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Labour Action for Peace was founded 1940 as an organisation of Labour Party members and supporters working for peace, socialism and disarmament, and seeking to make these issues the forefront of Labour Party policy.
Welcome to our website. Recent events: LAP joins LRC
The re-birth of the Labour Representation Committee (name of the party from 1900 to 1906) promises well for democratic debate, peace, disarmament and socialism.
LAP has affiliated; the executive committee having tried for some time to find such an appropriate link, since New Labour's failure on all of LAP's goals.
Publications
World Against War Demos
Organised by Stop the War Coalition
Stop the War CoalitionJohn McDonnell MP - on The Labour Representation Committee
Post-Blair, the Labour Party has not changed. The democratic deficit increases. A neo-liberal, market dominated, offensive privatising programme continues.
When resolutions are forbidden at Party conference and taboos placed on debating nuclear re-armament and foreign policy, it is high time to act. .............
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Palestine
Is President George W Bush sincere about wanting to see an autonomous and independent Palestine State established during the waning months of his presidency?
Is it just hollow rhetoric as he allows Israel to attack Gaza with complete impunity?
Israel's on-going violations are aimed at fostering animosity between the various Palestinian factions, and thus delaying any eventual dialogue, whilst more illegal Israeli settlements are built.
Is Ehud Olmert now an un-indicted war criminal no less?
Israel in Palestine - Recent Reports
Israel's Bloody Rampage through Gaza brings International Condemnation
3rd March 2008 - Six days of totally disproportionate Israeli military action by air and ground forces waged in Gaza has left over 100 Palestinians dead and 1 Israeli man killed in rocket retaliation.
At least a hundred Palestinians were slaughtered; the vast majority being reported as innocent children and civilians regarded simply as "collateral damage" by the Israeli military and its Commander in Chief Ehud Olmert as homes were targeted and destroyed. Mr Olmert remains defiant following international criticism.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel's action in the strongest diplomatic terms, but also denounced the Hamas missile attacks which killed one Israeli man, the first Israeli fatality in nine months from in-coming Hamas rocketry.
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas froze all contact with Israel, thus putting any possible peace talks on hold on the eve of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Jerusalem. This latest military rampage by Israel follows the 1996 Israeli destruction of South Lebanon, when thousands of cluster bomblets were dropped on civilian areas as a parting gesture, and in fragrant contradiction of all international law.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appears to believe he has the US guarantee of total immunity and can thus flout all international rules of law and humanitarian conventions. He has surely now, by his actions both in Lebanon and Gaza, committed crimes against humanity in deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and populations.
BBC report 02 March Associated Press report 28 February The Lebanon Destruction