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

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Monday June 28, 2004 20:53

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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."

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Comments (64 of 64)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	history repeats itself	Anarcho	Mon Jun 28, 2004 21:26
2	"New working class party"??	curious	Mon Jun 28, 2004 23:38
3	Dont expect the lead to come from the trots	Conor	Mon Jun 28, 2004 23:41
4	More please	spark	Tue Jun 29, 2004 09:59
5	Free State Labour	curious	Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:02
6	SSP Say Labour Kick Workers in the teeth	pat c	Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:15
7	Rewriting an old masterpiece	Zimmerman	Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:27
8	Conor SA	parrott	Tue Jun 29, 2004 13:15
9	-	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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