OVER the past ten years everyone in Scottish politics socialists must vote Yes in the has been forced to relate to the demands for an elected thousands of working people past.
The SNP irrelevant obscurity to become the second largest scoland hundreds of local councillors, and thousands of members. It to us. look for was the fastest growing party in Europe.
ancipe to get our or tne crisis of capitalism.
Ordinary people who support an Assembly have no other regional experience than political system. natural for them to express this desire for change throught the ballot box, and at first the SP Safe Labour was the appeared to support them.
that the Assembly is irrelevant will vote Yes. carworkers; publie sector workers; women who see the from chance for a change.
I Pary abstract nor irrelevant whether MPs, or not there is an Assembly. And it shouldn't be irrelevant vote should attain 40 per cent of What this reflected was an all those entitled to vote places an added responsibility on the trade UHOT movement.
the present will make it easier, not harder So it was for us to tackle the illusions of ordinary people placing only party which bankrupt and the SNP.
among other things, by the involvement of Labour councillors in several local govern.
Callaghan, ment corruption scandals. Speaker But the capitalist forces in the CBI and Tory Party know that it could mean much more visible than this Labour oppose it.
The powers laid down for the Assembly are very limited. But Nor they know that, dominated as it would be by Labour and the left populists of Plaid, increasing pressure could focus on it to act and ine independently on the problems of unemployment, housing, the language, and so on. are It would question: •Do Welsh have the right to decide their And to that question we reply emphatically: Yes.
If is for this reason that organisation will cast their votes in favour: and no matter how confused they are about what role the voting against the present mess remain o sil on the fence and sar On Thursday lots of people Some will queue others striking Assembly as a OLE To these workers it is neither I nat Is certainty The requirement that the Yes demise.
and labour P Seligman The existence of an Assembly Martin Avery Anon by firmly them the jumble sale GIrwin policies of Labour Preston IMG A Freeman This through - which is why they Name Address highlight the people phoned up the William Hill week and asked what odds they would give us for the Shah dying within three months 'We aren't offering odds was the reply. 'We don't take bets on certainties.' So the fund drive's attempts restricted more conventional ventures. Camden Socialist Challenge group threw us a hefty lifebelt by organising a jumble sale which raisca an impressive Los But for that donation and another regular benefit from our stamp sales organiser we would all be facing the prospect of the dole A big nationwide effort is now required if we are to meet quarter's target. If our readers don't rush us substantial donations in the next couple NI of weeks this column will get increasingly hysterical.
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