telling
Jews that Israel was their ‘real home’.
Historically anti-Semites, the Nazis included, loved Zionism because it
helped rid them of the Jews in their midst. And the Zionists reciprocated.
The JLM has never fought or opposed genuine anti-Semitism. It only seeks
to equate anti-Zionism and support for the Palestinians with anti-Semitism. It tried
to outlaw using the word ‘Zionist’ saying it was an
abusive term. Perhaps we should refrain from using the term ‘racist’ in
case it offends racists?
Mike Katz, Chair of the JLM declared
that under Gary Smith,
the GMB practice what they
preach. It was a privilege to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our trade union
allies who are committed to fighting antisemitism.
Whatever Gary Smith and the GMB have been fighting
it’s not anti-Semitism. It is the
conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism. It was no accident that when
Smith, formerly Scottish Regional Secretary was elected, the Labour right cheered the result.
The Monaghan
Report into Sexual Harassment in the GMB
In June
2021 Smith succeeded Tim Roache, who resigned after a series of allegations of
sexual assault, including rape, were made against him. All of which he denied. Roache
resigned on grounds of ‘ill health’. The seriousness of the allegations made
against Roache and others, resulted in an Inquiry under Karon Monaghan QC. It reported
on 31 August 2020 and it made grim reading. It found that:
·
The GMB is institutionally sexist.
·
The General Secretaries and all regional secretaries
are, and always have been, men and women are underrepresented throughout the
GMB’s senior ranks.
·
There is significant job segregation at regional level,
with officer grades disproportionately filled by men and staff grades
disproportionately filled by women.
·
Branches are male dominated with limited female
participation, and are often organised in a way that deters women members’
participation.
‘The immediate trigger for the investigation was the
receipt of an undated letter sent to Barbara Plant, the President of the GMB.
The letter contained allegations of a “serious sexual assault (rape)”, drug use
and sexually predatory behaviour, by a senior man within the GMB. The letter
also alleged that a number of named people were aware of the incident (the
alleged rape) and those included senior members of staff.’ [Introduction s.3]
Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary resigned after allegations of serious sexual assault and rape
Monaghan reported that she had kept the names of those who
confided in her secret because of the
‘fear as to
what might happen if identities were disclosed. Those concerns were not
fanciful.... the culture of bullying and victimisation in the GMB is such that
I am satisfied the concerns were well founded.” [s.6]
The litany of faults were almost endless. No complaints
procedures existed other than complaining to the branch and often the person
against whom the complaint was being made with the result that the favourite
way of dealing with a complaint was ‘by moving people or shuffling them out.’ In other words the complainant was
the one who was punished. (s.107). Cronyism was also a major problem in the GMB
as Gary Smith can testify.
‘I heard much evidence of cronyism, including
from some of those who had benefitted from it but also from those who suffered
in consequence of it. The examples I heard about concerned the placing of,
mainly, men into posts that were either created for them or not advertised.
This way of recruitment operates as a “reward” for good behaviour, as it is
perceived, while ensuring that those who do not toe the line are excluded from
senior posts. (s.113)
Although the Report was not about racism, it inevitably
intruded. Monaghan stated that:
I was also contacted by a number of
people from Black and minority ethnic groups. They recognised that this
investigation is concerned with sexual harassment but wanted to draw to my
attention the very real and serious problems that exist for members and employees
from Black and minority ethnic groups. Having read written communications and
spoken to some who contacted me, I am satisfied that the GMB is not a
comfortable place to be for many employees and members from Black and minority
ethnic groups. Many of the cultural facets of the GMB that I have described
above deter employees and members from Black and minority ethnic groups from
participating in GMB work, and when they do, at functions for example, the
environment can seem hostile or at least unwelcoming. The GMB needs to address
its culture more broadly if it wants to be an inclusive union as its aims
declare. At the moment it is “white, male and stale”.
Monaghan
linked the failings around sexual harassment to the GMB’s bureaucratic
structures. She singled out the role of exclusively male regional secretaries “who hold the real power, along with the
general secretary.” (s.59)
Smith was
the GMB’s Scottish regional secretary. After his election he said
he would work for the full implementation of the Monaghan report. An article
in Labour List of April 2021 reported that
Women working
at the GMB trade union,... have lodged a formal dispute with the organisation
as they say grievances are not being heard fairly, LabourList can
reveal....
The leadership
is now being accused by GMB activists and employees of “blindness” to the
findings, with several sources saying the internal problems have become “worse”
since the report by Karon Monaghan QC was published in September 2020.
The article also
revealed that Gary Smith, who wasn’t then in office, ‘has been the subject of bullying complaints but is nonetheless in the
running for the union’s top job.’ In other words, having been forced to commission the Monaghan
Report the GMB’s officials were equally determined to ignore it. And under
Smith they have.
Selling Out its Members and Scabbing on Them
In April 2021 British Gas
decided to fire and rehire its engineers. This was a major challenge, not just
to the workers concerned, but to the working class as a whole. It began a new
offensive of the employers.
The workers involved
went on strike for 44 days but instead of taking up the cudgels and extending the
dispute and fighting with determination the GMB officials did their best to end
the dispute with minimum concessions by the employer.
In Former
British Gas workers angry at GMB union for ‘rolling over’ as dispute ends one worker claimed that
“The damage is done. Morale
at British Gas is at an all time low. Nobody wants to be there and the one
institution —the GMB—that engineers thought they could rely on has rolled over
with management.
“Why is it I
pay my union fees again?”
Paul,
another British Gas engineer, wrote,
I find this statement disgraceful. Claiming this is
some kind of victory is an insult to our members who were out in all weather’s
on the picket line and to those sacked in April. This wasn’t a victory—it was a
crushing defeat.
A win in the British Gas
dispute would have been a victory for the whole working class. But the
union’s useless leadership was more concerned with protecting its own
privileges. The GMB acts as a bosses union.
The Guardian reported that
Hundreds
of British Gas engineers to lose jobs in ‘fire and rehire’ scheme. This was
a deal concocted by GMB bureaucrats and imposed on the membership which accepted
it under union pressure. The GMB tried to spin it as GMB
members back improved pay deal.
The resort to
dictatorial methods by the company has not been enough by itself to intimidate
workers. British Gas relies on the collusion of the GMB against its own
members. The union’s response to the issuing of the dismissal notices on March
25 was to advise strikers in an email,
weeks beforehand, that they had no other option than to sign.
The union is
solely responsible for the division this has created among the striking
engineers whose action had been solid up to this point. The company now boasts
that 95 percent have signed the new contract. Whether this is true cannot be
verified. Despite the treachery of the GMB, hundreds of engineers, and
according to one source up to 1,000 workers, have refused to sign.
Workers in Deliveroo
have long been fighting for union rights with the IWGB
Union. When things got too hot for Deliveroo they signed a
sweetheart deal with the GMB. As The Canary reported
A notorious
food delivery company has just signed a deal with an equally contentious trade
union. It reeks of corporate capitalist cronyism. And, it looks set to
completely undermine workers’ rights – despite what both parties are claiming....
Now, its deal with Deliveroo cements the union’s status as a scabbing,
right-wing, bosses’ Trojan horse.
On
Twitter the GMB announced on May 12
2022 that it had reached a new joint agreement with Deliveroo over the head of
its workers. The accompanying video was a nauseating piece of PR. It stated:
‘Together, Deliveroo and GMB are
standing up for what matters to riders.’ As The Canary’s Steve Topple remarked
‘If the GMB is
working “together” with Deliveroo – then who is the union “standing up for”?
What exactly do they think riders care about? It could be they care about
inflation that keeps making their slave wages worth even less?
The IWGB
Union, which is a genuine union, was fuming. It said:
Deliveroo… has
spent hundreds of thousands of pounds fighting the IWGB in court to prevent
collective bargaining with its riders. Deliveroo has always claimed that
collective bargaining would come at the cost of flexible working, but this
partnership proves that this has always been a lie to scare workers away from
unionising. Now as we appeal our collective bargaining case to the Supreme
Court, Deliveroo has cynically made this backroom deal with the GMB, which has
no record of organising couriers and presents no threat to their exploitative
business practices, to protect itself in the event that it loses at the final
stage.
The GMB
has scabbed on another union and its workers. As far back as 1944, Marxists were moaning about how Labour’s
trade unions were effectively working for the bosses. As George
Padmore wrote:
because the
ideology of the ruling-class has permeated the Labour Movement and corrupted
influential sections of the leadership…Trade Union leaders have become… closely
tied with Monopoly-Capitalists.
See The
GMB Union just scabbed on Deliveroo workers
Smith was
reported
by Sky as saying that Starmer must use Labour's party conference to show nation
he 'has what it takes' to be prime
minister. Smith had given his support to Starmer's plans to change the party's
rules for electing future leaders.
Smith had
nothing about changing a system where wealth flows upwards to the multi
nationals and the utility companies and those who are already rich. The GMB has
nothing to say about capitalism or class inequalities or poverty. Its only
concern was to ensure that the Labour Party never again had a socialist leader
and to protect corrupt and rotten right-wing MPs.
The GMB
is a ‘non-political’ union which is signed up to British capitalism and imperialism
and that explains why the only form of racism that concerns it is
‘anti-Semitism’, the ritual cry of those who defend Israeli Apartheid.
Other
trade unions, like the TSSA and CWU, opposed Starmer’s proposals, which would
have handed power back to MPs and deprived ordinary trade unionists and Labour
Party members of any say.
Smith ‘signalled he recognised the need for
changes.’ As Sky noted,
Smith ‘is one of the most sympathetic
union leaders to the Labour leadership’.
Smith
also said that the Labour leader was “decent”
and “committed”. I have heard other
descriptions but being a family blog I dare not print them. However I would
refer people who are uncertain to watch the video
where Audrey White tells Starmer in Liverpool that he is a liar who is ‘no better than a Tory’. It’s not the
kind of thing Smith would tell him as he is a sycophant to those in power.
Smith
demonstrated just how much of a tin ear he and the GMB leadership has when he rejected
the idea that the UK needed to become carbon neutral by 2030. As Britain
becomes hotter and hotter and as global warming takes effect this neanderthal,
in an echo of Trump’s climate denial could only say
that
"I think
a lot of the debate around energy and the environment has been fundamentally
dishonest. The energy market is broken, energy is very complex, and I don't
think politicians have entirely grasped that. We have a national security issue
unfolding around energy, around security supplies.
In other words he is committed to empty flag waving
patriotism which ties Britain to US warmongering. The GMB is a fervent
supporter of Trident and Britain’s ‘independent’ nuclear deterrent on the
grounds that its members would lose their jobs.
One of the endearing characteristics of people like Smith is
that they cannot envisage anything other than disaster capitalism which is
destroying the world. They have no vision of an alternative way of ordering the
world but dog eat dog capitalism.
The fact that the billions spent on Trident could create far
more useful jobs for people such as insulating every house in Britain to
conserve energy or developing carbon capture for coal has never even occurred
to him and the GMB’s blinkered leadership.
In Sexism and corruption in the GMB: We
need a member-led union Socialist Appeal said:
‘We need a union that is run democratically;
which respects the dignity of its members and of workers in general; where no
one is discriminated against; where no one is intimidated for defending
socialist ideas. But to achieve this, much bolder measures are required than
those suggested in Monaghan’s report.
To guarantee a
real change in the union; to transform the GMB into a democratic and fighting
union, we must demand:
·
A member-led union, instead of
having an out-of-control officialdom lording it over the membership.
·
Election and right of recall of
all officials.
·
Officials take the average wage
of the members they are supposed to represent.
What happens in a right-wing
‘non-political’ right-wing union is that its officials see defending their own
perks and privileges as more important than defending their members.
The GMB gave no support to Corbyn as it worked with Tom Watson and Owen Smith to unseat him
You get a good idea of what GMB
democracy is about from So,
farewell Tim Roache, an open letter from a GMB member in Glasgow to
retiring General Secretary Tim Roache:
First elected
GMB General Secretary in 2015, in an election in which just 4.2% of the
membership participated, you romped home with a mandate from precisely 2.2% of
the membership.
A big step
forward from the 2010 General Secretary election (zero turnout – only one
candidate) and the 2006 General Secretary election (zero turnout – only one
candidate).
At first sight,
though, a big step backwards from the 2003 General Secretary election, which
had a 14% turnout. But, as you’ll remember, the high turnout (by GMB standards)
was down to ballot-rigging: 60,000 ballot papers issued to dead, lapsed and
retired former members.
(6,000 votes
cast by GMB ‘members’ in the AA motoring organisation alone. I never knew the
AA workforce was so class-conscious. And, miraculously, thousands of votes from
non-existent GMB ‘members’ at the Millenium Dome and clothing factories which had
been closed for years.)
As a result, in 2005 Kevin
Curran, the then General Secretary, was forced
to resign after an investigation into ballot rigging.
Described as a ‘prominent
supporter of Gordon Brown’, New Labour’s racist Prime Minister (British
Jobs for British Workers – the National Front slogan), Curran was
suspended from office for interfering in an inquiry into a voting scam during
his election two years previously. The
Independent reported that:
Curran was
accused of a scam in which possibly thousands of voting forms were sent to
"safe houses", and his backers were also accused of unlawfully using
the GMB's money to fund his campaign.
Mr Curran's
backers allegedly voted for him on behalf of workers who had died, left the
union or failed to pay subscriptions. It is claimed that addresses of the
"ghost members" were altered so forms were dispatched to houses where
Mr Curran's supporters would fill them in.
It is no
wonder therefore that a racist, sexist bosses union should also be a union that
has signed up to Zionism and Israeli Apartheid under the guise of fighting
‘anti-Semitism’. If anti-Semitism was a genuine problem in Britain today then the
idea that Gary Smith or the GMB would be interested in fighting it would be as absurd
as Boris Johnson being interested in telling the truth.
Tony Greenstein
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