Socialist Labour Party GB

14/09/2026

🚨”The death of a British national, Bradley Townsend, killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russian forces has been widely reported in the media.

“British traitor who joined Vladimir Putin’s army ‘killed by Ukraine drone'” splashed the Daily Star while former security minister Tom Tugendhat told LBC that Townsend was “extremely misguided” for “engaging in an army that is committing the most barbarous war crimes that the world has seen in decades.”

Compare this to the far more positive coverage in the media of individual British nationals who have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during a genocide that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians.”

That’s the unwritten rule for Britain’s media

14/09/2026

🚨Tony Blair😈the war criminal who sits the Board of Peace that presides over Gaza, where Israel’s disregard for Palestinian lives and the rules of war has been demonstrated on a genocidal scale, while the UK’s newly seated leadership refer to Israel’s actions as “a stain on the conscience of the world”. 👇

“These decades-old condemnations are contained in UK Foreign Office files written during the administration of former Prime Minister Tony Blair while Israel undertook a brutal 2002 offensive in the occupied West Bank”

UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.

14/09/2026

🚨The wealthy donating vast amounts of money to UK political parties are not on the side of the working class.

13/09/2026

13/09/2026

“In fighting for our members' pay, terms and conditions, our Union has had success with two major legal actions over the past year.

The first was in establishing unfair dismissal by an agency which had effectively taken over the Barnsley Road Transport Department in Yorkshire from British Coal. The Industrial Tribunal ruled completely in the Union's favour - and as a result we are now pursuing cases for compensation damages on behalf of 40 other members in the County Courts.

Every such victory is important not only for our members but for the trade union Movement as a whole. Job losses and victimisation have swept through every industry and craft over the past decade.

Each success is part of rebuilding confidence in ourselves and the justice of our struggle.

The second win we had was in the long, long battle to achieve recognition of equal value for women colliery canteen workers.

In May, the House of Lords ruled that nearly 1,300 women who are NUM members have the right to have their pay compared with male surface workers employed at collieries in occupations such as baths attendants, laundry workers and maintenance staff.

The NUM first raised issue of equal pay in 1977, nearly 20 years ago, and the present litigation has gone on for over a decade.

The case has been through the Industrial Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Now, at last, the House of Lords has dismissed British Coal's arguments against the principle of work of equal value on the grounds that it has a discriminatory effect and is against a European Court decision.

If British Coal refuses to sit own with the Union and negotiate an agreement on all the matters involved, then the Law Lords have ruled that the cases must be evaluated and determined by a Tribunal-appointed independent expert.

The Law Lords also ruled that British Coal must pay all the Union's costs in this long-running battle over the equal pay for work of equal value.

We have, of course, had to fight on many fronts.

Alongside wages, job protection and proper trade union recognition, are the inter-twined issues of safety and health. On this vital front, too, we must continue building ourselves as a campaigning force”.
Arthur Scargill July, 1996.

13/09/2026

🚨British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June

🚨3.2 UK households are in fuel poverty.

🚨 Two‑thirds of pensioners would rather turn off their heating than fall into debt.

13/09/2026

🚨Socialist Labour Party Comrades flew the flag yesterday at the Diggers Festival in Wigan.

We had some good opportunities to talk to people, hand out leaflets, sell manifestos and were a very visible and colourful presence.

We intend to be back there, in '27.

12/09/2026

Interview with Arthur (AS) and anphoblacht’s Joanne Corcoran (JC) February 2005.

“The media labelled you as the Devil incarnate during the strike. What effect did that have on you?” (JC)

“Well, if I hadn't been called the Devil Incarnate, I would have been sorry, because it would have meant I wasn't doing my job. The media did make me a hate figure, but I managed it by believing that that was part of my job.

The establishment can make hate figures as easy as ABC. For example, it's interesting how they characterise a whole range of people today as terrorists, in many cases simply because they are Arab, or following the Islamic faith. And yet when Mark Thatcher plans to assassinate the President of an African state and take over its government, the media cover it in a way that sees it out of the headlines in a week. Yet, by the government's definition, he is a terrorist.

Go further back and you see that when America demanded independence from Britain, their leaders were being called terrorists in the British press of the time. The media will always take the establishment's line on these matters. Things did get very bad though. There were actually five assassination attempts on me during the strike and shortly after. The media didn't report that.” (AS)

12/09/2026

🚨 Comrade Denis Doody

“We now learn Netanyahu knew in advance of the plans of Hamas, he deliberately kept it from his military. We now know that Hamas offered to release the hostages almost immediately after their capture. Remember the call “release the hostages and the bombing stops” all lies, the hostages were no more than disposable pawns in a land grab.

Today there’s outrage and a uproar about sanctions that are barely worthy of the name sanctions. The nudge nudge, wink wink variety designed for public consumption whilst being practically ineffective on the ground threatening no one. Meanwhile homes are still being demolished, land is still being stolen, people are still being murdered on a day and daily basis whilst the Labour government still continues to arm and do commerce with a genocidal state who continues to land grab, displace, and ethnically cleanse the indigenous people of Palestine.

Fooling the fools!”

12/09/2026

The full state pension is less than 50% of the minimum wage.