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Introductory speech by Daniel Randall from a meeting of the same name. Future meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Video: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/what-is-left-antisemitism-and-how-can-it-be-confronted-with-daniel-randall-workers-liberty The imminent publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report, as well as the ongoing fallout from the Panorama documentary and subsequent legal wranglings, have kept the issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party in the news and political discussion. But the “debates” so far have tended to generate more heat than light, by keeping the focus on the factional implications rather than the underlying political issues. This discussion seeks to get back to the fundamental questions: what does antisemitism on the left consist of, where does it come from, and how can it be confronted? More on this topic: https://workersliberty.org/left-as See more videos on this and related topics: https://www.youtube.com/c/WorkersLibertyUK **Reading list** Steve Cohen – That's Funny, You Don't Look Antisemitic https://libcom.org/files/thats_funny.pdf Robert Fine and Philip Spencer – Antisemitism and the Left http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526104977 Moishe Postone - “Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Left” https://www.workersliberty.org/files/100205postone.pdf Stan Crooke – “The Stalinist Roots of Left Antisemitism” https://www.workersliberty.org/files/wl10stalinismantisemitism.pdf Isabella Tabarovsky - “Soviet anti-Zionism and contemporary left antisemitism” https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemitism Workers' Liberty - “The Slansky Trial: Stalinism, antisemitism and conspiracy theories” https://www.workersliberty.org/slansky-trial-stalinism-anti-semitism-and-conspiracy-theories-workers-liberty-336 Dale Street - “Three decades of Socialist Worker on antisemitism” https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-27/three-decades-socialist-worker-antisemitism John O'Mahony - “The 1980s left and antisemitism” https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2018-06-01/1980s-and-left-antisemitism Satnam Virdee - “Socialist antisemitism and its discontents in England, 1884-98” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2017.1335029 Brendan McGeever – Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/antisemitism-and-the-russian-revolution/AF5AE3BB29CB5A7909C75036694CDADE April Rosenblum - The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere https://www.aprilrosenblum.com/thepast Spencer Sunshine - “Looking At Left Antisemitism” http://transformativestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Spencer-Sunshine.pdf