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I anticipated that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham would change the policy of his predecessor, Keir Starmer, and stop supporting the NATO-provoked war in Ukraine. 

There’s a clear economic reason:  since 2022, the UK has spent at least £35 billion on Ukraine, far more than the cost of The Triple Lock – now under threat – which protects pensioners’ incomes.

Equally important is the historic fact that in 2014  a democratically elected President of Ukraine was deposed in a coup d’état (backed by Western powers).  Since then Ukraine’s successive governments have been controlled by heirs of the same forces that fought alongside the Nazis against the Soviet Union in the Second World War.

NATO wanted the civil war that began in 2014.  That civil war, started by the Kyiv regime against Ukraine’s eastern provinces provoked the Russian response that began in 2022. 

The Ukraine/Russia war has nothing to do with the safety or welfare of the UK or any other NATO member nation, yet our country together with the European Union and NATO is doing everything to keep it going.

I admit I was encouraged by some of Andy Burnham’s campaign pledges earlier this year, but continuing our country’s involvement in this dreadful conflict renders those pledges useless. I don’t know if he does consider himself a Socialist.  If he did, he would give a lead to other Western nations:  stop providing funds and equipment for further slaughter, insist on peace negotiations now, and pull the UK out of this ultimately futile support for NATO’s war in Ukraine.

Arthur Scargill

President 

National Union of Mineworkers

1982 to 2002                                                           11 October 2026

I applaud Gavin Bazunu, the Irish goalkeeper who has refused to play against Israel and I hope sportspeople, in all countries, will follow suit.

Arthur Scargill

President

National Union of Mineworkers

1982 – 2002

Yesterday (10th of September), the Ministry of Defence released a clip of the Secretary of State for Defence, Wes Streeting, speaking in Parliament, replete with his Union Jack and Ukraine flag lapel badges.
In his statement, Streeting claimed that:

“The UK is not at war with Russia, nor do we seek confrontation with Russia, nor do we have any quarrel with the Russian people.”

This statement was made despite the fact that Boris Johnson admitted in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in November, 2024 that the UK was fighting a proxy war against Russia, in Ukraine, and more importantly this was said despite the financial commitments made by the previous Starmer government of £25 billion, backed by £3 billion in military assistance, “for as long as it takes”.
So far, the Burnham government has not given any indication that it will renege from this commitment.

Streeting’s rhetoric belies the recent deal with Zelensky’s government, sharing the blueprints for the French/UK SCALP missiles and the provision of Storm Shadow missiles, which have already been used to hit civilian infrastructure in Russia. Only 3 days ago (8-9-2026), the MOD announced a £100 million package to provide Patriot ‘defence’ missiles to Ukraine, including;

“Britain’s commitment to provide over 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year continues, with 25,000 delivered to date, a figure set to ramp up ahead of the winter. These include interceptors that take out Russian drones, reconnaissance drones that enable the Armed Forces of Ukraine to see what is happening on the battlefield and behind enemy lines, as well as attack drones that help Ukraine take the fight to Russia.”

Once again, we see the current Labour tendency to put a large gap between rhetoric and reality. We see rhetoric of defence, and the reality of pouring arms into Ukraine backed up with a Russo-phobic, warmongering media campaign. All to persuade us that our enemy is Russia. We are daily seeing posts from the right-wing media warning us of a likely war with Russia, a constant ramping-up of militaristic language.

The bigger question is, who is our real enemy?

It’s no accident that UK media has been feeding us stories about the need to cut benefit spending in the UK.
The Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Daily Telegraph, David Blair said on the 6th of September that;

“…the UK’s state pension triple lock is fiscally unsustainable and must be scrapped to prioritise national defence spending.”

Kemi Badenoch likewise in an interview for the Today program, on the 10th of September, argued for cuts in relation to housing benefit. She said;

“What we’re doing is making sure that people are protected, but capping the amount that people get on benefits because we need to look after our national security.”

At a time where the working classes are being tightly squeezed by increases in the cost of living, housing, privatisation of our NHS and constant restrictions on public services, the right-wing defaults to attacking working class people by seeking to impoverish them by cutting back on pensions and benefits for those people who are really struggling, in favour of pouring money into the pockets of their friends in the Industrial Military Complex.

It’s obvious that our real enemy is closer to home. It is those in our country who think nothing of turning the economic screws on working class people, making housing and rents more expensive, with food and energy bills ever increasing, getting further beyond the reach of ordinary people.

This is the real enemy that we need to be fighting against; poverty, injustice and governments who act in the interests of rich elites, and not in the interests of the people.
The real enemy are those who would deny us a decent wage, good social housing, pensions that give our old people a dignified life, provide our young people with a decent job and worthwhile apprenticeships. The very people who work to deny us the dignity of a decent standard of living.

Our real enemy and our real fight is much closer to home.

Allistair Lomax, Socialist Labour Party

Andy Burnham virtually daily piles idiocy upon duplicity. So far we have had his David Brentish guitar plucking in Ukraine whilst simultaneously squandering billions as well as taking another massive step towards war and Armageddon, his u-turn on political donations, proposed scrapping of local planning control in the interests of the worst reactionary US corporations, his workfare proposal for youth and now his latest gaffe telling the Irish people what’s good for them.

The prospect for an Irish so-called border poll cannot be “off the table” because it’s written into the Good Friday Agreement which binds Britain, Ireland and the international community to a process which determines whether and when such a vote will take place.

Burnham appears way out his depth and very much like the fictional character David Brent apparently clueless as to what to do about anything and everything.

Jim McDaid, Socialist Labour Party

In my part of the country, we have a saying; “ ’Gob can say ‘owt”. Meaning that there is often a big difference between what people say and what people do.

In the case of Andy Burnham, the gap is proving to be very wide. Burnham made big promises to address the issue of Youth Employment, yet his announced response is both pitiful and worthy of contempt.

Yesterday (26-8-2026) Burnham said of young people;

“They have been let down by a system that told them there was only one route to success, and then left them without the opportunities to get their foot in the door anywhere else…The youth unemployment crisis has been ignored for too long.

That ends now.”

So, what is Burnhams magic solution to youth unemployment?

In conjunction with the supermarket company, Sainsbury’s, Burnham will create 10,000 ‘work experience opportunities’ over the next year for young people through its new programme, ironically named, ‘KickStarter’. All that is being offered, in fact, is workfare.

Sainsburys is a company that donates to all the major political parties, including Labour, (including a donation from Lord Sainsbury of almost £165,000), and it has recently shed thousands of jobs (3000+) over the last year as part of a massive £1 billion cost-saving initiative. Bear in mind also that a good proportion of its staff are likely to be already low-paid enough to be in receipt of Universal Credit, (across the UK, roughly 32% to 38% of all Universal Credit claimants are actively employed (in-work claimants). Retail and hospitality are among the sectors with the highest volume of part-time, flexible contracts that qualify for benefit top-ups.).

So, Burnham’s big initiative to help young people into work, is to offer them to Sainsburys as cheap labour.

Burnham’s great strategy will be to ‘kickstart’ the careers of our young people by forcing them to stack shelves, working for nothing, in exchange for their benefits, and in all likelihood, have those benefits removed if they refuse.

This is nothing better than indentured servitude, a work practice that should have been assigned to history long ago. Our young people deserve much better than this. They deserve proper employment, apprenticeships with good training, jobs with decent wages and conditions. The kick start they are getting, is a kick in the teeth from this Labour government.

The manifesto of the Socialist Labour Party lays out the case for decent jobs and training for our young people.

“Full employment and equal pay policies are necessary to help achieve a fair chance for all Britain’s young people. Such policies would help rebuild Britain’s industrial and manufacturing base – provided there are policies to restore Britain as an industrial and manufacturing nation.

It is essential to establish proper apprenticeship schemes, paying a full wage during the period of apprenticeship.”

What our young people need are real jobs and apprenticeships;

They need work not workfare!

Allistair Lomax (Socialist Labour Party)

Recently appointed British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is intent on following in the footsteps of not only his immediate predecessor Keir Starmer but also those Tory PM’s including the utterly appalling Boris Johnson in his slavish acquiescence to those globalist forces led by the US in the drive to control or contain those countries looking to maintain their national sovereignty in the interests of their peoples and national interests against global capitalism.

Burnham’s recent visit to Ukraine and pledging of on-going financial and military support of the US/NATO proxy war against Russia is a disaster economically for this country with £billions being wasted on destruction (and enriching of weapons manufacturing corporations!) rather than investment in our NHS, education system or productive industrial development. His policy may also shortly lead to facilities in this country involved in the production of weaponry used to attack deep into Russian territory being directly targeted militarily.

No equivalent support is ever considered for assisting Palestine whose people are subjected to ongoing genocidal attack and slaughter by Israel and in this can be clearly seen the objectives of the British government.

The Socialist Labour Party condemns the actions and intentions of PM Burnham and his vassal government and demands a halt to ongoing escalation in Ukraine urging instead a policy of diplomacy to avert war and catastrophe using available funds to support our public services and to provide essential support for those in desperate need in parts of the world like Palestine.

The Socialist Labour Party

The news from Ferguson Marine is a damning indictment of the Scottish government’s ferry procurement strategy. The yard need not face an “inevitable gap” and be “forced” to shed 70 skilled posts with proper contract management resulting in its core staff dropping from 247 to just 177 – ministers have yet to even contact the Competition and Markets Authority about the four promised new vessels. Meanwhile, the government continues to farm out vital shipbuilding contracts to foreign yards. Repeatedly, CMAL has turned to overseas shipbuilders in Poland and Turkey to construct ferries, often citing delays at Ferguson. Yet the irony is palpable: sending contracts abroad creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. By starving the Port Glasgow yard of continuity the government guarantees the very capacity constraints they claim necessitate using foreign yards.

The Economic Case for Port Glasgow

Building these four vessels locally is not mere sentiment; it is sound economics. Ferguson Marine supports a vast supply chain across the West of Scotland – from Glasgow’s steel fabricators and marine engineers to local electricians and logistics firms. Every £1 spent on local shipbuilding generates a significant multiplier effect that evaporates when taxpayers’ money flows to Gdansk or Istanbul. Moreover, the yard currently holds 32 apprentices. Without new orders, these apprentices face a bleak future, extinguishing a generation of Clyde-based skills that have been painstakingly nurtured. Localising the contracts ensures these high-value technical jobs remain in Scotland, bolstering the regional economy rather than subsidising competitor nations.

The Social Imperative

Socially, the stakes could not be higher. Inverclyde has already lost 1,500 jobs in recent years. Ferguson Marine is the last commercial yard on the Clyde, and its potential demise would strike a devastating blow to community morale and identity. Shipbuilding is woven into the fabric of Port Glasgow; losing it forcing highly skilled workers to seek employment elsewhere in the UK or abroad, further hollowing out the local population.The government must halt its “due diligence” procrastination. It needs to directly award the promised contracts, bypassing the failed competitive procurement models that have sent money overseas, and instead invest in the country’s own industrial resilience. To do otherwise is not just a betrayal of a “blameless workforce,” as the GMB union aptly put it, but a systemic failure to protect the economic and social future of the West of Scotland.

Jim McDaid, Leader of The Socialist Labour Party

The Socialist Labour Party is unequivocally opposed to nuclear weapons.

On this day 81 years ago America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing instantly in excess of 100,000 innocent people. Many more died later because of injuries and the effect of radiation. This was the first use of such a weapon of mass destruction. A second A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later killing many more. America claimed it was to force Japan to surrender in WW2.

The truth is that Japan was already in negotiations to surrender. The only sticking point was the future role of the Emperor Hirohito. The use of these weapons of mass destruction was totally unnecessary. It was a show of strength by America against the Soviet Union.

Nuclear weapons do not protect. If ever used they will kill friend and foe alike. For that reason they are not a deterrent. They must never be used. America has again a war- monger as president who has shown his love for conflict. He has shown he is capable of leading the world into war. Nuclear weapons must be destroyed from the 9 countries that have them. If not the world has no future.

No to nuclear weapons.

No to militarism.

No to increased spending on weapons.

Yes to spending on the essentials of life.

That is the policy of the Socialist Labour Party.

Chris Butler – 6th August 2026

In July, the last statement of the Starmer led government told the British people to store food,water and essentials in case of a Russian cyber attack.

A huge Civil Defence exercise is planned for 2027.

Only a few years ago there were empty shelves and panic during the Covid Pandemic.

In the Cold War Era we were given such useless and threatening advice; “in case of a nuclear attack”, that many of us protested at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.

We are still tied to NATO,s forever wars, led by the USA. Iran is again being bombed by B1 bombers from USAF Fairford, in England.Mainstream media thinks calling them RAF Bases neutralises the demand for the USAF to leave Britain.Something long overdue, since the end of the Second World War.

Billions of £s have been spent on the Ukraine War,with no mandate to fire Storm Shadow Missiles and drones into Russia.

PM Starmer resigned when £15 billion couldn,t be found for the Defence Investment Plan.

PM Burnham says it will be found,and upholds international defence committments.

No change to the 3% GDP on Defence, with 5% promised, backing Zelensky and firing long range missiles into Russia. The complicity in genocide against Gaza,and Lebanon continues.

NATO war plans against Russia, aimed for 2030, are behind advice on Russian cyber attacks.

We are in climate crisis, with crops dehydrated, fires and drought.Gas, diesel and petrol costs are unaffordable,with two wars raging there may soon be no resupply.Winter is soon.

PM Burnham committed to these wars when he should have chosen peace.The spending on these wars is not compatible with taking care of the British people.At a time of austerity and wars, we will need food banks and emergency stores because of no change in government policy.

Kathrine Jones Socialist Labour Party, Wales.

The situation in the Spanish colony Ceuta has once again brought the question of immigration and migration to the fore. Whether or not the current incident was a manufactured, hybrid war event brought on by elements hostile to Spanish government policy towards the US and Israel is an open question.

However the matter of current British government policy on immigration and migration remains.

The SLP policy on immigration and economic migration is based on the understanding that the crisis facing Britain is caused by the EU’s adoption of the Nice Treaty in 2001, resulting in the open borders within the EU which it needs for globalisation.

When the Nice Treaty was signed in 2001, the population of Britain was 59 million and the number of asylum seekers and immigrants roughly equalled the number of people emigrating from Britain. The policy introduced by the EU removed border controls, resulting in people from 25 countries being able to freely enter other EU countries.

This has been the major factor in increasing the British population to 70 million, having a dramatic effect on budgets and public spending designed for a smaller population.

Other countries have also been affected by problems created by overcrowding – problems which include the intensified rise of right-wing elements, which we warned would happen.

The Socialist Labour Party policy on immigration/emigration is clear. A sensible and fair immigration policy should give priority to asylum seekers, citizens of countries previously ‘ruled’ by Britain, limited to the number of people emigrating each year.

Socialist Labour Party July 2026

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.

Socialist Labour Party
11th of July 2026

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!

By SLP member Denis Doody

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.

Arthur Scargill

Socialist Labour Party

5 July 2026

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

By Arthur Scargill

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).

Arthur Scargill 29th of June, 2026

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

28th of May, 2026

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.

Viva Raul !

Raul Es Raul !

Denis Doody

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.

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/chinas-converts-coal-into-electricity

Socialist Labour Party