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

[Stuart Munckton]

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> What a joke this is. They win 43 votes more than Solidarity and you'd think
> they'd won the seat.


http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/new_stories/glasgoweast/result.html

Actually if you read the account, it spends most of its time celebrating how
New Labour was punished. It is only towards the very end that they even get
around to discussing the socialist vote.

And, when they do, it highlights what sticks out like a sore thumb - that a
united vote would have seen, despite all of the other factors pulling
against a socialist vote, that a united socialist vote would have replicated
the previous SSP vote and beaten the Liberal Democrats

And it makes the point about how damaging divisions like this are.


> I won't attempt to point out the obvious - i.e., that
> with  two candidates with the last name Curran, one of them the SSP
> candidate and
> one  New Labour, there was always going to be an element of confusion. No,
> I
> won't  point this out as that would be churlish.


Yes, we agree.


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> The SSP are now and will forever be known as scabs.


In time this furore will pass, as the actual needs of new challenges in the
class struggle take precedence. Maybe you wont get over it, but the needs of
the class struggle will increasingly demand greater unity. Hopefully, people
on different sides of this current dispute wont allow sentiments like this
one to get in the way.

Stuart

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