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Fire Fighters break with New Labour- Time for a new working class party

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | press release author Monday June 28, 2004 20:53author by f Report this post to the editors

Socialist Party press release

The national conference of the Fire Brigades Union has taken the historic decision to break with Tony Blair’s New Labour party. The motion for disaffiliation was moved by Northern Ireland fire fighter and Socialist Party member Tony Maguire.

The FBU is one of the most important and best known trade unions in Britain. Its decision comes at the end of a series of bad election results and foreign policy disasters for New Labour. The decision by the FBU will compound Tony Blair’s problems and may be the trigger for other unions leaving New Labour.

New Labour receives the bulk of its funding from trade unions including trade unions representing workers in Northern Ireland.

In moving the motion Tony Maguire, from Northern Ireland, said the FBU had been "demonised" by the government during the last pay dispute.

"Our party, the party that we nurtured through the Thatcher years and the party trade unions give millions of pounds to, has stabbed us not in the back, but in the heart," he said.

"Our members have been betrayed and they feel angry and bitter and they want this mirage of a relationship with new Labour severed."

He said it was time to "start fighting like tigers" to win influence the government was denying them.

Commenting on the outcome of the vote to disaffiliate, which was carried by 35,000 votes to 14,000, Socialist Party member Tony Maguire said, "As trade unionists and socialists we are opposed to every aspect of New Labour policy.

Public services and manufacturing industry have been plunged into crisis in Northern Ireland. New Labour is planning to impose water charges of up to £600 per household in Northern Ireland. In these circumstances it is completely illogical to continue to be affiliated to New Labour. The FBU has not rejected the ideas of political trade unionism but we do believe that we should be supporting a political party that represents the interests of unions, communities and young people not a party that has clearly been hijacked by big business.

I believe that the time has come for a new working class party to be formed, one that is really based on solidarity and socialism."

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   history repeats itself     Anarcho    Mon Jun 28, 2004 21:26 
   "New working class party"??     curious    Mon Jun 28, 2004 23:38 
   Dont expect the lead to come from the trots     Conor    Mon Jun 28, 2004 23:41 
   More please     spark    Tue Jun 29, 2004 09:59 
   Free State Labour     curious    Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:02 
   SSP Say Labour Kick Workers in the teeth     pat c    Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:15 
   Rewriting an old masterpiece     Zimmerman    Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:27 
   Conor SA     parrott    Tue Jun 29, 2004 13:15 
   -     f    Tue Jun 29, 2004 13:24 
 10   'Parrott'     f    Tue Jun 29, 2004 13:29 
 11   Pay Rise     Voice of Reason    Tue Jun 29, 2004 13:51 
 12   Fair play to them     John Prescott    Tue Jun 29, 2004 13:58 
 13   MILITANT ABU     wanker    Tue Jun 29, 2004 16:50 
 14   Who??     spark    Tue Jun 29, 2004 19:06 
 15   Time for the SP to respect culture, not for the SWP to respect sugar candy mountain     Conor    Tue Jun 29, 2004 21:37 
 16   where to from here ?     tom    Tue Jun 29, 2004 22:15 
 17   40%     Voice of Reason    Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:26 
 18   Conor I don't have time to respond in detail     Brian    Wed Jun 30, 2004 13:13 
 19   SP Hypocrisy On Drugs     Raver    Wed Jun 30, 2004 16:42 
 20   Hey, that's progress     Ray    Wed Jun 30, 2004 16:52 
 21   Re: Voice of Reason (?)     Yossarian    Wed Jun 30, 2004 18:16 
 22   Nice try     Brian    Thu Jul 01, 2004 01:17 
 23   SP Opportunism     Raver    Thu Jul 01, 2004 13:27 
 24   Arguing with the anonymous     Brian    Thu Jul 01, 2004 13:56 
 25   Ireland     Raver    Thu Jul 01, 2004 14:10 
 26   Sorry Raver     Brian    Thu Jul 01, 2004 14:22 
 27   SP and Drugs     Tim Leary    Thu Jul 01, 2004 14:24 
 28   SP Are The Cowards     Raver    Thu Jul 01, 2004 14:27 
 29   Free State Labour     Pat    Thu Jul 01, 2004 15:28 
 30   political parties     jacob    Thu Jul 01, 2004 16:34 
 31   Out of interest     Ray    Thu Jul 01, 2004 16:36 
 32   19th century bollocks from the right and lifestyle anarchists     Me    Thu Jul 01, 2004 16:44 
 33   working class     jacob    Thu Jul 01, 2004 16:49 
 34   Jacob's ladder     Me    Thu Jul 01, 2004 16:59 
 35   So, what's wrong with this definition?     Ray    Thu Jul 01, 2004 17:04 
 36   exploited and the alienated, and excluded     jacob    Thu Jul 01, 2004 17:07 
 37   re: So, what's wrong with this definition?     jacob    Thu Jul 01, 2004 17:25 
 38   Introduce me to YOUR dictionary     Me    Thu Jul 01, 2004 17:35 
 39   working class     Me Too    Fri Jul 02, 2004 14:02 
 40   Throw the Unions out of Labour Now!     maxell pro    Fri Jul 02, 2004 14:16 
 41   New mass workers parties...     f    Sat Jul 03, 2004 05:03 
 42   F     Conor    Sat Jul 03, 2004 17:16 
 43   conor     hs    Sat Jul 03, 2004 20:25 
 44   HPSP     Conor    Sat Jul 03, 2004 20:46 
 45   conor     hs    Sun Jul 04, 2004 03:36 
 46   HS     Conor    Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:32 
 47   Hi Conor     Brian C    Sun Jul 04, 2004 14:34 
 48   conor     hs    Sun Jul 04, 2004 17:54 
 49   on art and culture     hs    Sun Jul 04, 2004 18:29 
 50   SP and the new Working Class Party     Conor    Mon Jul 05, 2004 21:03 
 51   And your point?     hs    Mon Jul 05, 2004 22:51 
 52   New Party     Ken    Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:16 
 53   say what you mean and mean what you say     hs    Tue Jul 06, 2004 14:11 
 54   by the way     hs    Tue Jul 06, 2004 14:17 
 55   Yes Conor     hmv    Tue Jul 06, 2004 14:18 
 56   that make sense to you hmv?     hs    Tue Jul 06, 2004 14:59 
 57   yeah it does actually     hmv    Tue Jul 06, 2004 16:06 
 58   OK     Conor    Tue Jul 06, 2004 19:43 
 59   last comment     Chekov    Tue Jul 06, 2004 20:22 
 60   last comment     hs    Wed Jul 07, 2004 14:59 
 61   "new working class party"     boxer the horse    Wed Jul 07, 2004 15:18 
 62   Daily Scum apology     Albie Kinsella    Wed Jul 07, 2004 16:40 
 63   Plekhanov     Jimbo Jones    Sat Jul 10, 2004 01:52 
 64   same as above     just to tell you    Wed Jul 21, 2004 14:02 


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