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James McDaid is Leader of the SLP
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Socialist Labour Party Welsh Election 2026
Pleidleisiwch Dros Plaid Lafur Sosialaidd, Eich Ymgeisydd KathrineJones. Rwy’n lais yn erbyn y toriadau mewn Credyd Cynhwysol, Credyd Pensiwn ac Budd-dal Tai. Ddylen ni ddim talu am gwariant ar rhyfel gan Yr Llywodraeth Brydeinig. Lles hir nid Rhyfel hir. Cofiwch Gaza, Wcrain, Iran ac y Libanus. O blaid arianu Anghenion Dysgu mewn ysgolion. Diagnosis dim rhestr ddisgwl hir. Cefnogi’r pobol ifanc sy,n colli allan oherwydd y toriadau. Hawlio costiau tegach i,r myfyrwyr, fel yn yr Alban. Ddyle’r Senedd fod yn gyfrifol am y fees. Cydnabod cyfraniad pwysig ffermwyr, felly dduler Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy. Sefyll yn erbyn y cynllun adeiladu Adweithyddion Modiwlar Bach yn Wylfa. Mae wraniwm sydd wedi ei gyfoethogi yn llygredd gwenwinig. Cefnogi’r G.I.G yma, sydd o dan mesurau arbennig. Hyn sydd yn argyfwng egni. Mae angen mwy na £27.5 biliwn Llywodraeth San Steffan wedi roi i ni, da ni angen mwy i fod yn gyfartel teg. Roeddwn gweithio mewn hostels am naw mlynedd, fel arlunydd, yn erbyn arfau niwclear Cruise a Trident yn Gwersyll Heddwch Merched, Comin Greenham am 17 mlynedd. Rwy’n byw ym Methesda ers 21 mlynedd. Mae fy ngwr yn dod o yna.
Kathrine Jones, Etholaeth Bangor Conwy Mon Etholiad Senedd Cymru. 7 Mai, 2026.
/Argraffwyd gan Kathrine Jones, 3 Gernant, Braichmelyn, Bethesda, Gwynedd LL57 3RE. kathrinejones01@btinternet.com
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Socialist Labour Party 2026 Election in Wales
Vote Socialist Labour Party, with candidate Kathrine Jones. I am a voice against the cuts in Universal Credit, Pension Credit and Housing Benefit. We should not pay for British government spending on war. Welfare not Warfare. Remember Gaza,Ukraine, Iran and Lebanon. In favour of money for Additional Learning Needs in schools. Diagnosis not waiting lists. Supporting young people who have lost out because of the cuts. Demanding fairer costs for students as in Scotland.. Senedd should pay the fees, as needed. Acknowledging the contribution of farmers, so must the Sustainable Farming Scheme . Standing against building Small Modular Reactors at Wylfa.The enriched uranium is very polluting. Supporting the NHS here, which is in special measures. At a time of energy crisis we need more from the Westminster Labour government than a 27.5 billion budget.This is an austerity budget, we need fairer funding. I have worked as an artist, in hostels for 9 years, and at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp for 17years, against Cruise and Trident nuclear weapons. I have lived in Bethesda for 21years, where my husband is from.
Kathrine Jones, Socialist Labour Party Candidate, Bangor Conwy Mon Constituency, Senedd Cymru Election, on the 7th of May, 2026.
Printed and published by Kathrine Jones, 3 Gernant, Braichmelyn, Bethesda, Gwynedd LL57 3RE. kathrinejones01@btinternet.com.
Welsh text follows.
Socialist Labour Party 16/04/2026 -
Statement on the Present Threat to Iran.
The Labour and Trade Unions movement must stop the madman Trump who is causing death and destruction throughout the whole World.
I support the votes by Russia and China in the UN Security Council and their refusal to accept a United Nations position which would effectively support the maniacal President of the United States and the genocidal Prime Minister of Israel who are slaughtering and disabling hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in the Middle East, Latin America and Greenland.
It’s obvious that words will have no effect in a situation reminiscent of the 1930’s Spanish Civil War.
If Trump and Netanyahu mean what they say then both Russia and China should make clear that if the USA and Israel carry out their threat to destroy Iran then both Russia and China will leash a blitz on Washington and Tel Aviv with the technological weaponry that they possess.
Failure to act – as opposed to words will result in devastation as seen at the end of the Second World War
Arthur Scargill
President
International Energy & Miners.
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Reverse the Decay
Bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis has announced the closure of its Falkirk factory, with 115 job losses. Its nearby Larbert plant will be converted to a chassis manufacturing site, safeguarding around 200 roles that were previously at risk. This comes despite receiving £4.1 million from the Scottish government in September 2025 to protect jobs, after the firm threatened to shift production to Yorkshire, putting up to 400 roles at risk. First Minister John Swinney visited the Larbert factory to announce the bailout. Months later, the axe has fallen anyway. This is a scene oft repeated. A company/bank/post office announces closure, the SNP and the rest fulminate and demand a reversal of the decision – then closure happens and off go the parliamentarians on to the next bandwagon.
Nearby Grangemouth has also faced closure. Scotland’s last oil refinery ceased production in April 2025, with more than 400 direct job losses, destabilising a supply chain of nearly 3,000 workers.
At the same time, Scottish public sector contracts are being sent abroad. The publicly owned CALMAC is having ferries built in Poland (seven new electric ferries) and Turkey (four vessels), while the nationalised Ferguson Marine shipyard misses out. And the bus contracts? Under the Scottish government’s Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB2), 523 electric buses were funded. Fewer than a third (31%) were built in Scotland. More than half—287 buses, 55% of the total—were built in China. That’s nearly four times as many orders to Chinese manufacturers as to Scottish industry.
The series of ineptocratic governments we have seen over decades now need to go. The economy is upside down where something like 20% manufacturing industry is supposed to support 80% services. It is unsustainable.
The Socialist Labour Party has long argued that this needs to be reversed; as manufacturing bleeds jobs and capacity, the economy remains stagnant with manufacturing output in Scotland falling 4.3% in the first half of 2025 yet government plods on into oblivion continuing failed neoliberal policies that enrich an elite that many are now understandably referring to as the “Epstein” class but lead to the impoverishment of working class communities and decrepit, crumbling infrastructure. The SLP manifesto points out how this can be reversed.
You can begin that process by voting Socialist Labour Party on May 7th.
James McDaid
Lead Candidate, West Scotland Region -
Five Questions that UK journalists should be asking the Labour Government, (and are not).
By Allistair Lomax
Despite the protestations from Government ministers, there is little doubt that the UK has been ‘dragged’ into the US/Israel war against Iran. What we see is the mainstream media fulfilling its role as government stenographers by pushing the narrative that Keir Starmer has resisted pressure from Donald Trump to join the war against Iran and that the UK bases are only used for ‘defensive’ operations by the US.
The mainstream media has been deployed to convince the British public that Keir Starmer is, somehow, ‘on the right side of history’.
This is how our media is used to push government propaganda: they are an instrument of government policy rather than a way of forcing the government to account for its duplicity. Their role is to walk lockstep with government policy.
I believe that our journalists should confront the Labour government with these five questions:- What is the verification process for deciding whether a US target in Iran is ‘defensive’ or ‘offensive’?
- Who in the UK government signs off that decision?
- How many US requests for targets in Iran have been rejected by the UK government?
- Is the list of targets attacked by the US shared with the UK, retrospectively?
- Are the numbers of civilian casualties being monitored and reported?
These are the questions that our journalists should be asking the government, if they were worthy of the name. We deserve the truth.
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Open Letter to the World: From Cuba, An Ordinary Woman Denounces the Crime They Refuse to See
To all of humanity, to the mothers of the world, to Doctors Without Borders, to journalists with dignity, to the governments that still believe in justice:
My name is like millions of others. I have no famous last name or important title. I am an ordinary Cuban woman. A daughter, a sister, a patriot. And I write this with a torn soul and trembling hands, because what my people are living through today is not a “crisis.” It is a slow murder—calculated, coldly executed from Washington.
And the world looks the other way.
👵 I DENOUNCE ON BEHALF OF MY GRANDPARENTS:
I denounce that in Cuba, elderly people are dying before their time because the blockade prevents heart medication, blood pressure pills, and diabetes treatments from arriving. It is not a lack of resources. It is a deliberate prohibition. Companies that want to sell to Cuba are fined, hounded, and threatened. Their governments stay silent. Meanwhile, a Cuban grandfather clutches his chest and waits. Death doesn’t give a warning. The blockade does.
👶 I DENOUNCE ON BEHALF OF MY CHILDREN:
I denounce that there are incubators in Cuba that have had to be turned off due to lack of fuel. That there are newborns fighting for their lives while the United States government decides which countries can sell us oil and which cannot. That there are Cuban mothers who have seen their children’s lives endangered because an order signed in an office in Washington is worth more than the cry of a baby 90 miles from its shores.
Where is the international community? Where are the organizations that so fiercely defend childhood? Or do Cuban children not deserve to live?
🍽️ I DENOUNCE INTENTIONAL HUNGER:
I denounce that the blockade is programmed hunger. It’s not that food is missing just because. It’s that they prevent us from buying it. Ships carrying food are hunted. Bank transactions are blocked. The companies that sell us grain, chicken, and milk are sanctioned.
Hunger in Cuba is not an accident. It is a State policy of the United States government, refined over 60 years, updated by every administration, intensified by Donald Trump, and executed with malice by Marco Rubio.
They call this “economic pressure.” I call it terrorism through hunger.
⚕️ I DENOUNCE ON BEHALF OF MY DOCTORS:
I denounce that our doctors—the same ones who saved lives during the pandemic while the whole world collapsed—today have no syringes, no anesthesia, no X-ray equipment. Not because we don’t know how to produce them. Not because we lack talent. But because the blockade prevents us from accessing supplies, spare parts, and technology.
Our scientists created five COVID-19 vaccines. Five. Without anyone’s help. Against all odds. Against the blockade and the lies. And even so, the empire punishes us for having achieved it.
🌍 TO THE WORLD, I SAY:
Cuba is not asking you for alms.
Cuba is not asking you for soldiers.
Cuba is not asking you to love us.
Cuba asks you for justice. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I ask you to stop normalizing the suffering of my people.
I ask you to call the blockade by its name: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
I ask you not to be fooled by the tale of “dialogue” and “democracy” while they tighten the noose around our necks.
We don’t want charity. We want them to LET US LIVE.
To the complicit governments that remain silent:
History will hold you accountable.
To the media that lies:
The truth always finds the cracks.
To the executioners who sign sanctions:
The Cuban people do not forget and do not forgive.
To those who still have humanity in their hearts:
Look at Cuba. Look at what they are doing to her. And ask yourself: Which side of history do I want to be on?
From this small island, with a giant people, An ordinary Cuban woman who refuses to surrender.
IF THIS TEXT MOVED SOMETHING INSIDE YOU, SHARE IT.
I don’t care if you have 10 friends or 10,000 followers.
I don’t care if your wall is public or private.
I don’t care if you never share anything.
But this is different.
This is not a photo of a sunset.
This is not celebrity news.
This is not just another opinion.
This is a SCREAM. And screams are not meant to be kept. They are HEARD. They are ECHOED. They BECOME A MULTITUDE.
Today I am not asking for a “like.”
I am asking you to use your thumbs for something bigger than scrolling.
SHARE.
So the world knows that in Cuba there is no crisis.
There is a CRIME.
So that mothers in other countries know that here there are babies fighting in incubators turned off by the blockade.
So that grandparents in other lands know that here there are elderly people dying while waiting for medicine that Washington won’t let in.
So that complicit governments feel shame.
So that lying media outlets have no escape.
So that the executioners know that WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.
A single person sharing this doesn’t change the world.
Thousands, millions, DO.
Don’t keep this text hidden.
Don’t be an accomplice to the silence.
MAKE THIS DENUNCIATION GO FURTHER THAN THE BLOCKADE.
SHARE. NOW.
#CubaDenouncesToTheWorld
#TheBlockadeKills
#ChildrenWithoutIncubators
#ElderlyWithoutMedicine
#IntentionalHunger
#CrimeAgainstHumanity
#CubaLives
#SHAREforCuba
#LetTheWorldHearUs
#DenunciationThatHurts
#CubaScreams
#TheBlockadeIsACrime
#ViralizeTheTruth
#HomelandOrDeath
#WeShallOvercome
Ikay Romay…
✊🇨🇺💔
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Opposition toward USAF Activity in Scotland
By SLP Leader Jim McDaid
Ayrshire SLP members supported and participated in the protest at Prestwick International Airport organised by Stop The War Scotland in conjunction with Ayrshire CND on Sunday, 22nd March 2026. The demonstration was called to express outright opposition to the use of the airport by logistical support aircraft of the USAF in the ongoing US/Israeli aggression against Iran.
Demonstrators chanted their outrage within the airport in advance of a letter of protest being handed over to airport management. The letter will also be submitted to John Swinney, First Minister calling on the Scottish government to intervene to stop the military use of the airport.
The letter points out that dozens of flights of large military conveyance aircraft have transitioned through Prestwick since the aggression was initiated on 28th February. Prestwick International Airport is owned by the Scottish government and the letter goes on to demand that:
1. Facilities are withdrawn from the US military to land, take off or refuel.
2. To transition the use of the airport to wholly civilian use.
These military aircraft are massive and loaded with all sorts of hardware including presumably with ammunition which in the event of an accident could lead to catastrophic death and destruction in and around the airport in neighbouring towns such as Prestwick and Troon.
The Socialist Labour Party will continue to support the struggle for peace in our world and for a socialist future which is the only guarantee of that. Those two objectives will be at the forefront of the SLP Scottish Parliament election campaign ahead.
Jim McDaid
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The War Against Iran
The UK government’s position on the US/Israel war with Iran, is duplicitous. It is on the one hand claiming that it is not being drawn into the war with Iran, while on the other hand it is giving logistical aid to the US by allowing the US to use UK bases. The UK is therefore complicit.
(RAF Fairford, which Starmer gave the US ‘permission’ to use, is a USAF Base. It is the operational centre of the 501st Combat Support Wing and the 420th Air Base Squadron, both are USAF. It supports the B1, Lancer Bomber, and the B52 Bomber, used to bomb Iran, this week.)
The US, Israel and some European leaders have openly admitted that this war is about regime change in Iran.
The UK government has claimed that it will only support ‘defensive’ military actions against Iran, not ‘aggressive’ actions, which is a nonsensical position because it is impossible to draw the distinction between ‘defensive’ and ‘aggressive’ operations because that would require a degree of control and situational awareness that the UK government is unlikely to possess. Also, now that UK has granted the US permission to use its territory, it is unlikely to be able to stop any aggressive military actions launched from the UK.
Iran’s UN Ambassador, Amir-Saeid Iravani, has said that 1,300+ civilians have already been killed. 9,669 civilian sites destroyed, 32 medical facilities, 65 schools and 13 Red Cross buildings. Fuel strikes are causing toxic rain over Tehran. Water plants bombed. This is hardly ‘defensive’ military action.
The mainstream media often omit to mention that Iran has a right to retaliate under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
The UK’s own military actions are carried out as ‘defensive’, the justification given is that they are protecting British citizens in the Middle East, which are more than likely British military personnel. The important point is that Iran did not attack British installations until Starmer had agreed to allow the US to use its bases in the UK.
This war is not only causing the death of innocent people in Iran, but closer to home, working class people are/will suffer the effects, disproportionately, through rising fuel costs, and a shrinking global economy. The only beneficiaries will be the industrial military complex.
Allistair Lomax,General Secretary, SLP
