Weyman Bennett

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Weyman Bennett is a leader of Stand Up to Racism.[1]

Anti-racist rally

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Speakers: Jeremy Corbyn, Sharon Graham, Apsana Begum, Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Mick Lynch, Joginder Bains, Marlene Sidaway, Massimo Ungaro, Weyman Bennett, Rob Griffiths, Mary Davis, Amina Patel, Abdul Chowdhury, Julia Bard.

Co-chairs: David Rosenberg, Julie Begum.

'Tax the Rich'

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Fran Heathcote, Phil Clarke, Felicity Dowling, Alan Gibbons, Steph Pike, Weyman Bennett, Alex Gordon.

Refugees Welcome

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Battling the English Defence League

From the New Communist Party of Britain website by Anton Johnson dated November 05, 2012:[2]

More 1,000 anti-fascists gathered in the centre of Waltham Forest November 2012 to celebrate the non-appearance of the "violent thugs of the Islamophobic English Defence League".
The EDL had been banned from holding a second march in Walthamstow after the first, on 1st September, was blocked from completing its course by thousands of local residents representing all sections of the very diverse local community.
The EDL referred to the second attempt to march as a “rematch” but 53 EDL supporters, including their leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, were arrested a week before the event.
The Metropolitan Police and Waltham Forest council also secured a ban, under the Public Order Act, on all marches in the area and told the EDL they could hold a static demonstration in Westminster or none at all.
But that ban was used as a pretext to halt the anti-fascist rally. When the protesters started to turn up at the open green area for the victory rally organised by We Are Waltham Forest and Unite Against Fascism, council officers told them there was to be no rally and that the area was occupied by a travelling fairground. But the anti-fascists continued to arrive and police were forced to allow them to use a side street for their rally. Eventually it was so full police had to close the road to traffic.
A long line of speakers included Labour & Co-op MP Stella Creasy, Gerry Gable, editor of Searchlight, Tony Kearns CWU deputy general secretary, Hugh Lanning PCS deputy general secretary, Green Party MEP Jean Lambert and Father Steven Saxby, a local Catholic priest. Other speakers included local student activists, Varinder Singh from Sikhs Against the EDL, UAF joint general secretaries Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu, and Jo Cardwell and Sophie Bolt from We Are Waltham Forest.

Tribute to Jude Woodward

On April 30, 2020, John Ross tweeted[3] his admiration for "committed Marxist" Jude Woodward upon her death: "Many moving & fitting tributes to Jude Woodward from across the progressive & socialist movement - shows how a committed Marxist pursued not only goal of final liberation of humanity but supported every progressive struggle that led in that direction"

He tweeted the link to the Socialist Action article[4] featuring other tributes for Jude Woodward including:

Unite Against Fascism

In Leeds on the 14 March 2009, around 50 attended Unite Against Fascism’s Yorkship regional conference. It was meant to be a discussion of the strategy for the Euro elections. What actually happened was 14 speeches from the platform by regional secretaries of major unions, the regional secretary of the Islamic Society, Labour MEP Linda McAvan, Sheffield University women’s offier Fiona Edwards (a member of Socialist Action), and five UAF full-timers including Weyman Bennett of the SWP.[5]

References

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ DIY activism in practice (accessed July 29, 2024)
  3. ↑ https://archive.vn/Zljio (accessed July 26 2020)
  4. ↑ http://www.socialistaction.net/2020/04/30/tributes-to-jude-woodward/ Tributes to Jude Woodward (accessed July 26 2020)
  5. ↑ [2]
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