In December 1884, such important figures in England’s budding socialist movement as William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, E. Belfort Bax, and John L. Mahon, among others, broke with the Social Democratic Federation led by H. M. Hyndman and formed the Socialist League. One of the key disputes leading to the break arose in relation to Hyndman’s then scarcely concealed jingoism and strong support for the British Empire.
The immediate issue in this regard was the British government’s sending of General Charles Gordon to Khartoum in the Sudan, supposedly to evacuate civilians and troops after the Sudanese defeat in 1883 of the Egyptian expeditionary force, led by British General William Hicks. Imperial Britain had recently gained colonial control over Egypt, following the latter’s defeat in the Anglo-Egyptian War, and were then seeking to extend their rule to Sudan, which had for decades been subject to Egypt (at that time itself an imperial subject of the Ottoman Empire)
Senior transport planners and climate experts have urged transport secretary Grant Shapps and London Mayor Sadiq Khan to put an immediate stop to work on the Silvertown Tunnel to re-evaluate the scheme’s environmental impact.
In a letter to Shapps and Khan, the group of 52 academics and campaigners have called for an “emergency review” to be carried out to determine if the East London project is in line with the UK’s climate change objectives. (See below for full list of signatories.)
The group of objectors cite the government’s recent decision to intervene in the Cumbria coal mine planning row – as well as the upcoming COP26 conference – as grounds for carrying out an inquiry into the Silvertown Tunnel scheme.
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6:47 PM April 16, 2021
Campaigners have warned more is to come amid growing anger over the Silvertown Tunnel.
- Credit: Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition
Campaigners have daubed Stop the tunnel onto a River Thames embankment in protest over the controversial Silvertown Tunnel scheme.
Opponents put the words on a section of the earmarked route which would link Silvertown and the Greenwich Peninsula. They warn the action on Thursday, April 15 is a taste of things to come.
The protest was staged amid growing anger with the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the London Assembly and Transport for London (TfL) over what campaigners view as an ill-conceived climate-destroying motorway .