and organise a demonstration in May was the result of a day long meeting on DefCalled by the South West Region of Doug Cook, a local NALGO official and SWTUC executive member, Bernard Dix an alternative plan to the Government's without any practical proposals for workers enquiries, opening ISES.
Nevertreless, militants will be able to use the potentially useful proposals for a regional conference and local demo to build a united campaign against the cuts available for 20p (inc. p&p) from 119A Condemning Government policies is one thing, Fighting for alternative policies around which to unite the working class in action is another. The debates on both devolution and an alternative economic policy reflected this difference.
The devolution debate saw left and right uniting to find the lowest common political denominator which could defeat the Nationalists and relieve the presLabour Party. A souped up version of we Government s waite raper was ad vanced, calling for a proposed Scottish Assembly to have control over the Scottish Development Authority and for the abolition of the veto power of the Scottish Secretary of State. No proposals were advanced as to how the Scottish working class could use such an Assembl to fight both the attacks of the British Government and those of the oil giants, financiers and multinationals that are seizing Scotland through the NationalWho decides?
In spite of a resolution from Central Ayrsue wmen described Ine wnite Paper as an insult to the political consciousness of the Scottish people, the logical step of arguing that only the Scottish people should decide the powers ol such an Assembly at the same time as they clect parties to it was not taken
Red Weekly 1 April 1976