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Socialist Labour Party report on the General Election7 June 2001,by Arthur Scargill, SLP General Secretary[This is a summarised version of the original report]The General Election of 7 June 2001 took place after four years of a New Labour Government. It was held against a background of reductions in public services expenditure and in the knowledge … [Read more…]

Background and Conclusions for Socialists“center”>On Saturday 26 May, the racial tension that has been steadily growing in Oldham erupted into street battles the like of which have not been seen since the early 80s at Brixton, Toxteth and Broadwater Farm. The build-up to the fighting saw an increase in racially motivated attacks in Oldham’s most … [Read more…]

According to Chinese legend there was a man dying of thirst. The only drink he had to hand was a goblet filled with poison. He was bound to die if he drank it, and equally bound to die if he did not. Israeli Zionism finds itself in the same predicament. It loses if it does … [Read more…]

We are very pleased to reproduce this important and though-provoking article sent to us by Teddy-John Frank, International Secretary of the KPML(r). Comrade Frank rightly points out that rioting for the sake of rioting is not an appropriate tactic for the revolutionary working class. Much of the anti-capitalist rioting that has been seen lately is … [Read more…]

Following the general election held on 7 June, the Labour Party has been returned to office with a big majority of 167 seats – only slightly smaller than last time. The Conservatives won 167 seats, while the Liberal Democrats increased their representation in parliament from 41 to 52. Labour secured 413 seats (6 fewer than … [Read more…]

Step by step, the imperialists appear to be very close to realising their goal of breaking up the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and dominating, militarily and economically, its constituent parts. As Nato’s criminal war, with its 78 days of ceaseless bombardment and 36,000 sorties, had not been able to dislodge the Milosevic regime, which … [Read more…]

On 1 April 2001, the US EP-3 spyplane, crippled after colliding with a Chinese fighter plane over the South China Sea, off the southern Chinese island of Hainan, flew 104 km to the Lingshui military airfield on Hainan island. Within minutes of landing, while the US crew were frantically trying to scramble their craft’s top … [Read more…]

In the General ElectionVote Socialist Labour Partyleader Arthur Scargill Lalkar calls upon all working people to vote for the Socialist Labour Party in the forthcoming General Election. It is the only party with a socialist programme and a socialist manifesto – the only party that stands for getting rid of capitalism – the cause of all … [Read more…]

The bourgeois press has, for the past couple of weeks, been eagerly reporting the various controversies that have arisen regarding the anti-racism pledge drawn up by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), which calls on politicians not to use the issue of race during the general election.Firstly we must state that the pledge in itself … [Read more…]

After the above article was written [i.e., the article on the Spyplane incident], news came through that the Bush administration, although for the time being failing to agree the sale of Arleigh-Burke class destroyers with a sophisticated Aegis radar system – the most sensitive weapons system requested by Taiwan – decided to sell to the … [Read more…]