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	Scottish Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish Labour Party (1888-1893), founded by Robert Cunninghame-Graham who later became the first president of the Scottish National Party; and Keir Hardie, who later became the first leader of the Labour Party (UK).
		Scottish Labour Party (1976-1981), a breakaway from the Labour Party (UK), founded by Jim Sillars, then Labour MP for South Ayrshire; John Robertson, then Labour MP for Paisley; and Alex Neil, the UK Labour Party's senior Scottish researcher.
		The Labour Party of Scotland was a group centred around Dundee in 1973.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party (188 words)

	Labour Party of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Labour Party of Scotland were a small political party active in Dundee, Scotland.
		They were formed as a left-wing breakaway from the Scottish National Party (SNP) and contested the 1973 Dundee East by-election, where the number of votes they gathered were greater than the Labour Party majority over the SNP candidate Gordon Wilson.
		The party was wound up not long after the by-election without having made any substantial political impact, with many of their members returning to the SNP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Party_of_Scotland (158 words)

	Scotland's Past - The Twentieth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In monetary terms Scotland's standard of living was about the same as that of England but in health and other areas it was falling behind, one commentator has written 'in 1936 the infant mortality rate in Glasgow exceeded that for Chicago by 180 per cent, Oslo 270 per cent, and Stockholm by 290 per cent...
		The National Party of Scotland was founded in May 1928 and its first president was R. Cunningehame Graham and together with Secretary John MacCormick and Secretary Roland Muirhead they committed themselves to 'independence within the British group of nations'.
		Scotland's parliament re-opened in 1999 after a break of nearly 300 years and it is to be hoped that the arguments over the siting of the new parliament building in 1999 and 2000 are not an indication of things to come.
	www.scotlandspast.org /twenty.cfm (2581 words)

	Scottish National Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The SNP was formed in 1934 from the merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party.
		With the establishment of devolution for Scotland in 1999 the SNP has styled itself as the main opposition party to the Scottish Executive.
		However, the party's MPs who in the main represented seats won from the Conservatives were less keen to have the SNP viewed as a left-of-centre alternative to Labour, for fear of losing their seats back to the Conservatives.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Scottish-National-Party.htm (1871 words)

	BBC News \| Parties and Issues \| Socialist Labour Party (Scotland)
		The party advocates the reopening of collieries and the returning of energy utilities to public ownership so that they can be used in the "public interest".
		The party demands the "full restoration" of student grants and says they should be in line with minimum wage levels and available to all students.
		The SLP is calling for a national audit to assess the level of substance abuse and addiction in Scotland and the establishment of specialist centres to tackle the problem.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/scotland_99/parties_and_issues/319271.stm (797 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party
		We were seen as a socialist minority fighting the reformism of the labour leaders, not from outside of the labour movement, but as a component, but independent part of it.
		As we predicted it was a government of counter-reform which pushed the trade unions to the left and produced a left wing in the Labour Party around Benn.
		The boom from 1982 largely cut across these developments in the Labour Party and provided the Tories with material conditions (as well as the outcome of the Falklands war) for electoral victories in 1983 and 1987.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/main/3-3-2.htm (2682 words)

	Scotsman.com Election - Scottish Labour Party - Labour 'will lose councils' under new voting system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LABOUR'S grip on Scotland's town halls will be broken at the next council election, with the party on course to lose more than 100 councillors and control of seven authorities, according to research published yesterday.
		The Labour Party in Scotland was forced to push through STV for local-government elections by the Liberal Democrats who made it a condition of their support for the coalition Executive.
		Labour accepted the plan despite the vocal complaints of many Labour councillors who knew they were going to lose their seats as a result.
	election.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=782&id=610682005 (805 words)

	Revolution not Devolution The Scottish Assembly Where we stand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Labour Party in Scotland was falsely renamed the "Scottish Labour Party" in time for the last general election.
		Labour of course is an anti socialist party, whose biggest crime is to pretend otherwise, unlike the official Conservative and Unionist Party.
		Scotland is a rich country with a poor population with Western Europe’s worst social conditions, which stem from low and no incomes, such as, housing, health and crimes of poverty, etc, which place us unenviably at the top of Europe’s “Worst” league of tables.
	srsm.port5.com /aboutSRSM/revnotdev.html (720 words)

	Scottish National Party : SNP
		The party was founded in 1934 as the result of a merger between the National Party of Scotland (NPS) and the Scottish Party.
		The party went into a period of decline after the failure to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly[?] in 1979 and its poor peformance in the general election of that year.
		Sillars had been a Labour Party MP in the 1970s but, dissatisfied with the Labour Government's policy on Scottish devolution and their socio-economic programme, had in 1976 formed the SLP.
	www.fastload.org /sn/SNP.html (2142 words)

	House of Commons - Scottish Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
		The Scottish Labour Party administers the Labour Party in Scotland on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
		However, the party's stated view in its submission to the consultation on the size of the Scottish Parliament is that "as the Scotland Act was created out of a broad consensus, any proposed changes to the size of the composition of the Parliament should be based on a similar consensus".
		The Scottish Labour Party is however, of the view that the Scottish Parliament should retain the current number of members and therefore until a change is made we will meet the challenge the lack of coterminosity brings.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmscotaf/77/3110402.htm (370 words)

	The Scottish Labour Party
		Scotland Office Minister David Cairns said: "Behind these figures are real people and real families who will be much better off as a result of such a strong labour market.
		Richard Baker MSP said: "It was the post-war Labour Government under Clement Attlee in 1949 that established the board in its present form — and 50 years on their work remains as important as ever..."
		Scottish Labour Party Conference 2006 will be held in Aviemore Highland Resort...
	www.scottishlabour.org.uk (228 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Labour Party seeks to oust SNP defector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LABOUR last night threatened to oust Steve Cardownie from his role as Edinburgh's deputy lord provost after his defection to the Scottish National Party.
		Although Mr Cardownie is likely to lose his post as "festival tsar", which is in the gift of the Labour group, it was unclear last night whether the deputy lord provost's position, which is voted on by the whole council and is a four-year appointment, could be taken away from him.
		Labour claimed yesterday that Mr Cardownie had decided to "jump ship before he was pushed" in the re-selection process for the 2007 council elections.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=2146742005 (456 words)

	Jim Higgins: Doon in Troon (1976)
		For years the Labour Party was able to dismiss nationalism as the eccentric pursuit of minds befogged by Celtic vapours.
		Scotland, it could be said, was poor, for whatever historical reason, its industry outdated, its energy resources declining and its agriculture inadequate.
		Mr Heffer, a not inconsiderable force in the Labour Party, represents a Merseyside constituency where the problems are as great as Scotland, without benefit of oil and with a 20 per cent lower government handout.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1976/04/doontroon.htm (1476 words)

	CNN - Labour would give Scots a chance at more freedom - Apr. 23, 1997
		The Labour Party, favorite to win, promises quick moves to give more self-rule to Scotland and Wales -- moves that the Conservative Party says will mean the breakup of the union.
		Scotland has different school and legal systems from the rest of Britain, and a business climate that sometimes clashes with British ways.
		Party member George Robertson says the party looks only to giving Scots more say in domestic decision-making.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/23/britain.devolution (344 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		But the party, formed two years ago by the former Labour party firebrand Tommy Sheridan, said it expected to have consolidated itself after the poll as Scotland's fifth biggest party - after Labour, the Scottish National Party, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
		Mr Sheridan, who gained celebrity in Scotland for opposing the Conservatives' poll tax and served a prison sentence for his pains, said the party hopes to win around 100,000 votes - a tally which would provide the biggest vote to the political left of the Labour party in Scotland since 1935.
		Among the party's election policies are the renationalisation of Britain's privatised rail system, along with the gas, water and electricity industries, and the imposition of higher taxes on high earners - a rate of 50 per cent for those earning more than £50,000, rising to a top rate of 63 per cent.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT365Q2GNMC.html (767 words)

	SSP News : News from the Scottish Socialist Party
		Today the Labour Party is in the process of expelling George Galloway for his outspoken opposition to Blair’s illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq.
		The Scottish Socialist Party have condemned the Greater Glasgow NHS Board’s decision to close the Queen Mother’s Maternity Hospital in Glasgow.
		Labour was now as committed to capitalism and the free market as the Tories or Liberal Democrats, he claimed.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.info /archive/2003_10_19_newsarchive.html (1715 words)

	Scots Independence Tour - Traitors ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Politics in Scotland is effectively a two-horse race between The Labour Party and the SNP.
		The Labour Party (in pact with the Liberal Democrats) is proposing Devolution for Scotland.
		Scotland was conned in 1979 by Labour's Devolution Bill, and any bitterness between the SNP and Labour had its roots in that sorry time.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /hamish/traitor.html (650 words)

	CNN.com - McConnell poised to lead Scotland - November 17, 2001
		McConnell said he was "deeply honoured" to have won the backing of his party and vowed to do all he could to improve the lives of ordinary Scots.
		"Scotland's first minister must lead a Scottish Parliament that is worthy of the pride and confidence of the people of Scotland," McConnell said.
		"Scotland has changed for the better with the introduction of a democratic parliament, but Labour has failed to change with it, and are finding it decidedly difficult to meet the standards our new democracy demands."
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/17/scotland.leader (476 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Scottish Labour Party conference organisers had been trying all week to prevent a debate on Iraq because they know that there is massive opposition in Labour ranks to a war conducted without a second UN resolution.
		Scottish Labour is not particularly left-wing, in the conventional sense.
		Labour activists have realised their sense of loss for the party they created.
	www.sundayherald.com /print32327 (1137 words)

	New Statesman: Even the Scottish Tories Want their independence - elections, Scotland - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Scotland, there was hardly a movement between the sheets as election night dragged on and the slumbering electorate barely changed positions.
		Scotland suffered the UK apathy factor, with turnouts down by 10-15 per cent.
		Eastwood of the Scottish Conservative Party chairman, Raymond Robertson, were the death throes of the Thatcherite old guard.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4541_130/ai_76445108 (662 words)

	Free Scotland Party
		The Free Scotland Party was formed a little over a year ago, by Scottish Nationalists who felt the Scottish people should be given the opportunity to vote for a party that not only wanted to see Scotland free of the Union with England, but which also opposed the incorporating union of the EU.
		Voters in Scotland, as with voters across all of the EU, are becoming disenchanted with the EU; it is time for the SNP to detach Independence from this unpopular, bureaucratic and corrupt organisation.
		The Free Scotland Party is Europhobe, wishes the sceptics well in their endeavours and wishes nothing but ill fortune to the creeps.
	www.freescotlandparty.org /letters.htm (5823 words)

	Scotsman.com Election - Scottish Labour Party - Scotland - forward in going backwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But in Scotland, they are rising and stand almost three weeks longer than when Labour came to power.
		Labour in England promises a maximum operation wait of 18 weeks by 2008 - in Scotland, the maximum is twice that, at 36 weeks.
		That’s why English Labour’s pledge that "parents should be central to assessing school performance" has been deleted: in Scotland, nothing should disturb the power of the local authorities.
	election.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=782&id=407912005 (1242 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - Army reform could trouble Labour at poll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But ask Labour’s electoral strategists about the bigger picture and one message emerges: turnout is the key to the election.
		The Scottish National Party and the Conservatives have found common cause in defending the Scottish army structure, and both hope to reap the benefits next year.
		At least one of the redrawn Labour seats in Dundee could also be an SNP target, lying as close as it does to the Black Watch heartlands.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1422172004 (752 words)

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		In Ballieston the SNP recorded a 16% swing; in Dundee West a Labour majority of over 10,000 was slashed to 121; and in Aberdeen North a similar Labour majority crumbled to 393.
		The Scottish National Party leader, Alex Salmond, was critical about the deal and said his party is still determined to force a vote on the issue of tuition fees.
		Susan Deacon, a Labour MSP who remains to be persuaded about defecting to the SNP, took the oath to the sound of her daughter, C laire, aged 21 months, shouting "Hello" and "Mummy" from the gallery.
	www.forscotland.com /snpusa/may1999.html (2191 words)

	Scottish News Headlines - Fraud investigation
		Detectives from the Strathclyde Police force have been asked to investigate claims that the Labour Party is fraudulently raising funds by claiming to have Socialist principles.
		It is alleged that funds have been raised from party activists on the basis that the Labour Party would be pursuing the interests of the predominantly working class constituents.
		FirstFoot understands that claims that the Motherwell and Wishaw Consituency Labour Party have been using members donations to purchase overnight stays in five star hotels for "friends", are at the centre of the investigation.
	www.firstfoot.com /News/labfraud.htm (175 words)

	Alex Neil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alex Neil was born in 1951 in Patna, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
		Neil is, unsurprisingly given his background, on the left of the SNP, and is known as a fundamentalist, critical of the gradualist wing.
		He said that the reason for his decision was that senior figures in the party (such as MSP Fergus Ewing and former SNP leader Alex Salmond) had made it clear publicly that they would not work with him as leader.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Alex-Neil.htm (437 words)

	Scotsman.com Election - Scottish Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LABOUR was left clinging to power by its fingertips in Scotland's capital after a council by-election.
		LABOUR will today lose its overall majority on the City of Edinburgh Council as the deputy Lord...
		LABOUR has chosen a former tourist chief as its candidate in the Murrayfield by-election for the...
	election.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=782&id=407912005 (339 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nan had been a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who so maligned her father for his Scottish Republicanism, a Councillor for the Labour Party in Scotland, whom her father described as 'Fakirs 'and still managed to keep her integrity.
		He stood against the Labour Party in the Gorbals as an abstentionist candidate, claiming he could do more for the people of Gorbals by staying there and helping the people.
		Harry ended his days in a Church of Scotland nursing home in Glasgow and squared the circle by writing to PM Thatcher, stating that the minimum demand for the Scottish Workers was 'Devolution' and the maximum demand was a 'Scottish Workers Republic'.
	irelandsown.net /macleanmilton.html (1160 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| SCOTLAND \| Socialist Labour Party fights capitalism
		The Socialist Labour Party is fielding 12 candidates in a fight against capitalism.
		The party was formed by life president of the National Union Of Mine Workers, Arthur Scargill, in 1996 when he says Labour "abandoned any pretence of being a socialist party...
		SLP party activists denies it is fighting a lost cause.
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/scotland/newsid_1353000/1353539.stm (279 words)

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