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The September 2025 Trade Union Congress passed a motion called Wages not Weapons. This motion reversed the decision of  a motion passed  a few years ago supporting increases in defence spending. This is a very welcome development.

In June 2025 NATO called on all of its member states to increase its defence expenditure as a percentage of GDP to 5% by 2030. This would mean massive cuts in public expenditure in countries like Britain.

NATO has become a very war monger organisation in recent years. Adopting a very hostile attitude to both Russia and China. This started after the fascist coup in Ukraine in February 2014 when the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovich who favoured a neutral Ukraine was overthrown.

Besides welcoming  the  passing of the Trade Union Congress Wages not Weapons motion which is a vote for peace. We should also fight for a Socialist Britain and a Socialist World based on peace,justice and equality.

Kevin O’Connor
SLP Member, London

In these days of supplicant and compliant MSM journalism, it was a breath of fresh air watching the independant media organisation, Declassified UK, demonstrate what proper journalism should look like, here in the UK.

Somehow, they managed to enter Downing Street and be present for the arrival of Isaac Herzog’s motorcade. This president, is the same Isaac Herzog, who had an arrest warrant issued against him in 2024 by the International Criminal Court for plausable crimes against humanity, committed against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Herzog was asked directly in front of Starmer, whether he was a war criminal. Starmer was asked, “Why are you shaking hands with a man who said there are no innocents in Gaza?”

Starmer simply takes the blood-stained hand and turns his back.

There you have it, Starmer’s government feting murderers and genocidaires in plain sight, openly and unashamedly complicit in genocide.
Watch the video and watch the squirming.

By Allistair Lomax

As the news about the wretched antics of Peter Mandelson hitting the headlines my memories flood back to the 2001 General Election when #ArthurScargill stood for the Socialist Labour Party GB against the aptly named #PrinceOfDarkness Mandelson in the safe Labour seat of Hartlepool and I stood in the adjacent constituency of the safe Labour seat of Redcar (former seat of Mo Mowlam)

Sadly, absolutely nothing has changed with the absolutely despicable Mandelson.

By Johnnie Taylor

Any discussion on the SLP relationship to ‘Your Party’ is in my opinion far too premature at this moment in time as we have no clue as to who they are or what they even represent, which therefore makes it impossible to make any reasoned decisions, but may I make the following observations on any ‘new left party’ that comes into existence?

Any ‘new left party’ may want to consider some of the pitfalls of building any ‘left alliances’.

By allowing any new party to become a “broad church” as some would seem to suggest could and would happen in this case, as history proves, embraces sections which are not committed to a fundamental change in the nature of our society. The term “broad church” was introduced to assist the right-wing, not the Left.

This, therefore, is in my opinion the main problem of why alliances of the left will always fail, and why the SLP should not even consider any alliances, but most importantly for me is the principle of being committed to the eradication of capitalism and the establishment of socialism and common ownership as Clause IV (4) in the Socialist Labour Party GB Constitution clearly states, a principle that we as a party will and cannot move on

The aim of common ownership as set out in Clause IV is designed to clearly commit our Party to a strategy for achieving socialism, that surely is what all of us as socialists should agree to isn’t it comrades?

Johnnie Taylor
SLP London Region

Dear Comrades,

The Socialist Labour Party is hoping to stand as many candidates as possible in the elections in Scotland,Wales and England next year (2026).

If you would like to be considered as a candidate, could you let me know, please, so we can try to coordinate the campaigns.

As a candidate your views must align with the SLP constitution and position, as outlined in the party’s Manifesto.

And, of course, you must be a fully paid-up member of the party.

If you wish to be considered, please give me your name, region and contact details so that we can all work together.

Please contact me on christopherbutler1@mac.com.

The Socialist Labour Party has a lot to offer to achieve a just, socialist alternative to the disaster the other parties are making.

Solidarity,

Chris Butler,

Elections Nomination Officer, Socialist Labour Party

We are witnessing one of the most blatant hypocritical propaganda campaigns on an international scale since the Nazi German fascist campaign in the 1930s.

We are witnessing NATO, the European Union, the United States of America and individual countries, including the United Kingdom condemning Russia for its conflict with Ukraine and pouring billions of dollars, euros and pounds sterling into Ukraine on the grounds it is a crime to occupy the whole or part of another country.

Yet Nato, the European Union, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom are all bloody hypocrites as the following shows:

Nato and the EU supported the overthrow of democratically elected governments in Yugoslavia, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, all instigated by the United States

The United States have occupied part of Cuba (Guantanamo Bay) and supported the overthrow of governments throughout the Middle East, above all, these bodies have supported the fascist State of Israel since 1948 in its policy of occupation of land in 1967 and its occupation of Palestinian land and slaughter of Palestinians, including Gaza the West Bank, the Golan Heights, Lebanon. As well as supporting Taiwan (which is recognised as part of China).

To date the British Government has expended over £125 billion in arms and aid to the fascist government of the Ukraine which
gained power as a result of the overthrow of both an elected president and an elected government.

If it is right for the West to support a fascist Ukraine then it’s right to remember it was Ukraine troops who fought with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union and were guards at concentration camps which were liberated by the Red Army who also liberated the Ukraine, Czechoslovaia and Berlin.

If the Western Powers can openly support Israel and to their shame provide it with arms then they cannot justify the very opposite in their attack on Russia when it was Ukraine who breached the agreement concluded at Minsk

Arthur Scargill
President NUM 1982-2002

It is being reported on social media, and consequently ignored by the main stream media, that a civil servant has leaked a set of briefing notes prepared for the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, for her meeting today (8-7-2025) with the Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, in which it is claimed that Nandy will tell Hotovely that the BBC is “institutionally antisemitic” and that “one mistake is an editing error but if you have multiple mistakes you need to look at the leadership”.

And it is further claimed that Nandy will also inform Hotovely that “Glastonbury continues to host acts with vile and inflammatory views”, and that further investigation is required.

This statement flies in the face of the many instances of criticism from external sources over the pro-Israeli bias in the BBC’s coverage of the genocide in Gaza, (which term ‘genocide’ it doggedly refuses to use). Criticism from inside the BBC came from a recent letter drafted by 100 BBC employees to director Tim Davie that accuses the BBC of bias against the Palestinian cause and said:
“All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli government and military. This should be a cause of great shame and concern for everyone at the BBC…”

If this leaked briefing turns out to be true, this has profound and disturbing implications for democracy in the UK. The government is being told to spin a false narrative to its own people, at the behest of the genocidal State of Israel, and forcing the state broadcaster to do the same, in an attempt to suppress dissent.

What is truly shocking, is the extent to which a foreign power, a colonialist, oppressive power, has penetrated the workings of the UK government, to attempt to tighten its grip on our media, in order to silence the voices of opposition to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

We are literally being forced by a Labour government to ‘reject the evidence of your eyes and ears’ in true Orwellian fashion.

We must resist it at all cost, keep control of the narrative and ensure that the truth is heard.

Allistair Lomax

Of the 336 MPs who voted for the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill,  333 were Labour MPs, only 49 Labour MPs voted against.

The Bill passed, subject to review. It has only been delayed in its full implementation. It should never have been voted for on any terms by the majority of Labour MPs. It will create a two-tier system; existing claimants getting access to PIP, but future claimants being denied.

This is a huge cut, similar to the 2017 cut of Child Tax Credit being limited to two children for each family. The health element of Universal Credit looks like being cut much soon.

People under 22 years of age were being focused on to be cut from this. Even before this Bill was passed welfare budget cuts were passed by Conservative governments from 2010.

The new Labour government continued the roll out of Universal Credit, which was always a cut of benefits. It abolishes separate benefits by phasing them out. Disabled people, of working age, depend on PIP as essential support. PIP is the gateway for getting more income under Universal Credit, as Pension Credit is for pensioners. Using one gateway to access essential support acts as a deliberate cut.

Many single State pensioners are caught by a rise of £s a week, it goes over the limit for Pension Credit; thousands of £s a year is lost to them. Couple State pensioners can not only lose Pension Credit, but Housing benefit and Council Tax Exemption too.

Before this Bill there was hardship, sometimes resulting in deaths. NATO expansion and the proxy war in Ukraine caused high energy bills.

At the recent NATO meeting Keir Starmer promised 5% of GDP on Defence by 2035. Twelve new F35 nuclear capable planes were bought from the USA, costing £1 billion. Hundreds of Storm Shadow long range Missiles have been sent to Ukraine, costing £2 million each. The new Trident nuclear weapons and Submarines will cost an estimated £205 billion.

We can afford welfare not warfare.

Welfare is being cut to finance the warfare.

The Socialist Labour Party has been campaigning for a peaceful future since before this century.

Join us!

Kathrine Jones, Vice President, Socialist Labour Party.