From Rob Hawkins, St Austell, Cornwall, Ron Sinclair St Peter’s Square, Manchester, Comrades from the Socialist Labour Party and Indian Workers’ Association in Central Birmingham. Please send in your photos! Rob Hawkins in St Austell, Cornwall, Wednesday 1st February Day of Action against Bill to outlaw strikes. St Peter’s Square, Manchester (Peterloo Massacre 1819). From Ron Sinclair. SLP North West Region. Members of Socialist Labour Party and Indian Workers’ Association in Birmingham. Today, 1/2/2023, in Birmingham thousands of school teachers, lecturers, nurses, firefighters, ambulance drivers and many more uniom mebers were on strike to protest against government austerity, inflation, work conditions and Unions say this is only just the beginning. Bhagwant Singh, Secretary IWA, Socialist Labour Party member.
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Demonstration in support of freeing Ukrainian Political Prisoners.
A demonstration was held in Central London on 28th January near to Downing Street and Comrade Kevin O’Connor, SLP London Region attended. Comrade Ian Donovan sent the photograph. Thanks. https://actofdefiance.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/international-ukraine-anti-fascist-solidarity-demo-london-28th-january-2023/ Next Wednesday, 1st February, is a day of action against the Government proposals to outlaw strikes. Comrades have indicated they will join actions in Birmingham, Manchester and Cornwall. If you are joining protests please let us know and send a brief report with a photograph. In recent months Arthur Scargill, Ken Capstick, Nell Myers and others have joined picket lines and had considerable media coverage. Each region has a banner and secretaries contacts are shown under te section on Regions.
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DEFEND LULA da SILVA – DEFEND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL
FOR THE PAST YEARS WE HAVE WITNESSED THE USA AND NATO INVADE ( UNLAWFULLY) IRAQ IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW ITS PRESIDENT AN ACTION WHICH COST OVER A MILLION LIVES BOTH IN IRAQ, AMERICAN AND BRITISH LIVES. THE USA FOLLOWED THIS WITH AN ATTACK IN LIBYA WHICH HAS LEFT THOUSANDS DEAD OR DISABLED AND LEFT A COUNTRY IN CHAOS AND AFTER 20 YEARS LEFT AFGHANISTAN AFTER BEING DEFEATED LIVING A COUNTRY IN UTTER RUIN WITH THOUSANDS DEAD AND DISABLED AND ITS ECONOMY IN A COMPLETE MESS. WE HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YET AGAIN THE USA CURRENTLY LOOKING AFTER THE DEFEATED CANDIDATE BOLSONARO ARE INVOLVED IN THE ATTEMPTED COUP d’ETAT DESIGNED TO OVERTHROW LULA AS PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL, WE BELIVE THAT LULA SHOULD CALL ON THE WORKING CLASS TO DEFEND THE ELECTED PRESIDENT AND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL THE USA HAS OVERTHROWN THE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CHILE AND WERE INVOLVED IN HIS MURDER. SINCE 1959 THE USA HAS IMPOSED SANCTIONS AND ATTEMPTED TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF CUBA AND EVEN TODAY OCCUPY PART OF CUBA IN GUATANAMO BAY ITS POLICY IS CLEAR – PURSUE OUR CAPITALIST SYSTEM OR WE WILL IMPOSE IT ON YOU. EVERY DAY THE FASCIST STATE OF ISRAEL UNLAWFULLY OCCUPY PALESTINIAN LANDS AND DRIVE OUT PALESTINIAN PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMES ON PALESTINIAN LAND AND HAVE AND ARE MURDERING THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, THE USA AND NATO HAVE ACTED IN BREACH OF EVERY AGREEMENT SINCE THE SOVIET UNION AGREED WITH THE USA AND NATO THAT NATO WOULD NOT ENCROACH ON ANY WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES NATO SUPPORTED FORMER WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES JOINING NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION AND. HAS MOVED CLOSER TO THE BORDERS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. THE CURRENT ACTION IN THE UKRAINE HAS BEEN CAUSED BY NATO STATIONING ITS FORCES ON THE BORDER WITH RUSSIA AND TOGETHER WITH THE USA SUPPORTING. THE OVERTHROW IN 2014 OF THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UKRAINE IN 2010. A NEW REGIME HAS SUSPENDED OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES AND ATTACK AREAS WHO HAVE EXPRESSED THAT THEY WANTED TO REMAIN CONNECTED WITH RUSSIA ARTHUR SCARGILL SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY 9/1/2023
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Disband NATO. Close USA Bases in Britain
On the 12th of December 1982 women at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp held the “Embrace The Base” demonstration outside the fence of USAF Greenham Common. 30,000 women surrounded the Base, which was about to become the site for 96 Cruise Missiles with nuclear warheads. We had organised for many months for this demonstration.The next day there was non-violent direct action. Gates were blockaded and women were arrested. Some of us had already been to prison, but those blockades were the start of resistance to Cruise Missile Convoys being deployed on exercise to Salisbury Plain.The years that followed were hard on those of us who lived at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camps. There were constant evictions. Bailiffs and police would demand tents were moved. We moved them back when they left. Repeat evictions several times a day in the worst years reduced to once a day, then a few times a week.There were huge evictions too, with hundreds of police. We endured and remained. Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp stayed for 19 years outside the Main Gate until 5th of September 2000. We witnessed Cruise Missiles and the USAF leave, the Base close down and Greenham Common returned as Common Land. A Peace Garden was built, with money raised by us, at the site of the original Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.Thousands of women were arrested and imprisoned, many of us repeatedly. Helen Thomas; a young Welsh woman was killed by a West Midlands police horse box as she waited to cross the road on 5th August,1989. We experienced the struggle against a State which was determined to protect USA nuclear weapons in Britain.We faced the threat of guns by the USA and British military. On Halloween 1983 five miles of the nine mile perimeter fence was taken down by women with bolt cutters. This was 6 years before the Berlin Wall was taken down! This was a time when NATO and the Warsaw Pact faced each other across the Berlin Wall.The Warsaw Pact was disbanded, and the Russian Federation was formed from the break up of the Soviet Union. NATO continued and expanded eastward, despite undertaking not to.What followed was a terrible history of NATO driven war upon war; Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. NATO is an undemocratic military alliance controlled by the USA. NATO sees Russia and China as threats because they have the power to create a multipolar world. NATO can create nothing but an extension of the USA empire so it has advanced to Russia’s borders.The USA has even withdrawn from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces INF) Treaty. During my 17 years at Greenham I advocated a non-aligned stand.This was a part of our opposition to all nuclear weapons. I believe all nuclear weapons are the enemy of humanity and life on Earth. If NATO disbanded there would be an opportunity for nuclear disarmament. The threat of nuclear war which haunts all our lives could be finally ended.The money spent on these weapons should be used for the NHS. Sanctions imposed by the EU and the USA on Russia have caused energy prices to rise to unaffordable levels. It is clear to me who are the aggressors; the elite of militaristic capitalists who hold power in the USA and NATO nations.They have control over proxy states and the EU.They make the NATO policy which causes and arms endless wars in pursuit of world domination.The cost to the majority of us is humanitarian and economic crisis. No nuclear weapons at USAF Lakenheath! Britain out of NATO! Kathrine Jones,vice-president SLP Welsh Region 11/12/2022