expelled from Jim Sillars' Scottish Labour Party.
*The oil boom - what a Joke.
BP. Shell and the big banks are making pienty our or n. but all that working people in Aberdeen nave seen is rockeung nouse prices and anti-union cowboy employers. that the Scottish National Party wants to build a "new Scotland with. Our campaign is a step in showing that any alternative to the Labour Party has to come from the left." Red Weekly asked the seven candidates on the Scottish Socialist League slate to explain what issues they were putting to the forefront of their campaign in the Council elections on 5 May. All the candidates were amongst the socialists undemocratically election campaign in Aberdeen.
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Ron Cormack, a recently victimised steward in the Direct Labour Department and a candidate for Links ward in Edinburgh, was one marchers against the closure of Robb-Caledon rig construction yard in Leith last week. "Immediate takeover for our MPs like King Murray, the local Labour MP, to do more than grovel in front of big business. But -can't afford longer.
The same message was hammered home by the other Edinburgh candidates. Pauline Tierney, school convenor and a member of the Primary School section execitive of her union, explained how the election campaign would provide an opportunity to say more than just tract". we can our alternative: for a 35-hour week on the employers, open all company books to the trade unions, take over une banks and tne nuance houses — neasures which working peopl must begin to act on now Jenny Donaldson, by the ploved AUEW HULL FIGHT CUTS