Socialist Labour Party

One of the key pledges of Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party is a four-day working week.

The party formed in 1996 when Mr Scargill says Labour "abandoned any pretence of being a socialist party... and openly embraced capitalism".

The SLP is putting up 114 candidates at the election.

New Labour has proved a willing handmaiden to multinational corporations and bodies like the International Monetary Fund which preside over global poverty, illiteracy, disease, war and pollution

Arthur Scargill

Miners' leader Mr Scargill - who is standing in Hartlepool against Labour's Peter Mandelson - describes his party as the "political heir" to the miners' strike of the mid-1980s.

He is vehemently opposed to the European Union, as "an exclusive capitalist club" and to the single currency.

The party would not only pull out of the EU, it would disband Nato and end Britain's "slavish support" to US foreign policy.

A nation led by Mr Scargill would abolish the monarchy and the House of Lords.

Haven for refugees

The party would end Britain's presence in Northern Ireland and lift the blockades against Cuba and Iraq.

Socialist Labour Party Leader, Arthur Scargill

Mr Scargill would also like Britain to become a haven for refugees fleeing injustice and oppression.

He told BBC News Online that: "New Labour has proved a willing handmaiden to multinational corporations and bodies like the International Monetary Fund which preside over global poverty, illiteracy, disease, war and pollution."

The party will be fielding 116 candidates across the country, including 12 in Scotland and 5 in Wales.