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

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Stuart:
 
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
 
Reply:
 
In time it will NOT pass. This attempt by you, and them, to paint the  
Sheridan case as some irrelevant and inconvenient  sideshow disconnected from the 
class struggle is despicable. The  Sheridan case against the News of the World 
IS the class struggle at its  sharpest.
 
On one side is a man who's been one of the most high profile, successful,  
and effective voices against war, racism, privatization, against all of the  
attendant symptoms of capitalism, and on the other is an organisation, News  
International, which embodies those symptoms, which exists to propagate war,  
racism, sexism, inequality, and so on.
 
It couldn't be more clear. The class struggle doesn't end at the door of a  
bourgeois court. The class struggle is heightened in court.
 
It is because of this that the SSP simply cannot be considered a credible  
organisation to represent the interests of the working class in Scotland.