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Ukraine being bombed by Russia 2023. No explosion, Beirut 2020. Old, unrelated pictures are routinely used to back up false claims. The BBC exposes fake reporting while daily broadcasting propaganda instead of balanced accounts of conflict etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60513452 James Waterhouse the BBC Correspondent extracted an admission from the Ukrainian Soldier who was driving him to the front line. The driver said he knew the way because we ( Ukrainian Government) had been bombing this area For The Last 9 years. I welcomed this honest report by James Waterhouse because it demonstrated that NATO and the Western Alliance have been lying about the Conflict for at least the past 18 years including its biased reports since 2014 when fascist elements overththrew the democratically elected President in a Coup d’etat The admission by the Ukrainian Soldier exposed that the Conflict in Ukraine was deliberately started by NATO, the European Union, and the United States of America. Britain’s involvement is to be deplored and its deployment of billions of pounds weapons of war is reminiscent of its policy in the unlawful invasion of Iraq by the Blair Government in 2003. Its time to stop supporting either side and spend the billions on the National Health Service, Social Care, the Education System. all of which should be Nationalised, and use money helping the 12-5 million old age Pensioners. We call for an end to Britain’s involvement in the Ukraine and remember the cost of its involvement in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan in the loss of life and the years of attempted occupation which lasted for 20 years only to leave countries in a worse position than they were in before the UK,’s became involved. We should remember that the UK sill occupies part of Ireland and remember the cost of that occupation. We call for Peace not War. Arthur Scargill Socialist Labour Party. 14/06/2023

Tyrone O’ Sullivan, former chairman of Tower Colliery in Hirwaun, South Wales, led miners in buying their pit from British Coal. It was marked for closure in 1994/5. Many pits were marked for closure with one of the reasonis s they were uneconomic. According to Socialism Today it became “a profitable going concern….with the best wages and conditions in the mining industry”. This is a cogent argument for bringing our industries into public ownership, rejecting the lies and distortions of the large corporate bodies that habitually seize the wealth created by the workers and enrich themselves and others – not least politicians who prefer to act on their behalf rather than those who elect them to office. https://socialismtoday.org/archive/70/tower.html Tyrone’s funeral is on 19th June, 2023 in South Wales. The community remember Arthur Scargill, still held in great esteem and affection according to a member who spoke to me this week. Report on the death of Tyrone O’Sullivan, BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65732587 John Tyrrell, President SLP 12/6/2023

Amongst other anniversaries today, it 39 years since Arthur Scargill was arrested at Orgreave. The article here was written on the day he was later fined. https://philmaxwell.org/arthur-scargill/#:~:text=On%20this%20day%20in%201984%20Arthur%20Scargill%2C%20the,arrest%20outside%20Orgreave%20Coal%20Works%2C%20near%20Sheffield%2C%20Yorkshire. He has called for a probe into the arrest https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-25053844.amp On this day other anniversaries https://nationaldaycalendar.com/what-day-is-it/

On all TV Channels, on Radio and Newspapers we are told that Inflation for April was 10.1% Its a LIE ! My our advice to trade unions is say no to compromise. Demand the full Retail Price Index of 13.8 % in 2022 and settle for nothing less and than the Full Retail Price Index of 13.5% rate in April 2023. Don’t forget the words of James Connolly and Jim Larkin – STOP COMPROMISING AND START FIGHTING FOR ALL WORKERS IN ALL SERVICES… AND KEEP FIGHTING UNTIL YOU WIN. ARTHUR SCARGILL SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY 24/5/2023

Windscale in Cumbria suffered serious damage in a fire in 1977. The incident was hushed up although many suffered from the outcome with cancer resulting in death of many. A Wikipedia article states: “the Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident” in the U.K. It has been estimated there have been 100 to 240 cancer facilities in the long term, with people still suffering it’s effects now in 2023. It is etsimated it will take 100 years to clear up “the mess” at a cost of £260 billion. A number of eminent people gave evidence at the Windscale Public Inquiry, 1977 who had become convinced of the dangers of pursuing a nuclear future and re-opening Windscale. They included Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers (Yorkshire Area) and Chairman of Energy 2000, Sir Kelvin Spencer, Ministry of Power Chief Scientist (1954-1959), Colin Sweet, expert in the economics of nuclear power, Lesley Grainger, National Coal Board Member, Gordon Thompson, expert on the potential fallout from nuclear accidents and Sister Rosalie Bertell, expert on leukaemia caused by nuclear radiation. All gave evidence against nuclear power. Concerned scientists have given an acoount of accidents which have occurred in nuclear power plans globally: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/brief-history-nuclear-accidents-worldwide

We must draw on existing resources as part of an integrated enrgy policy, not flirt with nuclear, the most dangerous option. Has George Monbiot sold out on his environmental credentials or is he suffering from amnesia? In his article on these pages last Tuesday he states that he has now reached the point where he no longer cares whether or not the answer to climate change is nuclear – let it happen, he says. Has he not read the evidence presented by environmentalists such as Tony Benn and me at the Windscale, Sizewell and Hinckley Point public inquiries? Is he unaware that nuclear-power generated electricity is the most expensive form of energy – 400% more expensive than coal – or that it received £6bn in subsidies, with £70bn to be paid by taxpayers in decommissioning costs? Is he unaware that there is no known way of disposing of nuclear waste, which will contaminate the planet for thousands of years? Has he forgotten the nuclear disasters at Windscale, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl? We are facing an economic and political crisis on a scale similar to the Wall Street crash in 1929, the mass unemployment which affected the UK and Europe in the 1930s and the energy crisis in the early 70s. We are facing a monumental energy crisis, yet we live on an island with more than 1,000 years of coal reserves from which we can provide all the electricity, oil, gas and petrochemicals that people need, without causing harm to the environment. Britain – despite its massive indigenous deep-mine coal reserves – has never had an integrated energy policy based on coal and renewables, and as a consequence we are now facing the worst energy crisis in our history. Since the end of the second world war, both Labour and Tory governments have sought to replace Britain’s vast coal reserves with a false promise of “cheap” imported oil, “cheap, safe” nuclear energy and “cheap” natural gas – policies that have not only cost the British people billions of pounds, but resulted in the near-extinction of Britain’s deep-mine coal industry, the virtual exhaustion of North Sea gas and oil, and massive economic costs and environmental problems associated with nuclear power. After the closure of 192 pits since 1980, the loss of 170,000 jobs and the closure or non-operation of nearly 70% of coal-fired power stations on the false premise that they were uneconomic and the worst polluter of carbon dioxide, it is reasonable to expect that there would have been a dramatic fall in CO2 emissions. But in fact CO2 emissions have actually increased – not that surprising, since more than 80% of CO2 emissions are produced by oil and gas from power stations, road transport, industry, shipping and domestic use. That fact alone should cause Monbiot to rethink. Britain needs an integrated energy policy that will produce 250m tonnes of indigenous deep-mine clean coal per year – from which could be extracted all the electricity, oil, gas and petrochemicals that our people need. All existing and new coal-fired power stations should be fitted with clean coal technology – including carbon capture that would remove all CO2 – and at the same time we should be developing a massive renewable energy policy based on wind, wave, tide, barrage, hydro, geothermal, solar power, together with insulation, conservation and reforestation. We must end the import of coal, (currently 43m tonnes a year) which is produced by subsidies, “slave labour” and child labour, and end the import of shale oil, tar sands and other so-called unconventional oils, which are the dirtiest fuels on the planet but are being used to produce electricity. We still do not know – because of the security and secrecy laws – the full extent of the disaster at Windscale (Sellafield) in 1957 or Three Mile Island in the US in 1979, but we do know that the incidence of cancer and leukaemia – particularly among children – is 10% higher in or around nuclear power stations, and we know from experts such as Robert Gale – who treated the victims at Chernobyl in 1986 – that more than 100,000 will die over a 30-year period. We need an end to all nuclear-powered electricity generation, the most dangerous and uneconomic method of producing electricity. We need an end to deforestation, which is the cause of 20% of CO2 emissions worldwide, and an end to biofuel development – which not only produces substantial CO2 emissions but is causing mass starvation and higher food prices throughout the world. Only by the introduction of a real integrated energy policy based on clean coal technology and renewable energies, can we begin to meet the needs of people in the UK and throughout the world. I challenge George Monbiot to test out which is the most dangerous fuel – coal or nuclear power. I am prepared to go into a room full of CO2 for two minutes, if he is prepared to go into a room full of radiation for two minutes. Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party. President of the National Union of Mineworkers 1982-2002 num.rimmington@wwmail.co.uk

Every night on TV and every day people in the United Kingdom and worldwide are subject to film and print to people are dying as a result of drought and the lack of water, the ownership which is in the hands of this natural resource of privatised companies. who charge exorbitant prices and urge people to use less water which has seen their bills increase by 50%. We have all the water not just in the West but enough water to provide people all over the world by using sea water which is rising at an enormous rate by developing Desalination Plants which turns sea water into clean water; indeed if we use Desalination Plants we can see the desserts bloom and the sea waters lower thus stop the erosion of our countries and the reduce the flooding which is effective countries worldwide This innovation can only be achieved by water being taken out of the hands of privatised companies and publicly owned. This policy could start in the UK by using the £3 billion profits and these companies recorded in 2022. Arthur Scargill Socialist Labour Party 27/3/2023

The effect of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse will have far reaching effects, including in the U.K. where start-up companies have received support. Photo credit: The Sun. Arthur Scargill, John Tyrrell, Socialist Labour Party 12/3/2023

The Socialist Labour Party warned about this https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-how-it-happened.html Arthur Scargill, John Tyrrell, Socialist Labour Party 12/3/2023