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PALESTINE- V- ISRAEL. The fight by the Palestinian people against the State of Israel which has occupied large areas of Palestine and evicted Palestinians from their homes should be supported. We see the hypocrisy of the United States in condemning the Palestinians who are fighting back against Israel’s vicious assaults on citizens of both Gaza and the West Bank, including the killing last year of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot dead while covering an Israeli raid on Jenin Refugee Camp. For 56 years the Apartheid State of Israel has unlawfully occupied land which belongs to the people of Palestine The United States and the United Kingdom condemn Russia for what they call occupation of Ukraine, whose regime with the support of NATO overthrew an elected President in a coup d’ etat in 2014. Israel has violated 28 resolutions of the United Nations, and violated the Hague Regulations IV, Article 43 ( 1907) by creating duel legal systems in the occupied territories. The Socialist Labour Party demands that Israel should withdraw from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights – and all Palestinian lands it has occupied since 1967. Arthur Scargill Socialist Labour Party 7 October 2023

Rob J. Hawkins SLP Southwest Region

Above. Supporters from Indian Workers’ Association, IWA and Socialist Labour Party, SLP West Midlands Region, in support of action to save Birmingham’s heritage for future generations. This evening, 25th September, a meeting of BIrmingham Council was being held to discuss the way ahead following a declaration that it was not able to balance its books as a result of equal pay claims for women dating back years. It was announced that Michael Gove would be sending in a team to run the Council. Decisions had to be made. Unite, Unison and GMB were prominent among those anxious to save their members’ jobs. The NEU took a lead by preparing a leaflet and promoting the event. It is timely to remind BIrmingham citizens, Unions, City Councillors and others of the great victory the people of BIrmingham had in 1972 at the Batlle of Saltley Gate. 20,000 union members downed tools and marched to Saltley Gate where miners and other supporting unions picketing, heavily out numbered by police sent in from across the U.K. A then unknown miner, Arthur Scargill, took charge stopping the marchers in front of the gates. The Chief of Police had just assured the Home Secretary he had everything under control until this happened. He was forced to close the gate to stop coke stocks going in or out. Scargill held a victory rally, the subject of a mural held at South and City College at Digbeth depicting the scene with him standing on top of the urinals to address the crowd. A consequence was the downfall of the Heath Government in 1974. People power works and can do so again now. We must take courage and refuse to allow BIrmingham to be sold. Birmingham Post and Mail. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/five-key-issues-behind-birmingham-27681215 John Tyrrell, SLP President 25/9/2023

From Clubland https://www.petebrown.net/2023/04/25/harry-belafontes-near-miss-with-barnsley-clubland/ Socialist Labour Party 23/9/2023

I am appalled at the Britain is continuing to support the United States and the European Union and all the countries who are supporting Ukraine in the crisis in that Country by providing billions on armaments when it is obvious that this crisis was planned by NATO and the United States following the Coup d’etat in 2014 which led to the overthrow of the elected President. All these countries who have and are conducting a media campaign not seen since the unlawful war against Iraq in 2003 which resulted in over a million deaths including hundreds of British citizens. The argument by all those say that they support Ukraine on the grounds that Russia have occupied areas of Ukraine stay silent about the Neo-Fascist State of Israel who on a daily basis bomb and shell the Palestinian people and evict them from their homes as part of its determination to occupy the whole Palestine. The United States occupy part of Cuba and use it for the detention people for years without a charge or an opportunity to challenge their unlawful detention. The billions of pounds supplying armaments, money which should be spent on our National Health Service, Education System, Care for the elderly and disabled, monies which could and should help the 14.4 million people who are existing below the poverty line. On behalf of the Socialist Labour Party I call for an end to Britain sending weapons of war and an end NATO . I was appalled to see the TUC support this deplorable policy. It’s reminiscent of the TUC policy in its support for Lech Walesa and Solidarity. Walesa supported Margaret Thatcher and opposed the National Union of Mineworkers who were on strike. Look at the situation today in the free market. I call on the Trade Unions to stop accusing Russia for the conflict in Ukraine when on any test the Conflict was started by NATO and the United States. Arthur Scargill Socialist Labour Party 22/9/2023

Socialist Labour Party member, David Jacobsen from Edinburgh, has called attention to weekly meetings in London in defence of Julian Assange. He calls on SLP members and supporters to act in solidarity in any way possible, including attending the protest rallies. Socialist Labour Party 21/9/2023

The Socialist Labour notes that the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio da Silva, “Lula” has spoken out over the continuing blockade by the United States of Cuba which has lasted for 60 years. The accusation that Cuba as a state sponsors terrorism is not universally held. Many in fact recognise that despite the vindictive and viscious attack on Cuba’s fragile economy the country was exemplary in its spread of humane actions both at home, in neighbouring countries in the Caribbean, Southern America, many African countries or wherever there was desperate need Cuba responded. The Peoples’ Forum stated “Cuba is a sponsor of healthcare, education, assistance and solidarity – NOT terrorism! For decades and recently during #covid, Cuba exported and trained doctors to the benefit of countries in need of them. The US, world’s biggest exporter of war and weapons, has no place to judge Cuba!” Bolivian and Argentian leaders echoed Lulas’ sentiments in their addresses to the U.N. Assembly. Socialist Labour Party 21/9/2023

The International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign (IUAFS) organised a demonstration in London on 16th September, 2023. REPORT It was a very important demonstration. Highlighting western imperialism. USA and European Union aggression towards Russia and China. They are not prepared to accept a multi polar equal world with Russia and China. We are in a critical stage in history as the Brics countries has 31% of world trade and the western G7 bloc only 30%. So whatever the EU and the USA say a new multi polar world is being formed. The USA is responsible for the conflict in the Ukraine they were behind the fascist coup against the democratically elected president in 2014. As a member of the Socialist Labour Party, I am pleased that the party leader Arthur Scargill has played an excellent role in explaining the role of Nato in starting the conflict in the Ukraine. By moving troops up to the Russian border thus going against a previous decision not to expand nato up to the Russian border. The mood on the demonstration was positive. Members of the public asked questions about the campaign. Kevin O’Connor London region SLP. 16/9/2023 Background Protest: Warmonger Britain – Stop Arming Zelensky, Get Out of Ukraine! No more British arming and training Ukrainian fascist Banderites! Protest in London, opposite Downing Street, Whitehall, Saturday 16 September 2pm Ukrainian president Vlodymyr Zelensky meeting leading Ukrainian fascist, Andriy Biletsky, 14 August 2023 In the past 20 years Britain has joined wars, regime changes and covert interventions which have brought death, destruction and chaos around the world, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Belarus. Today the British ruling class is virtually at war with Russia in Ukraine, while desperately trying to organise subversion in Russia and Belarus. Britain has worked with reactionary Islamic terrorists around the world, and with resurgent fascists in Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States to further its imperialist aims. British weapons are being used by the openly Nazi Azov regiment, (See: Ukraine Neo-Nazis pictured with UK-made rocket launchers, Declassified UK, 10 March 2022), while on the eve of Ukraine’s major offensive against the Donbas republics on 17 February 2022 the UK military were training Ukraine’s National Guard, which includes a thousand-strong neo-Nazi unit, (See: UK Commanders in Ukraine met Neo-Nazi linked National Guard to ‘Deepen military cooperation’, Declassified UK, 15 February 2022). Boris Johnson himself led the way to sabotage the Istanbul peace agreement in April 2022, which we now know was very close to completion. Now Britain is coming under attack even in Kiev for sabotaging the talks, considering the enormous losses Ukrainians have suffered for effectively fighting on NATO’s behalf. According to Tony Brenton, former UK ambassador to Moscow, Britain is the most aggressive of all the NATO members in Ukraine. He told BBC Radio 4 in May: “We have more special forces in Ukraine than any other NATO country. We are seen as an absolute hawk up there with the Poles and the Baltic states.” Vlodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish heritage has not prevented him from allying with the fascist, Banderite gangs in Ukraine. On 14 August he posted a video on his Telegram channel showing him meeting Ukraine’s top neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky, founder of the Azov Battalion and the Hitler-worshipping Right Sector. (“Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi”, The Grayzone, 16 August 2023). Biletsky famously declared in 2010 that the Ukrainian nation’s mission was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans]”. Now he claims not to be a fascist, and that this quote was fabricated – conveniently for Kiev’s NATO backers! Video report of demonstration London 16/9/2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4oVRlCk7I

Members of the Socialist Labour Party are activists in Trades Councils across the Britain including Scotland, Yorkshire, Midlands and Cornwall. Christopher Butler is involved with Bradford and Shipley Trades’ Council and is drawing attention to a resolution proposed by the POA Union to give greater recognistion to Trades’ Councils drawing attention to their significant contribution to communities in Britain. Across the years they have shown the importance of Socialism in action. As the article says “their time has come”!