Socialist Labour Party (UK)
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Socialist Labour Party
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| Leader | Arthur Scargill |
| President | John Tyrrell |
| Vice-President | James McDaid |
| General Secretary | Kim Bryan |
| Treasurer | Ken Capstick |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Split from | Labour Party |
| Headquarters | PO Box 193, Liverpool. L38 0WX. |
| Ideology | Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Red |
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| http://www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk/ | |
The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party was established in 1996 and is led by Arthur Scargill, a former Labour Party member and the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. The party's name highlights its commitment to socialism and acknowledges Clause IV of the Labour Party's former constitution, as fundamental to the party's identity.
The SLP advocates economic localism and is in favour of reopening the mines.
In February 2014, The Guardian newspaper reported that the SLP had only 300 members, which it attributed to the ageing Scargill's withdrawal from public life. According to accounts filed for the year of 2014 with the Electoral Commission, the Socialist Labour Party had 385 members excluding affiliates. It had an income of around £9,362 and an expenditure of £11,386.
The Socialist Labour Party currently has one elected council member who sits on the parish council for West Horndon in Essex.
Arthur Scargill formed the Socialist Labour Party in 1996 as a reaction to Tony Blair's rewrite of Clause IV in the Labour Party's constitution a year earlier, seen as a final rejection of a commitment to socialism. The SLP advocates the public ownership of leading industries - which had been privatised under Conservative Party prime minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s, with the policy being maintained by her successor John Major and then advocated by Labour Party leader Tony Blair in his re-write of Clause IV.
In 2004, a purge of Marxist-Leninists from the SLP, over the issue of relations with North Korea, led to the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist).
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