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Arthur Scargill, Leader of the Socialist Labour Party, speaking at the Hay-on-Wye Festival on Saturday 24 May 2008, called for world-wide sanctions against Israel and an international boycott of all Israeli goods.

He urged people everywhere to boycott Israeli goods in the same way as they boycotted South African goods during the years of apartheid.

He reminded his audience that Israel was an artificially created state and that only 20% of its Jewish population was born in that region, the same percentage as Arab population born in that region.

He said the daily slaughter by the fascist state of Israel against the people of Palestine should be condemned throughout the world.

He said Arab states should practise what they preach and called on all Arab states to cut off contact with Israel and, as a first step, cease supplying Israel with oil and gas, an action which would have real impact and help to force Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territory it has occupied unlawfully and in violation of United Nations’ resolutions since 1967.

VICTORY IN GMB ELECTION

The Socialist Labour Party sends its warmest congratulations to SLP member Ron Waugh on being re-elected to the position of President of the GMB (Manufacturing Section) at last week’s GMB Conference in Plymouth, despite strong opposition from the union’s right-wing. Ron will now serve a four year term as President.

On Tuesday 10^th June the Conference was addressed by invited speaker Arthur Scargill who spoke on the acute economic and political issues facing trade unionists in this present period. Scargill’s forty-five minute contribution was followed by a ten-minute standing ovation from the assembled GMB delegates.

Ron Waugh commented, “I see my election success as a victory for the SLP and its policies. I thought Arthur’s Congress contribution was magnificent and it was an honour to have him here.”

Through leading by example the SLP is confident that similar success throughout the trade union movement can be achieved in the near future.

15^th June 2008.

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Arthur Scargill, Leader of the Socialist Labour Party - whose great-grandparents were Irish - speaking at the Hay-on-Wye Festival on Saturday, said it would be an act of unparalleled betrayal if Ireland, having fought for centuries to win independence, were now to hand over that independence to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

He said support for the Treaty of Lisbon would represent a betrayal of those who fought and those who died for Irish independence including the martyrs of 1916 and would also be a monumental betrayal of future generations in Ireland.

He called on all Irish people in the referendum on 12 June to record a massive “No” vote and retain Ireland’s independence.

SCARGILL SPEAKS IN YORK about the current economic crisis in this country.

On the 15^th May, Party Leader, Arthur Scargill delivered a hard-hitting,

and warmly applauded, speech at a public meeting organized by the Socialist Labour Party in York. This meeting is one of several nationwide venues at which Scargill will be speaking during the coming months.

At St. Olave’s Hall, Marygate Lane, he told a crowded room that the

economic problems we are now facing are far from over and things will worsen. He commented on rising prices of food and utilities, and at the crass way in which huge areas of agricultural land was being switched from food crops to those used in the production of biofuels. “Allowing this to happen while millions are starving in Africa and other parts of the world, is criminal,” he said.

Scargill was supported on the platform by Linda Sheridan, secretary of

York branch SLP, who, in a vigorous speech, voiced her anger

at the way in which the people of this country are being served by

the government. “They are treating us with absolute contempt,” she said.

“If we are ever to have a fair and equal society, then we must ditch the

negative, threadbare political thinking of the past and elect a genuinely socialist government to effect the necessary change, The only Party offering voters a workable socialist manifesto is the Socialist Labour Party.”

A further public meeting, (speakers to be announced), will be held at the same venue, St Olave’s Hall, Marygate Lane, Marygate, York, at 7.30.p.m. on the 17^th July. Everyone welcome. For information please e-mail: venices@ukonline.co.uk