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 DEFEND
THE FOUR
A
fter a three-year long battle WITCH-HUNT
four Socialist Party members What is clear is that the four were
(Glenn Kelly, Suzanne Muna, disciplined because they had the
Onay Kasab and Brian Debus), were temerity to demand the right to
at last given justice in a court of debate whether union officials
law. UNISON has been ruled to have should be elected and live off a
acted unlawfully in disciplining the worker’s wage, whether ordinary
four, banning them from office and members should have control over
taking control of their branches. strike action and whether the union
should carry on funding the Labour
They were disciplined by UNISON Party, particularly at a time when
on trumped-up charges of racism, a Labour government was voting
after producing a leaflet at the 2007 through thousands of redundancies
Unison conference, challenging of our members.
the Standing Orders Committee
(SOC) about ruling resolutions The Four and their supporters are
off the conference agenda. demanding:
The union officials tried to hide
behind the smear of racism, citing • Lift the ban on the four
the three wise monkeys cartoon
on the leaflet. But the judgment is • Allow the four to be re-instated
absolutely clear on this question: “It in their branch and national
is obvious to anyone looking at the positions.
cartoon that it is meant to represent
the well-known image of the three • UNISON branches to be taken out
wise monkeys who see no evil, hear of regional administration.
no evil and speak no evil.”
WASTING MEMBERS MONEY
The tribunal later goes on to say that: Tens of thousands of pounds and
“All four claimants are committed hundreds of hours have been used
anti-racists and have fought against to try to prosecute this case against
racism. They quite reasonably the four. Members have a right to
assumed that anyone who saw know that every penny in the union
the leaflet would understand the and every moment will be used in
cartoon to be saying that the SOC defence of their jobs and aimed
was out of touch and closing its at the real enemy which is the
mind to and ignoring issues that employers and this government.
concerned the membership.
We call on all Unison members
The cartoon was not a pictorial and branches to demand that this
depiction of the members of the injustice be undone.
SOC... but a representation of its
attitude towards motions that were A model motion and the background
submitted to it.” to this case can be found on the
Defend the Four Website.
See the Defend the Four website for
more information on the ET ruling. www.stopthewitchhunt.org.uk