marc wadsworth spoke with john ross, among others he had worked with on the left, for socialist action's support for the new campaign and ross suggested appointing the left-wing london labour mp ken livingstone as co-chair of the ara. wadsworth proposed cardinal basil hume's race advisor leela ramdeen as the other co-chair, to engage black faith groups. a number of socialist action members were put on the executive committee, because of their campaigning abilities, including redmond o'neill and others later appointed advisers to livingstone when he was mayor of london. anne kane of socialist action was full-time assistant secretary, but was later fired for gross misconduct. its vice-chair was lee jasper.