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Putting an issue to rest.

A reply to the SWP’s ‘Statement on Newcastle allegations.’ On 26 April, the SWP Central Committee released a statement on the SWP website titled ‘Statement on Newcastle allegations’, which was written in response to a statement released on social media by former members of the Newcastle SWP branch on social media, following our resignation from the party. The statement on behalf of the SWP is both misleading and untruthful, and we believe, brings the organisation into further disrepute. New Evidence: The lie at the heart of the Crisis We are privy to new evidence which suggests that Amy Leather and Charlie Kimber have lied to and misled the SWP On the 25 February 2020, CK, suspended YB on the basis that: ‘We believe that acting for PB when you knew he had been expelled from the SWP for serious inappropriate behaviour towards a woman brought the party into disrepute’ . On 11 March, during in a ‘special members meeting’ in Newcastle, AL said: ‘In 2015, a complaint was made a
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Response to SWP's statement.

We are former members of the Newcastle Socialist Workers Party branch, and the three women who have made repeated complaints of a culture of sexism, bullying and misogyny within the branch; complaints which the DC have refused to investigate, and which have led to us and other members of the branch, being driven out of the organisation. We are writing this in response to a statement released last night by the Socialist Workers Party, which we find grossly offensive, as it seeks to completely ignore the complaints of the female members around accessibility, safeguarding, sexism, misogyny, bullying and the atrocious conduct of Joint National secretary of the SWP, Amy Leather, during a meeting on 11th March in Newcastle (to which 6 formal complaints were submitted to the DC). We feel that he statement seeks to conflate the complaints of the women in the branch, with concerns raised about the suspension of YB, despite the fact that the complaints raised by the women of a toxic culture
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Our Statement

We, the undersigned, have resigned from our membership from the SWP. It saddens us deeply to have to take this action, but we feel that the Central committee and sections of Disputes committee have left us no other options in their failure to take seriously, or indeed even investigate, ongoing complaints of a bullying, misogynistic and sexist culture in the Newcastle branch; as well as their failure to investigate the conduct of Joint National Secretary Amy Leather, following a ‘special members meeting’ held in Newcastle on 11th March 2020, following which 6 formal complaints were submitted to the DC by comrades in the branch. These complaints included concerns around safeguarding, accessibility, bullying, harassment, slander and institutional racism. All 6 complainants have been met with a point blank refusal on the part of DC to even investigate their complaints, which spurred the complainants to submit a ‘Open Letter to the CC and DC’ dated the 16th April, which was signed by 14 m
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