- working class constituencies have solidly backed an broad labour movement throughout Britain needs to organise support for the democratic rights of Scottish people — despite the antics of the Tory and Labour leaders.
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attempting to government's which led that TZe OUE And while two- Party's held alter almost nrmea ls Labour conference of the Assembly.
with emergency the La dangerous He HTC eSS oruny LES RSO Scottish saw an means to labour government's policies. obviously too the present time.
Tories, media, Confederation of sions among What is campaign that devolution campaign They want the link with Westminster to protect them united, militant It was the failure of the Scottish TUC and the Labour Party's Scottish executive link their Yes campaign with the projection of an Assembly to be used as a launching pad for an offensive against the Tory policies campaign to the Labour Scottish conference, Telerenom unanimously 'reafcommitment devolution', the mood of the Was to allow Westminster to decide the fate The unions which had come resolutions calling for the Assembly to be set up immediately were easily persuaded to withdraw them in The likelihood, therefore, that we will see the growth of a populist, nationalist movement in Scotland, with the SNP now energetically re-orienting itself towards the working class.
possible that the will manage to resurrect itself.
The two main planks of its Only programme alter the split from Assembly the Labour Party were that the HIOVCHEICHIL is incapable of giving home rule to Scotland, and opposition to right-wing meet In So the SLP is well placed at rights But "separatist' socialist solution, ments. dressed in left-wing demagogy, would create disastrous divithe working class as a whole.
needed is throughout the challenge British labour movement to authority. support the democratic rights of the Scottish people. The 52 In fact he decides - that's the problem!
per cent Yes vote has to be recognised, with the immediate setting up of an Assembly.
directly-elected would begin to satisfy those rights.
The present talk in Westminster of allowing Parliament's Scottish Grand Committee to Edinburgh is quite simply a denial of democratic and an attempt to CRSS head off "home rule' sentitoo CommTLee which includes English MPs, has its constitution and agenda fixed by the House of Commons averting any possibility of a to Parliament's A campaign for an immediate Assembly is the only way Our socialism will be infinitely more democratic than what exists in that the strength, unity, and confidence MENE working class can be maintained.
Socialists should take the opportunity of fighting for this demand at the Scottish TUC, which meets next month must aim to win the STUC as a champion of the democratic rights of the Scottish working Without being able to expect much within the Labour Party, unity between all the forces who support the immediate setting up of ar Assembly is all the more vital.
These include Militant and Workers Action supporters in the Labour Party, the Socialist Workers Party, and the International Marxist Group