IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 79, 18 January 1979 · p. 6 of the scan · 163 words

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THEN HOTC that Then are THes far the best method of exercising Scotland's right to self-determination would be by elections to Assembly, with no restrictions are not in determine the questions in the referendum, but we are sull rorced le the Scottish people will arrive at such an One (though not the only) essential way to fight for such an Assembly is by the largest majority for the setting up of the government's version. Large abstentions of passivity can only weaken the Will the referendum strengthen the power of Westminster in relation to the Scottish masses?

an No, in fact it makes the setting up of the Assembly an act of even neaseives. 1S through the framework, of bourgeois deThis action, no how atomised or electoral, will make it very difficult to interfere with the Assembly once it's set up.

Of course the government will claim a mandate for it vetoes and limitation, but the powers of the Assembly in the

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