left social-democracy (which was also But rather than hein ideological clarification of which were committed in practice to class struggle - - they were leading the Cumbernauld dustmen's strike and the education college occupations Tom Nairn sided with Jim Sillars.
Alas, Sillars turned out to be an unreconstructed example of a trade union bureaucrat and Labour Party hatchet-man. Nairn R has had the honesty to retreat on some of the positions he held in 1976, but it looks as if he has not learned any of the political lessons The question of leadership is at the question of programme Republicanism is an insufficient basis for a political assault on Labourism. Scotland is not peasant society struggling against imperialism. Scotland is the Clyde shipyard worker faced with redundancy; the Glasgow woman trying to get an abortion on London; wit line vinket in to London; the line worker multinational company fighting for a living wage; the unemployed kid in a housing scheme who has never had a The day after the general election, chairperson Willie admitted that 'we were seen as simply relevant' in the face of anti-working class attack of Thatcher. But Tom Nairn retreats into metaphysics rather Wolfe's acid judgement. Nairn says it was not simple fear of Thatcher that led to the referendum debacle and the growth of Labour support in Scotland Scotland Scottish List leadership.
how do we the Labourist autonomously, greater horrendous were he to turn his of a republic.
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