CPGB News > Reports
‘No mistake to stand’
06 Mar 1997
Wirral South SLP candidate Mick Cullen gave the Weekly Worker his views on the campaign
SLP branch reports
27 Feb 1997
Scargill skirts the issues
27 Feb 1997
Socialist Labour Party
Contesting Brent East
27 Feb 1997
Stan Keable replies to Arthur Scargill’s claim in the Morning Star that he is not an SLP member
Scargill voids again
27 Feb 1997
As reported in last week’s Weekly Worker, Barry Biddulph, an SLP member in South London, has been ‘voided’ by Arthur Scargill. Below we reprint Scargill’s letter and Barry’s response
Thumping people
27 Feb 1997
Party notes
Not compatible with democracy
13 Feb 1997
At a branch meeting of Stockport Socialist Labour Party on November 28 1996 followers of the Economic and Philosophical Science Review, led by its founder-editor Roy Bull, passed a ‘motion’ calling for the expulsion of comrade John Pearson, the branch secretary. They alleged he was a member of the CPGB. John Pearson has since been excluded from a branch meeting recently chaired by Phil Griffin, backed by his homophobic and sectarian allies in the EPSR. We publish below the exchange between John Pearson and Arthur Scargill
Colombian general strike
13 Feb 1997
Picket against Fujimori
13 Feb 1997
Strike throws Ecuador government into crisis
13 Feb 1997
Juan Ponce of Poder Obrero calls for workers’ independence in Ecuador
Unity call
13 Feb 1997
Throwing the book at library workers
13 Feb 1997
Police pay out £5,000
13 Feb 1997
Second protester in Gravesend, North Kent, against racism and fascism is to get hundreds of pounds from Kent police
Why change?
13 Feb 1997
Party notes
Mounting the challenge to New Labour
13 Feb 1997
Mick Cullen, one of the sacked Merseyside dockers, is standing for the Socialist Labour Party in the Wirral South by-election on February 27. Peter Manson asked him about the SLP’s prospects