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 SWPaccommodates
to Scottish nationalism December 7 2006
The Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are striving
to become junior partners of the Scottish National Party,
writes Jim Moody- Breakaway
deeply divided from birth November 16 2006
Peter Manson reports on the uneasy alliances within
Tommy Sheridan's new party Solidarity
- Siding
with Murdoch October 12 2006
As the Scottish Socialist Party held its annual conference
over the weekend of October 7-8, the feud between Tommy
Sheridan and his former comrades spiralled out of control.
Nick Rogers reports
- Don’t
talk about George!
Workers Unity platform members attempted to get
an emergency motion on the McNeilage scandal debated
at the Scottish Socialist Party conference, but
it was ruled out of order. Sandy McBurney spoke
to Peter Manson
- SSP
says it will not expel tape man George McNeilage October
5 2006
Peter Manson reports on the latest developments in the
Tommy Sheridan saga
- Accountability
and Tommy rot September 14 2006
Mark Fischer argues that there are more important issues
at stake in the SSP fiasco than who lied and who told
the truth about Tommy Sheridan’s sex life
- A
tale of two rallies September 7 2006
Last weekend saw the SSP and Tommy Sheridan’s Solidarity
grouping organising rival rallies to formally signal
the completion of the split. Nick Rogers reports from
Glasgow
- McCombes
or Sheridan, the problem is still nationalism August
31 2006
Peter Manson comments on the split of the Scottish Socialist
Party
- After
the court victory, civil war begins in earnest August
10 2006
Peter Manson comments on what awaits the Scottish Socialist
Party in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan's court victory
- Sheridan
wins first round
Mike Macnair discusses some of the legal implications
of the case and argues that socialists should not
use the bourgeois press to fight out their differences
- Struggle
must begin afresh
Nick Rogers, a member of the SSP Workers Unity platform,
gives his view on the crisis
- Prostitution
policy and the NOTW smears
Mike Macnair remembers the discussion in the SSP
over the question of prostitution
- What
went wrong?
The SSP went into court without any political plan,
writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic
Group
Series: Nationalism and the SSP
- Defending
national socialism is not Marxism July 20 2006
Jack Conrad begins an extensive reply to Bob Goupillot
with an examination of the principle of ‘one state,
one party’ and its history
- Nationalist
myths are not Marxism July 27 2006
Jack Conrad argues against the Scottish Socialist Party’s
claim that Scotland is an oppressed nation, an English
colony. Prior to the 1707 Act of Union Scotland was
not a nation
- Not
oppressed but a joint oppressor August 3 2006
Was Scotland subject to a takeover by England in 1707?
Does Scotland suffer from English cultural imperialism?
Jack Conrad questions some more left nationalist myths
and assumptions
- British
duality and the class struggle August 10 2006
National consciousness is complex. As Jack Conrad shows,
British national consciousness is particularly complex,
being at the same time English, Scottish and Welsh.
It also involves class and class struggle
- The
determination of revolution August 31 2006
Jack Conrad discusses strategy and contrasts Scottish
national socialism with the communist demand for national
self-determination
- In
revealing company September 7 2006
Jack Conrad draws parallels between ‘proletarian
nationalism’ and the SSP and Solidarity in Scotland
today
- Different
roads to unity July 20 2006
Should ‘one state, one party’ be applied to
Britain in current political circumstances? Bob Goupillot
of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland) and the
Scottish Socialist Party argues that the unity of the
working class can at present best be served by a separate
party for Scotland
- A
pox on both their houses June 29 2006
The split between the two wings of the Scottish Socialist
Party continues to widen. Peter Manson examines latest
developments
- Battle
lines drawn June 22 2006
Tommy Sheridan has launched a Bonapartist power-grab.
This weekend’s national council looks set to ratchet
up tensions even further, writes Peter Manson
- Bonapartist
demagogy in barbed financial appeal
Tommy Sheridan’s no-holds-barred letter to
Scottish Socialist Party members and below the official
diplomatic response distributed by national secretary
Allan Green
- Unity
and the SSP
Is working class unity helped by a separate Scottish
Socialist Party and the strategy for an ‘independent
socialist Scotland’? The following exchange
took place recently on the Socialist Alliance internet
discussion list between Bob Goupillot - a member
of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland),
one of the SSP’s smaller platforms - and Jack
Conrad. Things kicked off when comrade Goupillot
defended the SSP after a posting by Jim Gilbert
- Bitter
fruits of personality politics June 15 2006
SSP member Nick Rogers gives his view of the crisis
engulfing the party. Tommy Sheridan’s celebrity
status should have been tackled decisively at an early
stage
- Defend
SSP’s Alan McCombes June 8 2006
Earlier this week the Scottish Socialist Party’s
press and policy coordinator Alan McCombes was found
guilty of contempt and fined £500. But he will
have to pay costs of around £45,000 in total
- Scottish
Socialist Party spirals into all out civil war June
1 2006
Peter Manson looks at the factions and politics behind
the headlines and Tommy Sheridan's grab for power
- Sheridan:
SSP is my party
Open letter to SSP members from Tommy Sheridan headed
‘Yes to class solidarity and socialist unity.
No to political witch-hunts and personal character
assassinations’ and dated May 28
- Come
to your senses
Statement by Alan McCombes on his release from Saughton
jail, May 29
- Personality
crisis May 18 2006
The Scottish Socialist Party appears to be on the brink
of a potentially devastating split between, on the one
hand, the supporters of the party’s former convenor
and most prominent figure, Tommy Sheridan, and, on the
other, the leadership majority around the SSP’s
main theoretician, policy and press coordinator Alan
McCombes. Peter Manson reports
- Left nationalists
at the crossroads March 9 2006
A much divided Scottish Socialist Party held its annual
conference in Dundee on March 4-5. Nick Rogers was there
- Allying with the nationalists
March 2 2006
Nick Rogers looks at the key issue before this weekend’s
annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Party
- Put
up or shut up June 16 2005
Mark Fischer has penned this open letter to the SSP
executive, in which he challenges the comrades to repudiate
the smears against the CPGB made by the SSP press officer
Eddie Truman
- Truman
smears
We reprint the SSP press officer’s accusations
against the CPGB
- Smears
and innuendoes June 9 2005
Leading members of the Scottish Socialist Party are
yet again attacking the Weekly Worker - this time for
feeding members' email addresses to the bourgeois media.
Such absurd lies tell you a lot about the party's difficulties,
argues Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson
- Vote SSP - critically
April 14 2005
Alan Fox looks at the Scottish Socialist Party’s
general electionchallenge and urges support, even though
it espouses nationalism and a reformist socialism
- Nationalists fall out
April 14 2005
Last week's Weekly Worker article sparked an illuminating
debate in the SSP. Peter Manson reports
- The
right to say what is April 7 2005
Communists have fiercely opposed the Scottish Socialist
Party’s complete surrender to nationalism, writes
Peter Manson. We are equally opposed to the SSP’s
intolerance - shared with much of the left - of anything
resembling sharply expressed poles
- Communists
and open polemic April 14 2005
In the context of the SSP and the censorship of unacceptable
views Ian Mahoney contrasts the big brother approach
of Eddie Truman with that of the CPGB with its Leninist
tradition of polemical exchange
- Nationalist rat deserts
sinking opportunist ship March 10 2005
Gregor Gall has left the Socialist Worker platform of
the Scottish Socialist Party. We reprint his criticism
of the SWP - with an introduction by Jack Conrad, who
in turn criticises Gall's nationalism
- Splits
at the top, confusion all round February 17 2005
The Scottish Socialist Party has a new convenor. Colin
Fox, MSP for the Lothians, was decisively elected by
delegates to the party’s annual conference. Nick
Rogers reports from Scotland on the implications for
the SSP
- Left
unity and separatism February 10 2005
This weekend the national conference of the Scottish
Socialist Party will witness its first outing post-Tommy
Sheridan and will allow us to judge how well it has
weathered the convulsions of the last few months
- Keep
off our turf December 9 2004
A letter to Respect national council from Tommy Sheridan
and SSP national secretary Allan Green dated December
7
- Weapon
of class war December 9 2004
Ever since the working class got organised and started
to pose a real threat to the current order, the ‘dark
forces’ of the bourgeoisie have hit back - with
forged ‘evidence’, sex scandals, accusations
of espionage and worse. Tina Becker looks back over
the history of scandal used as a weapon
- Members
back Sheridan sacking December 2 2004
Scottish Socialist Party members have voted overwhelmingly
to endorse the executive committee's handling of the
Tommy Sheridan fiasco, but many details of meetings
between the former SSP leader and the executive which
ended in his resignation are still being kept secret.
Peter Manson asks what political conclusions can be
drawn from the SSP crisis
- Not
George Washington
Was the membership's decision to depose Scottish
Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan a sound one?
SSP member Tom Delargy looks at the lessons which
can be learnt from the party's leadership crisis
- Gagging
order
SSP National Secretary Allan Green's letter to members
regarding leader Tommy Sheridan's resignation, the
Executive Committee's statement and Tommy Sheridan's
response.
- Rumours
and Leadership Crisis November 18 2004
Sex scandals, factional manouvering and political dishonesty.
Jonathon Drake reflects on the resignation of Scottish
Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan
- Nationalism
- wrong answer July 1 2004
Sarah McDonald analyses the resignation of John Swinney
of the Scottish National Party - but doubts that the
Scottish Socialist Party can benefit from the crisis
- Nationalism
holds sway April 1 2004
Sarah McDonald attended the annual conference of the
Scottish Socialist Party
- British
socialism at crossroads March 25 2004
Why does the left in England lag behind, compared to
the achievements of the Scottish Socialist Party? SSP
member Nick Rogers examines the reasons and discusses
the prospects for Respect
- Two
conferences March 25 2004
Jack Conrad contrasts the confidence and vibrance of
the Scottish Socialist Party to the death rattle of
the Socialist Alliance, struck down by its own leadership
- Unity
is a democratic demand too October 30 2003
Sarah McDonald attended the October 26 meeting of the
Scottish Socialist Party's national council
- Tensions
rise to the surface October 23 2003
Sarah McDonald reports on the Scottish Socialist Party's
Socialism 2003 weekend school
- Dilemma
of separatism October 23 2003
Nick Rogers sees the fault-lines of the SSP's socialist
rhetoric and its nationalist trajectory
- Bob
Crow and Scotland October 16 2003
The RMT union has donated £5,000 to the Scottish
Socialist Party. Jack Conrad takes a look at the politics
behind the gift.
- Socialism
and Scottish independence October 2 2003
Would the break-up of Britain advance the cause of socialism?
Is the creation of more and more smaller, nationally
based states something to be encouraged? Nick Rogers
of the Scottish Socialist Party answers in the negative
- SSP
- independent capitalist Scotland? September 3 2003
Sarah McDonald was one of 100 members who attended the
Scottish Socialist Party's national council meeting
- Executive
action February 27 2003
SSP members discussed the composition of the executive
committee. Sarah McDonald looks at the implications
- The
sum of its parts
Tom Delargy of the SSP’s Workers Unity platform
looks at the performance of the various factions
at last weekend’s conference in Glasgow
- CWI
- red or tartan
How has Peter Taaffe's rump organisation in Scotland
fared inside the SSP? Sarah McDonald takes a look
- Growing
tensions October 17 2002
Beneath the surface not everything is well between the
Scottish Socialist Party leadership and the Socialist
Worker platfom. In this controversial and closed document,
presented to the SW platform’s October 5 aggregate,
Mark Brown discusses what he calls the “risk”
of a shift by the SSP leadership “in the direction
of a left-nationalist, reformist politics”, the
leadership’s anti-Labour sectarianism and the need
to increase the circulation of Socialist Worker. While
we pose the necessity of an all-Britain democratic centralist
party, the SW comrades still suffer from a narrow, sect-building
perspective
- Scottish
mists and Polish echoes August 1 2002
Jack Conrad dissects the national socialism of the Scottish
Socialist Party
- No
euro, please - we're Scottish June 27 2002
The SSP has thrown it weight behind the 'no' campaign.
Ronnie Mejka reports
- SSP
rules, okay? June 27 2002
Comrades in Scotland discussed changes to the SSP's
constitution
- Motion
No2 and Europe June 6 2002
Scottish Socialist Party member Nick Rogers argues for
a boycott of the euro referendum
- Scottish
Socialist Party: SSP maverick ruffles feathers May
30 2002
Scottish Socialist Voice's 'Rebel Ink' columnist Kevin
Williamson has caused consternation. Sarah MacDonald
and James mallory investigate
- Sex
divisions and pseudo science February 28 2002
Have men and women - or blacks and whites - being ‘pre-programmed’
by evolution to be different? Danny Hammill replies
to the SSP’s Kevin Williamson
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