wsws | The Oxford Union has finally responded to the exposure of its
attempts to censor one of its own panel discussions, “Whistleblowing:
Exposing injustices or undermining institutions?” held on February 27.
The response came in the form of an article in Oxford University’s student newspaper, Cherwell,
June 7 under the headline “Union denies censoring whistleblowing panel video.” In it, the Oxford Union’s society bursar Lindsey Warne and
current president Gui Cavalcanti use evasions and lies against one of
the panel members, human rights activist Heather Marsh.
As the World Socialist Web Site has explained, “Records of
the event, including transcripts and videos, have been withheld from
publication.” The only plausible reason for this was to suppress Marsh’s
devastating criticism of one of her co-panelists—former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative David Shedd.
For more than three months Oxford Union have kept silent on why the
event was not reported. This is despite repeated requests by Marsh,
asking when the video of the panel would be uploaded and why this was
not being done.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) has
made its own attempts to establish on whose authority and on what
grounds the panel was censored but has been ignored.
Only after Marsh visited Oxford Union in person in April did she
receive a response. Marsh states that Warne informed her that Shedd had
pressured for the video to be withheld—something Warne now claims she
never said.
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