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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.

Our General Secretary, Chris Butler, comments on Unite the Union’s reluctance to call out Keir Starmer for cutting benefits while pledging to increase defence spending.

“I notice that Unite does not comment on the reason why Starmer wants to make savings in the cost of benefits.

It is so he can increase defence spending to 5% of [UK] GDP. Unite does not comment because they have workers in the Arms Industry building weapons to kill innocent women and children in Gaza, including parts for the F35 fighter planes used to blitz Gaza.

Unite also has members building Small Modular Reactors producing nuclear power.

I don’t think Unite supports Welfare not Warfare.”

Chris Butler 30-6-2025

(It is worth noting that the UK currently spends 2.3% of its GDP on defence, which in 2024 was around £64 billion. The proposal by Starmer to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP will mean by 2035, the UK will be spending £140 billion every year on defence.)

I fully support RMT’s Statement which calls for an end to the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

I estimate that the UK have expended £25 billion in support of Ukraine who came to “power as a result of a coup d’etat” .

The people, organisations who staged the overthrow of elected government are the same elements as those in the West of Ukraine who fought with the Nazis in the second world war

Yours in Comradeship

Arthur Scargill

President  NUM. 1982- 2001

President I.E.M.O 1996 -to date

30th of June, 2025

(The original message to the RMT via email was censored as “inappropriate”.)