Socialist Labour Party GB

13/06/2026

Glasgow, Belfast, Walton and Brighton standing up to racism ✊

13/06/2026

“When Hugh Gaitskell failed in the 1960s to remove Clause Four from the Party Constitution, the vast majority of members believed that never again would such an attempt be made. Today, many find the arguments for "share ownership, acceptance of the "mixed economy" and a "market approach" reprehensible. Those in the leadership of our Party who seek these policy changes are just as guilty as Gaitskell was in trying to wipe out Clause Four and introduce an openly social-democrat type of party which would accept rather than change the capitalist society.

I regard these aspects of the current policy review as classic examples of the influence of "New Realism", an influence confirmed by the Labour Party Leader when he said on 11th June that the only way to defeat Mrs Thatcher’s’Government Of Greed' was to embrace New Realism.

But if our movement were to follow that advice it would be embracing a malignancy which will both bring electoral defeat and split the movement from top to bottom at a
time when it should be uniting. It is time the Labour leadership stopped moulding policy to suit the flavour of the day and the result of the latest opinion poll. it is time for a return to the socialist principles upon which our movement was founded.

The battle cry of Keir Hardie in calling for the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange is as relevant today as it was when it was first made. It is time for our movement to stop looking inward, and to start fighting the common enemy.”
Arthur Scargill, June 1988.

13/06/2026

🚨The Socialist Labour Party’s, fully costed, policy on Pensions:

🔴The SLP supports the introduction of a state pension based on equivalence with the national living wage. We also support the right to retirement at a younger age rather than the ever increasing older ages proposed by governments in Britain both Tory and Labour. We support the retention of the ‘Triple Lock’ but insist that it should be based on keeping pace with the Retail Price Index (RPI) rather than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as proposed by the main parties - the CPI rate is consistently lower than RPI.

🔴In Britain there are around 12.4 million people of pensionable age, many growing old in poverty, unable to buy sufficient food or heat for their homes: in many cases, pensioners are having to choose whether to eat or to heat and many must go to food banks to exist. Pensioners are worse off in real terms than they were in 1978. To add insult to injury, the Government, and local authorities 'steal' the savings, assets and homes of pensioners who have to go into a care home. These pensioners have paid for their health and welfare care by paying tax throughout their lives.

🔴The proportion of employees in a public sector occupational pension scheme was 91% compared with 75% in the workplace pension scheme in the private sector.

🔴UK state pensions account for £112.5 billion, but private UK pension schemes now hold assets valued at a massive £3 trillion – more than enough to help pay for every pledge outlined in this Manifesto. The SLP wants a national state pension for all, payable at the age of 65; a national state pension equal to the national average wage with a guarantee that future pension increases are in line with any increase in the national average wage.

🔴Our Party is opposed to the Tory workplace pension scheme which is, basically, based on a money purchase arrangement and in effect on stocks and shares, profit and loss – as opposed to pension entitlement for every person who has earned the right to a standard of living after retirement which recognises the contribution they have made throughout their life.

🔴The WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) issue arising from the 1995 Pensions Act which led to women born in the 1950’s being financially disadvantaged through inadequate notice and advance notice of pension age qualifications is an open wound requiring address. The SLP supports full financial reparation to all women affected by this iniquitous act.

🔴The Socialist Labour Party condemns the pension changes as a cynical attempt by the Government to reduce its obligation to pay decent pensions. Our Party rejects all the recommendations and proposals which have already been thoroughly discredited.

🔴Our Party’s commitment is to a pension equal to the national average wage. This would give all pensioners an annual pension of £41,600. The additional cost of the pension arrangements proposed by the Socialist Labour Party can easily be met out of the £3 trillion currently invested in private pension schemes.

13/06/2026

🚨Burnham who previously backed compensating as many as 3.6 million WASPI women, has now changed his mind.

Don’t these career politicians make you sick 🤢.

Labour leadership hopeful says he does not support payments after backlash but is open to other benefits

13/06/2026

🚨Andy Burnham says he is "not squeamish" about cutting welfare spending.

He’s a warmonger and no different from Starmer.

13/06/2026

Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case.

“It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life.

The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them.”

This paper outlines Amnesty International’s opposition to the misuse of counter-terrorism laws to prosecute protest movements, including actions by Palestine Action.

13/06/2026

Remember when you hear MPs speaking against the triple lock, which gave our Pensioners 4.8% this year, they voted themselves a 5% pay increase!

13/06/2026

🚨The Multi-millionaire Iceland boss, another Lord, Richard Walker, wants to axe the pension triple lock. Walker was appointed by Starmer as the ‘Cost-of-living Tzar’. A very rich man telling the rest of us what’s right for us.

🔴The full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.

🔴Millions working can’t afford to save for private pensions.

🔴2m pensioners are living in poverty.

We MUST protect the Triple Lock on pensions.

13/06/2026

🔴”Kemi Badenoch and her Conservative party are being investigated by the statistics watchdog for repeatedly making misleading statements about social security spending, while they are also facing a possible examination into a second set of false claims.”

Kemi Badenoch and her Conservative party are being investigated by the statistics watchdog for repeatedly making misleading statements about social security spending, while they are also facing a p…

13/06/2026

🚨It’s true about the Biolabs.

🔴Outgoing USA DNI Chief Tulsi Gabbard declassified intelligence showing the US funded 120 plus Biolabs across more than 30 countries, including 40 in Ukraine.

🔴They handled pathogens like anthrax, Ebola, and plague.

U.S. government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries was unveiled by outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who said many include pathogens that cause infectious diseases.