THE BILL | IMGpapers 1976

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the amount of Scottish Assembly will economist, of those in public employment. a joint ELECTIONS: First standard first past the post' system CONTROL: The general control universities), health, front control lano use rents. agriculture, Scottish ency will laye Investment controt over Tactory bullding Scottish law, including criminal and private law such legialtion ceptable effects. be able to lay THE DEVOLUTION TABLET HAS THE RIGHT AND TO. OVERRULE.

2 THOU SHALT HAVE REVENUE: The Assemblies are being given no powers to raise tneir own taxes Air revenue will come trom block arents which will be decided Westminster receive a grant o to it for and the Welsh Assembly a tions actually are. rAT PULICT. ine two administration will have to abide by UK pay policies Reserve powers will be retained by West- PROGRAMME minster to determine pay and conditions elections wi -ake place in 1978. They will be held under the Assemblies have WOrr They Winaise nousine orovision anc There will be limited powers over fisheries and harbours Development Agency runcuons, ano LAW: The Scottish Assembly will control general and prisons VETO: Westminster will have powers t tackle them. scrap d ocolsn assemoly bul and will De able to revoke a law passed by eitne Assembly if it is judged to have 'unacguidelines on thi investment policies of the development assume talist anarchy I cant swallow the Assembly.

Does this some capitalist conspiracy.

To turn your back on this mood whatever -ILS petty bourgeois manifestations, would be stupid. The Assembly is here to stay, and as long as working people look some solution, socialists have to point out what these soluThe parasitic overseas investment which characterises Scottish banking, the get-rich-quick plunder of the multinationals, the barrier of total secrecy which envelops the oil industry, where even the Government is systematically conned by Dig busi ness, the human misery of Glasgow as the worst slum in Europe - the problems are obvious enough, and only the boldest and most audacious cuts. shift in wealth and power towards working people can even begin to The cornerstone of such an approach would be punitive taxation and nationalisation, yet these measures are specifically ruled out by the Government's Bill, with the Assembly denied any power to raise revenue. This clause has to be flung out.

But working class represenatives would be foolish to wait for Westminster's permission to launch such a socialist programme. Instead they must fight for the Assembly td powers necessary tackle the legacy of 150 years of capiThe key to any such programme would be for the workers parties to form the executive of the Assembly. Given the flirtation of Sillars, the SLP leader, with the SNP it becomes doubly important to reject any coalition or deal with the Nationalists in mean that socialists should be in favour of independence?

SIZE LIE phrase of 'separatism' is one invented by the Labour bureaucrats against the SNP, whose real position is class. for self-government inside loyalty to

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4 RED WEEKLY 9 December 1976

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