9-8-06, 8:52 a.m.
The following is a statement for the press released by the Political Committee, Communist Party of Britain, on September 6.
'The issue is not whether Blair goes - it's whether his disastrous policies go with him', Communist Party industrial organiser Kevin Halpin declared on Wednesday.
'Blair's support for the US drive to world domination through fighting unwinnable wars has led to one pack of lies after another about Iraq, Afghanistan and now Iran,' he told the party's political committee.
Britain's Communists are calling for a massive turn-out on September 23 in Manchester, on the eve of the Labour Party conference, to demonstrate against military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and against any attack on Iran.
'Blair and Brown also want to waste £25 billion on a new generation of nuclear weapons after Trident', Mr Halpin pointed out, urging support for the 'Scotland's for Peace' long walk due to start from Faslane on September 14.
'People who value our hard-won freedoms are also repelled by New Labour's continuing assault on democratic rights', he added, citing Home Secretary Reid's announcement that he would ignore court injunctions and send suspected 'terrorists' back to countries which practice torture.
But Mr Halpin predicted that it could be the creeping privatisation of the NHS (National Health Service) which brings about the New Labour clique's downfall.
'The decision to hand over NHS hospital supplies to a US-German consortium shows that New Labour have learnt nothing from the costly mistakes made in contracting out computerised systems and hospital meals', he charged.
'This should shatter any remaining illusions in the Warwick Agreement,' he added, urging trade unions to submit emergency resolutions to the TUC (Trades Union Congress) and Labour Party conferences opposing the private take-over of the NHS.
The Communist Party political committee expressed support for trade union calls to boycott Peugeot cars in protest at the decision to transfer production overseas from the highly unionised plant at Ryton, and to boycott Post Office facilities being transferred to WH Smith department stores.
Full support was also pledged for the Prison Officers Association which is balloting for a pay strike in defiance of legislation banning industrial action in the prison service.
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