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	Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Militant had a period of steady growth during the late 1960s and the 1970s.
		On this basis Militant succeeded in having three Members of Parliament In the early 1980s a broad left alliance with a large Militant contingent took over leadership of the ruling Labour group on Liverpool city council and were engaged in a struggle with the Thatcher led central government for extra funding.
		By beginning of the 1990s most of the Militant group were no longer carrying out entrist tactics and in 1991 formed themselves into a separate party, first calling themselves Militant Labour (and in Scotland, Scottish Militant Labour) and latterly in England the Socialist Party.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Militant_Tendency (717 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party fosters nationalist divisions
		Scottish Militant Labour is seeking to rise to prominence on this wave of political disorientation.
		Scottish Militant Labour insisted the new party be launched in time to stand candidates in elections to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999.
		Scottish Militant Labour are indifferent to the central task of overcoming the political influence of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois forces over the working class.
	www.wsws.org /polemics/1998/oct1998/ssp-o24.shtml (2564 words)

	The Rise of Militant: Militant Labour Launched
		SML had become the main organising force in the campaign to resist the privatisation of Scottish water and was also preparing for a mass non-payment campaign of water bills if the legislation was pushed through.
		Militant Labour pledged to stand in elections not for the sake of council or parliamentary positions, but to use election campaigns as a platform to mobilise the resistance of ordinary working people and to broaden our support.
		Militant Labour had called for a one-day stoppage in Dundee for 17 May. The potential undoubtedly existed for shutting down the factories and workplaces and for a mass turnout on the picket line.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /militant/ch50.htm (2641 words)

	The Scottish debate: In response to the statement "Initial Proposals for a New Scottish Socialist Party"
		When the Scottish National Committee (NC) members discussed with Peter, Mike and Lynn at our National Conference in Morecambe in September 1997, they told us that their position was that Scottish Militant Labour should change its name and continue to work within the Scottish Socialist Alliance.
		Whether or not there is a complete dissolution of Scottish Militant Labour, will depend partly on "the degree of political and organisational cohesion" in the new party and partly on the "outcome of negotiations with other forces." Again, it does not say what the criteria for negotiations would be.
		If Scottish Militant Labour merges into a new Scottish Socialist Party without commitment to a strong organisation of its own, as part of a federal structure, the internal position would be eroded away very rapidly.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/1998/initialresponse.htm (4464 words)

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		Militant members, the stewards of huge marches that day in Glasgow and London were appalled at what they saw as the degeneration of the massive London march, and the media's spotlight on the battle in the square at the expense of news featuring 100,000 demonstrating in London and 20,000 in Glasgow.
		Sheridan and Steve Nally, the Militant London activist who was the Secretary of 'the Fed.' were instructed by the Militant leadership, then led by Peter Taffe and the ailing Ted Grant that the riot was a 'godsend' to the Tories and would 'alienate' activists from the anti poll tax movement.
		Militant Labour elsewhere took longer to make an impact, which in Scotland, especially clydeside, was helped by Tommy Sheridan's second place to Labour in the Parliamentary Election of 1992, closely followed by his and another victory in the Pollok ward in the District Elections of the same year.
	www.spunk.org /library/pubs/sa/2/sp001218.txt (1403 words)

	The middle class radicals and devolution: Scottish Militant Labour sow national divisions
		Far from mobilising workers against capitalism, the SML is diverting opposition to the destruction of jobs and social conditions into support for a wing of the ruling class and the Labour and trade union bureaucracy.
		Militant's conversion to Scottish nationalism is the outcome of the long political evolution of this tendency.
		SML now reject the first option, "increasingly, because of the weakness of socialism on an all-Britain scale at this stage, and the momentum towards independence in Scotland, the second route is more likely", McCombes states.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /iw/242/12a242.shtml (2389 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The controversy in the Socialist Party (SP), concerns the proposition made by Scottish Militant Labour (SML), that under today’s conditions, with the present development of the Scottish Socialist Alliances, a new mass workers party to the left of Labour is both needed and can be built ("a small mass workers’ party").
		SML argues that, after several years of political difficulties the decision to launch the SSA as a campaigning and electoral alliance is vindicated.
		What is certain about the Scottish debate, is that the establishment of a genuinely broad-based small mass party with a revolutionary current integrated into its leadership, and which adopted a developed Action Programme at its founding conference, would be a significant step forward for the Scottish working class.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/16scotland.html (3461 words)

	The Scottish debate: In Defence of the Revolutionary Party
		The Scottish Militant Labour EC comrades accuse us of "bare-faced scaremongering" (120), but the whole emphasis of the Initial Proposals document was on the problems of raising the question of Scottish Socialist Party affiliation to the Committee for a Workers’ International, without any clear proposals for overcoming the problems.
		The Scottish Militant Labour EC comrades reject as "formalistic" our point that the problem of securing agreement for Committee for a Workers’ International affiliation "precisely points to the underlying political differences that still exist." (121) But the Scottish Militant Labour EC comrades’ arguments are somewhat contradictory on this point.
		The Scottish Militant Labour EC document also states: "Here in Britain our organisation evolved independently of any international organisation, particularly in the period 1964 to 1974, the year that the Committee for a Workers’ International was formed." (137) This is true, but it is not the whole truth.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/1998/defence3.htm (4131 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a (Those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare) left wing party which campaigns for a (An advocate of Marxism) Marxist economic platform and (Click link for more info and facts about Scottish independence) Scottish independence.
		Again, Militant Labour served as the driving force, and in 1998 it was agreed to form the SSP.
		Nonetheless the elections to the Scottish Parliament went better than many expected, with Sheridan gaining election as a representive of (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scottish_socialist_party.htm (1183 words)

	The Rise of Militant: Expelled... Into The Movement
		Scottish Militant supporters showed in the anti-poll tax struggle how nationalism can be cut across by vigorously campaigning on the class issues.
		Scottish Militant had decided, with the enthusiastic support of the national Militant Editorial Board and a national conference of supporters, to stand Tommy Sheridan, the leader of the Scottish anti-poll tax movement, as a candidate in Glasgow Pollok.
		The organising of this conference, initiated by Militant supporters as a campaign to secure the release of women like Sara Thornton, jailed for murdering her violent partner, answered those who have argued that Militant ignored the problems of women.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /militant/ch46.htm (3396 words)

	Socialist Solidarity Network - Articles
		The Scottish leadership of Militant were the first on the far left to see the potential of the non-payment campaign; it put the Scottish organisation on the map, particularly through the role of Tommy Sheridan as the best known leader of the whole movement.
		In fact the Militant scenario was one variant, one theoretical possibility in the curve of development, but justified in a way which didn't take account of the profound changes in the relationship between the social democratic parties and the mass of the working class which has taken place since the 1930s.
		Militant's self-identity was that of the Marxist tendency, excluding all others from that label, an absurd proposition at the end of the 20th century.
	www.socialistsolidarity.com /docs_mil_ph.htm (6728 words)

	ipedia.com: Militant Tendency Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Militant had a period of steady growth and splits throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s.
		The strong links between the Militant base of Liverpool and Northern Ireland also ensured that the Labour Party of Northern Ireland (which was not linked to the mainland Labour Party) was strongly influenced by Militant.
		Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press.
	www.ipedia.com /militant_tendency.html (514 words)

	Articles - Militant Tendency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Militant, who claimed to be nothing more than readers of a newspaper, were alleged to be members of a Leninist political party, with an elected central committee and an internal regime based on democratic centralism.
		Militant reacted by standing Lesley Mahmood as a candidate against Kilfoyle in a 1991 parliamentary by-election, giving the Labour Party the opportunity to identify and expel a wider range of Militant members.
		By the beginning of the 1990s Labour policy was so far removed from its former socialist content that in 1991 the millitant Tendency felt the need to form themselves into a separate party, first calling themselves Militant Labour (and in Scotland, Scottish Militant Labour) and latterly in England the Socialist Party.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Militant_Tendency (847 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party - The rise of a new socialist party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Scottish National Party, a bourgeois nationalist party with a petit-bourgeois leadership and a popular base, was trying, with some success, to develop a left wing profile to attract the votes of disappointed Labour voters.
		Alan McCombes, in the name of SML, publicly launched the idea of an electoral bloc, a Socialist Alliance, to contest the first elections for the Scottish Parliament, a perspective which was gaining credence given the universally expected victory of the LP in the next legislative elections.
		The later is ahead of Labour in the polls and split between the need to be seen as to the left of Labour and as a viable manager of the interests of big capital in an independent Scotland.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/35ssp.html (3150 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party
		It is already one of the strongest parties of the left in Europe, with six members of the Scottish Parliament, thousands of individual members, and a network of scores of branches stretching from the Northern Isles to the English border.
		The Scottish Socialist Party is a part of the Scottish Free School Meals Campaign along with CPAG Scotland, One Plus, Poverty Alliance, Scottish Youth Parliament, UNISON, EIS, SSTA, BMA, STUC Women's Committee, Scottish Local Government Forum against Poverty, Members of the Scottish Churches Social Inclusion Network, Dundee Anti-Poverty Forum.
		In the Scottish Parliament SSP MSP's have been fighting to hold the health boards and the Scottish Executive to account for their actions.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org (893 words)

	Glasgow Pollok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian Davidson, Labour MP for Glasgow Pollok, after being rejected as a Labour Scottish parliament candidate by Rosemary McKenna's Network cabal, 14 th June 1998.
		Labour's James White regained Pollok for Labour in the 1970 general election.
		Ian Davidson was one of the few Labour MPs who wished to stand for Holyrood and there was a scandal when he was rejected, along with Falkirk MPs Michael Connarty and Dennis Canavan by Rosemary McKenna's Network cabal in favour of more suitable candidates like Mrs McKenna's own daughter.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot99constit/g07.html (761 words)

	Democracy not stooges in Iraq / Time for a broad socialist party in England
		Time for a broad socialist party in England I was the only member of the Socialist Party (formerly Militant) from England or Wales who spoke in support of the setting up of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) at the 1998 European School of the CWI (to which the Socialist Party is affiliated).
		Scottish Militant Labour (SML) had done most of its activities in the name of the Scottish Socialist Alliance, breaking down years of mistrust between socialist organisations.
		SML became a ‘platform’ of the SSP, called the International Socialist Movement, when the Alliance was transformed into a party.
	gaffa.org /pipermail/love-hounds/2004-June/023000.html (740 words)

	Ex-Stalinist Jimmy Reid supports Scottish Socialist Party
		The SSP was recently formed by the Scottish Militant Labour group as a reformist alliance of middle class radicals, Stalinists and Scottish nationalists.
		This was not yet the Scottish Socialist Party, because Reid remained concerned that "in the background lurks a Trotskyist cell seeking to pull the strings".
		Kerr explained that he had opposed the Militant when they were in the Labour Party, although he opposed their expulsion, but he had joined the SSP "because it is a much broader group than Scottish Militant Labour.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/dec1998/reid-d01.shtml (1679 words)

	An exchange on the nationalism of the Scottish Socialist Party
		The SML argued that its standing in Scotland meant that continued affiliation to the CWI was no longer necessary, and that the more militant and politically advanced Scottish working class should not be forced to wait on their more backward and conservative brothers and sisters south of the border.
		Scottish Militant Labour, and Tommy Sheridan in particular, first achieved political prominence as a result of their role in the leadership of the anti-Poll Tax campaign.
		It means building political alliances with sections of the SNP and Labour and trade union bureaucrats on a perspective that is explicitly opposed to socialism and attributes all of Scotland’s woes to the continued existence of the monarchy.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/apr2005/ssp2-a25.shtml (3507 words)

	Growing levels of poverty in Scotland
		The report was produced by the Scottish Council Federation, a think-tank incorporating major corporations such as British Telecom, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Airports, together with representatives of the trade unions.
		The three "nations" cited in the report are "the Excluded," the "Insecure," and the "Settled." The first consists of unemployed and part-time workers, disabled people, families and single parents on benefit living in large, disintegrating housing schemes.
		This was promoted by the Scottish Labour Party, the trade unions, the Scottish National Party and Scottish Militant Labour as a vehicle through which working people could secure social reforms and create greater social equality.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/mar1998/scot-m04.shtml (1066 words)

	Scottish Militant Labour -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A strictly (Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution) Trotskyist organisation, its leading member was (Click link for more info and facts about Tommy Sheridan) Tommy Sheridan.
		The party was successful in winning a number of council seats in (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow in the 1995 unitary authority elections.
		In 1996 it led the formation of the (Click link for more info and facts about Scottish Socialist Alliance) Scottish Socialist Alliance, the precursor of the modern (Click link for more info and facts about Scottish Socialist Party) Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), formed in 1998.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sc/Scottish_Militant_Labour.htm (142 words)

	Socialism and Conspiracies
		It had three Labour MPs, led the Liverpool council struggle (which inflicted the first defeat on Thatcher in winning extra money for the city, but was ultimately defeated due to the betrayals of councillors elsewhere) and led the poll tax non-payment campaign which defeated the tax and led to the fall of Thatcher.
		Militant made some bad mistakes, which were sometimes (at least) largely caused by state infiltration, and were very costly in terms of recruitment.
		The Scottish comrades were proposing the setting up of the Scottish Socialist Party which they would become a faction of (called a ‘platform').
	talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.books.h-g-wells/messages/2964.html (2060 words)

	Scottish Militant Labour outlines its views
		Scottish Militant Labour was formed as a political party in February 1992.
		So we formed Scottish Militant Labour as a radical socialist alternative to a right-wing Labour Party and a nationalist SNP [Scottish Nationalist Party].
		We lost because the Labour vote had recovered, as the Tories were in a disastrous position.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/185/185p19.htm (1778 words)

	Labour Left Briefing - LP 1 - April '97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		What is now being called "Red Monday" was a day of shame for the Labour councillors willing to sneak past their constituents and employees to break manifesto pledges of no compulsory redundancies and maintenance of Council services.
		Gordon Brown has already made it clear that Labour will stick to the Tories' public spending limits for at least two years, and to meet the Maastricht convergence criteria this is essential.
		The difference will be that a massive mobilisation of the labour movement, particularly the public sector trade unions, has at least the potential to influence a Labour government.
	www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1997/april/lp1.html (575 words)

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