I call upon the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, to stop supporting the “government” of Ukraine which came to power in a coup d’état in 2014. The people who staged the coup were the same fascists who fought with the German Nazis in the Second World War.
This policy would save British taxpayers between £60 billion and £100 billion and help pay for our Health Service, Education, and Britain’s disabled, address the issue of homelessness, and support our pensioners, and above all, enable our country to be self-sufficient.
The slaughter of innocents, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine/Gaza has been condemned by the United Nations, supported by the overwhelming majority of countries throughout the world. The SLP welcomes the January 2024 judgement of the International Court of Justice condemning the genocidal action of Israel in Gaza. We also welcome the May 2024 call by Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. We support the isolation of the Apartheid Israeli state, Britain should withdraw diplomatic and all other relations, refuse to have any financial dealings with and indeed fully sanction the Israeli state until a Palestinian state is established with the right of full return for all exiled Palestinians and their descendants. The SLP stands in full solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The world is in a perilous state – in danger of nuclear annihilation. We have been driven to this situation by increasingly desperate, warmongering elites and governments. The conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have their roots in this approach by western governments and there is the potential for more war and destruction because of US aggression towards China. The SLP opposes all this madness and stands for internationalism, friendship between nations and peoples and against war.
The SLP does not adopt a position in support of any capitalist country. However, we are aware of the origins of the Ukraine – Russia conflict. In short, it is because of NATO expansion, the 2014 CIA organised coup against the democratically elected Ukrainian President and government, and the civil war launched by the Ukrainian coup leaders against their own citizens in the Donbass region of that country. Even after Russia’s intervention in 2022 the then Ukrainian government had an opportunity to come to a settlement with the “Minsk” accords. Their own negotiators signed but goaded by then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (seen recently in a leaked video lauding the openly fascist AZOV brigade) the agreement was reneged on by President Zelensky. Unfortunately for Ukraine any future deal is likely to be so much less agreeable.
The SLP is clear; we oppose globalisation as we do NATO expansionism and US aggression – we say stop funding war. Let us begin working towards a world truly at peace with liberty, justice and prosperity for all.
Farage calls it a personal gift, others call it a bung, an undeclared bung. Bung or gift it will cost the British taxpayers £250,000 to run the by-election his resignation has now caused, a by-election that will probably be only contested by Farage and Count Binface. This is nothing short of contempt and abuse of the electorate in what passes for a so called democratic electoral system that’s rapidly resembling the illusion of democracy in the USA, where donors and lobby groups have far more influence over government policy than millions of voters.
Today here in the UK we have property magnates, Bio Pharma entrepreneurs, Supermarket chains, Health Tech companies, Hedge Funds who have millions of pounds invested in arms companies selling arms to genocidal states such as Israel. Aside from these organisations we have former government ministers lobbying on behalf of the arms industry and oil and energy giants, all buying government influence and shaping policy that the ordinary man and women in the street have no hope of competing against.
The five million quid Farage pocketed is a sum of money beyond most people’s dreams, but it’s a part of the process of what buys influence, government taxpayer funded contracts into everything from the NHS to the Ministry of Defence and to local government.
Who owns who and what today in Britain, who do politicians work for and on whose behalf, it’s certainly not for us!
US President Trump threatens to invade Cuba yet again and completely occupy the whole island as the United States did from 1899 to the 1950s.
In 1961, the US invaded Cuba in an operation which became known as “The Bay of Pigs”, seeking to restore the island to the millionaires and gangsters who for decades had regarded Cuba as their playground.
The attempt in1961 was defeated, yet the United States managed to keep a base in the part of Cuba known as Guantanamo Bay – which, shockingly and shamefully, it still occupies today.
In 1962 the Soviet Union provided Cuba with nuclear missile sites to defend Cuba from U.S. attack. US aggressive reaction nearly led to a nuclear war. Conflict was averted by negotiations between the Soviet Union and the US.
Today, the Socialist Labour Party calls on Russia and China to make clear that any invasion of Cuba by the United States will be met with an attack on the U.S. by Russia and China – even if, tragically, it leads to nuclear war. Donald Trump’s United States will recognise no other language.
We are dismayed to hear of Kier Starmer’s proposals to increase the UK’s defence spending by £15 Billion. This will inevitably lead to cuts in public services when our country is already reeling from decades of austerity.
Moreover, the earthquake disaster in Venezuela demands a positive and immediate response from the UK government, with the UN predicting that 10,000 people will die as a consequence.
We demand that the British Government re-examines it’s priorities and directs the money that would be spent on weapons of war to humanitarian aid for the people of Venezuela.
People are more important than weapons.
Arthur Scargill, Jim McDaid, Chris Butler, John Tyrell, Kathrine Jones and Allistair Lomax Socialist Labour Party
I hope Andy Burnham will cut the Government Spending on arms in both the United Kingdom and sales to other countries, in particular the total waste of money pledged to the fascist government in Ukraine. A regime which seized power in a coup d’etat in 2014, which forced a president to flee for his life and whose army has units bearing the name of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) that fought alongside the Nazis in WWII.
I note also Poland has stripped Volodymyr Zelensky of their Order of the White Eagle because of his decision to name an Ukraine Army unit after the aforementioned Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Starmer is determined not to leave office quietly. He has been making offers to his chief adversary, Andy Burnham, of a high position in his administration if he doesn’t challenge his leadership.
Whether it is coincidental today, Moscow has suffered serious drone attacks. The person sabre rattling is not Starmer but Zelensky still acting as the legitimate holder of power in the Ukraine. The forcible removal of the democratically elected leader in 2014 led by Biden’s U.S. presidency is still widely supported, not least by the U.K. government. As with Trump using his position of U.S. President, Keir Starmer continues to support Zelensky’s leadership while western governments have poured in huge sums for modern armaments. It has been clear to all that the use of them will depend on technical knowledge and skills possessed by NATO personnel. Starmer makes no secret of the fact that he supports provocation of Russia and is said to be the leading advocate among NATO allies. The attacks are effectively declarations of war against Russia. It is quite legitimate for them to retaliate.
Starmer makes no secret of the fact that he supports provocation of Russia and is said to be the leading advocate among NATO allies….
As with Trump, Starmer appears to regard himself as free to make personal decisions without reference to Parliament or to the views of the British people. They want to see money spent on welfare. They want peace not war with health and education properly funded.
Instead under Starmer’s leadership we see many protestors, young and old, criminalised and jailed with substantial sentences, labelled as ‘terrorists’.
People are very angry.
Clearly Starmer is keen to hang on. We know he was given support from discredited individuals such as Peter Mandelson so there are people at high level who have reason to keep him in place. His very strong support for the genocidal government of Israel and fascist set up in Ukraine indicated he is still needed. His front bench, including all major office holders are all friends of Israel reportedly having accepted payment.
There is continuing talk of conscription. If that goes ahead we could find our young people compelled to fight on behalf of corrupt and illegitimate governments.
Starmer can’t go quickly enough it seems.
John Tyrrell President of the Socialist Labour Party
The Socialist Labour Party UK wishes to express its support for, and solidarity with the people and government of the Republic of Cuba during this time.
We are alarmed at the increasing escalation of threats against the people and government of Cuba emanating from the United States, via the Trump administration.
We are particularly concerned to hear of the United States intention to indict former president Raúl Castro, and other members of the Cuban Government, and hear reports of the possibility that the United States will carry out the same kidnapping techniques as it deployed against the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
We condemn without reserve any attempts by the United States to interfere in the affairs of another sovereign state.
For 67 years, the United States has repeatedly tried to frustrate and destroy the socialist revolution instigated by the people of Cuba, through economic warfare, political aggression and destabilisation, which has caused untold suffering to the people of Cuba. This is against the backdrop of Cuba’s contribution to the world through its initiatives in health care and biotechnology.
We urge socialists, elected representatives, people and governments everywhere to join in condemnation of the aggressive imperialism of the United States and join together in calling for de-escalation and the cessation in interference in the affairs of the Republic of Cuba.
Declaración del Partido Laborista Socialista (Reino Unido) 28 de mayo de 2026
El Partido Laborista Socialista (Reino Unido) desea expresar su apoyo y solidaridad con el pueblo y el gobierno de la República de Cuba en estos momentos.
Estamos alarmados por la creciente escalada de amenazas contra el pueblo y el gobierno de Cuba por parte de Estados Unidos, a través de la administración Trump.
Nos preocupa especialmente conocer la intención de Estados Unidos de acusar a Raúl Castro, expresidente de Cuba, y otros miembros del gobierno de Cuba, así como escuchar la posibilidad de que Estados Unidos lleve a cabo las mismas técnicas de secuestro que utilizó contra el presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
Condenamos completamente cualquier intento por parte de Estados Unidos de interferir en los asuntos de otro Estado soberano.
Durante 67 años, Estados Unidos ha intentado repetidamente frustrar y destruir la revolución socialista impulsada por el pueblo de Cuba mediante la guerra económica, el bloqueo, la agresión política y la desestabilización.
Esto ocurre en el contexto de la contribución de Cuba al mundo a través de sus iniciativas en el cuidado de la salud y la biotecnología.
Instamos a los socialistas, a los representantes electos, a los pueblos y a los gobiernos de todas partes a unirse en la condena del imperialismo agresivo de Estados Unidos y a exigir la desescalada y el cese de la injerencia en los asuntos de la República de Cuba.
The lawless immoral cesspit of a government in the USA fresh from just murdering 150 young girls and boys and their teachers and thousands of innocent civilians in Iran have indicted former Cuban leader Raul Castro, not content with the inhumanity they have inflicted upon the people of Cuba since the triumph of the revolution they now indict a 94 year old man who’s resisted the terrorism sponsored by the USA against his country for almost seven decades.
Raul’s crime, resisting and defeating the imperialism that had turned his country into a bordello, a Mafia infested refuge, a playground to be used and abused by wealthy yanks, a indictment issued by a rogue nation responsible for the mass murder of millions of people across the planet, from Latin America to South East Asia, to the Middle East and Africa, thank god your empire is dying.
In the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and throughout the 21st Century 2000- 2026 Arthur Scargill has made it clear that the UK could produce clean coal with no carbon emissions.
He not only told miners but also told Government Select Committees. At the time,he was described as talking nonsense.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences at Shenzhen University have produced coal which converts – coal- into electricity without any carbon emissions. (See link below).
Scargill was supported by Tony Benn in two public inquiries at Sizewell and Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Stations.
The SLP’s policy is to eradicate fuel poverty by taking all forms of energy production and energy supply into public ownership. The cost of providing heat and power should be subsidised so that people have one standard affordable supply of energy which is not designed to make profits for shareholders or pay millions in salaries and bonus to people who control energy industries.
The situation has become worse during the past 10 years, particularly because of the slaughter of Britain’s deep mine coal industry, the most efficient and economic deep coal industry in the world.
We were told that the closure of Britain’s 170 coal mines with the loss of 170,000 jobs and the destruction of mining communities should improve our environment by reducing CO2 emissions. It is therefore surprising – to some – that in 2015 the level of pollution, in particular the level of CO2, in cities like London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Cardiff saw an increase in CO2 levels.
However, all this technology has been abandoned. As a result, the UK is now dependent on imported coal (4 million tonnes per year), imported gas including LPG gas, imported oil and imported electricity from French nuclear power stations, a policy which is costing UK taxpayers a fortune.
Having taken the decision to destroy our valuable indigenous deep mine coal reserves we now see 80% of CO2 emissions directly related to the use of oil and gas – while the Government desperately continues to pursue a nuclear power programme, apparently oblivious of the nuclear disasters at Windscale (now called Sellafield in 1957); Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl, (1986) and Fukushima (2011); disasters which resulted in Germany, Italy, Japan, and many other nations abandoning nuclear power.
The price for deadly nuclear power is astronomic. It is more expensive than coal produced with carbon capture, and more expensive than gas. For years Britain subsidised its nuclear power industry to the tune of £1.3 billion a year and is now subsidising the development of a new nuclear power station at Sizewell with others mooted. This is despite further serious nuclear incidents in Ukraine and particularly in France in a nuclear power station which is the same type as the Sizewell project.
While developing properly our renewable energy sources – in particular, solar power – Britain needs a long-term integrated energy policy based on a deep mine coal industry, publicly owned and controlled, fitted with carbon capture technology which would produce the cheapest electricity from reserves that would last a thousand years.
