[Marxism] The Scottish Socialist Party: the biggest small party | Links

[Stuart Munckton]

The blaming of the SSP for perjury charges is ironic, since that is exactly
what the SSP members called to testify in Sheridan's argue they were being
demanded to open themselves up to - to open themselves up to perjury charges
and jail sentences.

If the SSP is such a poisonous rump, why did they receive more votes (just)
than Solidarity in the Glasgow East by-election? The combined vote of the
two would have seen the socialist left come fourth, beating the Liberal
Democrats and scoring a combined percentage marginally higher than in 2005
SSP result (marginally lower raw number ofv otes).

The key problem is not that the SSP is a  "poisonous rump", but that the
socialist forces are divided - which I suspect is more off-putting to
working people than any of the wild allegations thrown around. This
destructive division of the Scottish left is not helped in the slightest by
labeling a key section of it the State Security Party.

Stuart