Weekly Worker 124 Thursday January 4 1996
The fight for a Socialist Labour Party
Unofficial discussions have continued throughout the Christmas period on the form and potential of Scargill’s proposal for a Socialist Labour Party. At present the CPGB is in discussion with other organisations to produce a ‘Democracy Platform’ that can be the basis for the forging of new working class, socialist organisation.
Discussions this month are crucial to save the project from the bureaucratic monstrosity suggested in Scargill’s constitution, published in Weekly Worker 122. This document is incredibly still being treated as a secret document. It is now the subject of debate in bourgeois media circles, with the Independent (January 3) quoting the “leaked constitution” and Radio Four’s news at 1pm on the same day speculating on where the leak came from.
Another private and ‘secret’ meeting is planned in London on January 13 before a more public affair on February 10.
This whispering campaign must be ended. Revolutionaries must work vigorously between now and these two meetings to ensure that the widest possible forces are involved in the debate at meetings and in our papers. The best way to do this is to spread the Socialist Forums, initiated in Scotland, all over Britain.
Dundee Socialist Forum
Next meeting is on January 16 in Dundee Trades Council. A proposed constitution for a Scottish Socialist Alliance will be discussed at this meeting. Communists are arguing for full inclusion of Scottish organisations inside an SLP and against a separate Scottish organisation (see Weekly Worker 123)
For details of CPGB activity in Scotland contact PO Box 6773, Dundee DD1 1YL, or call 01382-667517
The case for an SLP
Speakers from Hackney and Islington Militant Labour, CPGB (Hackney branch) and SML. Tuesday January 16 at 7.30pm in the Halkevi Centre, Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London N16 (Dalston Kingsland BR)
The fight for an SLP
Speakers from CPGB (Brent branch) and SML. Wednesday January 17 at 7.30pm in Willesden Green Library Centre, Willesden High Rd, London NW10 (Willesden Green tube)
Kent Socialist Forum
Next meeting will continue the discussion on the SLP at 7.30pm on Wednesday January 17 in Canterbury
