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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…]

In 1999, at the height of Nato’s criminal war against Yugoslavia, a war which was waged in complete violation of international law and the customs of war, and during which NATO committed horrendous crimes – crimes which can aptly be described as crimes against humanity – NATO, turning facts on their head, got its kangaroo … [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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Many in the Marxist-Leninist movement will be aware of the sudden death of Bill Bland, after a short illness in the London Hospital, on March 13th. He had a long history of anti-revisionist activity through various organisations, in particular as Secretary of the Albania Society for 30 years, and more recently as one of the … [Read more…]

An appeal by the Daewoo Motors Labour UnionSince the mass sacking of 1750 workers at Daewoo Motors’ Bupyoung plant on February 16, there has been a protracted and bitter fight for their reinstatement.On February 19, police attacked the workers and their families who were occupying the plant in a desperate bid to hold onto their … [Read more…]

Education is a question of classKnowledge is power. From the very inception of humanity individuals and groups with superior knowledge and understanding of the processes of nature prospered at the expense of those with less. With the split of society into classes, the most advanced education of the time tended to become the preserve of … [Read more…]

Over the last two months, since mid-February 2001, Britain’s livestock has been ravaged by an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD). The disease itself – surprisingly in view of the hysteria with which its spread has been greeted – is fatal to neither man nor beast. It affects animals like a bad dose of … [Read more…]