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	Scottish Socialist Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scottish Socialist Alliance (SSA) was a coalition of left-wing bodies in Scotland which existed from 1996 to 1998, and was the forerunner of the Scottish Socialist Party.
		The forces who went on to form the SSA had talks with Scargill where they said that they were prepared to join his party if he accepted some degree of Scottish autonomy, when he refused they formed the SSA.
		Generally most people in the SSA felt that the experience had been enough of a success to go on to form the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), with Tommy Sheridan as its convenor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Alliance (401 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish Militant Labour (which had itself formed out of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency in the early 1990s) drove the formation of the SSA.
		The SSA performed fairly well in the sixteen seats they contested in the 1997 general election and this prompted moves to formalise the alliance into a new political party.
		The Socialist Alliance had links with the SSP, but failed to make a similar significant electoral breakthrough south of the border, largely due to the fact that election to the British Parliament does not use proportional representation, whereas the Scottish Parliament does.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Party (876 words)

	Encyclopedia: Scottish Socialist Party
		Tommy Sheridan Tommy Sheridan is a Scottish socialist politician.
		The Scottish Parliament (PÃ rlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland.
		Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party (1) The Scottish Parliament (PÃ rlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scottish-Socialist-Party (3502 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party fosters nationalist divisions
		The Scottish Socialist Party is conceived as a means of capitalising electorally on the growing discontent with the Labour government.
		Scottish Militant Labour is seeking to rise to prominence on this wave of political disorientation.
		Socialist Party leader Peter Taaffe is reduced to arguing against the effective liquidation of Scottish Militant Labour solely from the standpoint of organisational integrity and finance.
	www.wsws.org /polemics/1998/oct1998/ssp-o24.shtml (2564 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Last year the SSA won a respectable 19% in a Glasgow city council by-election, but this was achieved by activists descending on the ward from across the city, enabling a canvass and knock-up of much of the ward, not possible when resources were spread much more thinly.
		SSA conference voted overwhelmingly to call for a double "For" in the referendum in September, but only voted narrowly to participate in the campaign set up by the Labour Party, "Scotland Forward".
		The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) has not engaged the SSA in a head-on confrontation but has established some niches of its own, in Motherwell where it has a base in the RMT, and in the former coal-mining area of Ayrshire and Fife.
	ito.gn.apc.org /Scot.htm (540 words)

	The Scottish debate: Ireland
		Scottish Socialist Party members were unaware of the differences between our programme and the policy adopted.
		Rather it is praised as a "class analysis and a socialist programme." Alongside this praise there is repeated implicit and sometimes explicit criticism of the programme of the Irish section and the Committee for a Workers’ International.
		At the English and Welsh Socialist Party National Committee meeting on 14th May 2000 she stated; "In Ireland we've got the Socialist Party, we've got our own organisation, and there is potential for the Socialist Party in Ireland to develop the position that the NSSP developed in Sri Lanka, i.e.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/aug2000/CWI/8.htm (3449 words)

	The Scottish debate: For a Bold Step Forward (continued)
		From a purely electoral standpoint, we could easily live with the continuation of the Alliance in its present form, or for that matter with a cosmetic change whereby the Scottish Socialist Alliance changed its name to the Scottish Socialist Party, and everything else carried on as before.
		The Scottish Socialist Party would then be in a strong position to demand negotiations with the aim of securing an electoral coalition or pact.
		For example, the existing programme and policies of the Alliance will almost certainly be accepted as the political basis of a new Scottish Socialist Party - although we will probably want to insist on a more clear cut policy on socialist independence, given the increasing intensity of the national question.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/1998/bold2.htm (4983 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 commited to abolishing the council tax and replacing it with an income based alternative that takes into account your ability to pay.
		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.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org (893 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.
		It is claimed that the new party, like the Scottish Socialist Alliance, would be based on "a very clear and concrete programme for the overthrow of capitalism and the building of a new socialist Scotland with an internationalist perspective".
		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)

	Pollokshaws Road SSP regular activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Scottish Socialist Party is part of this new movement for global socialism.
		Our long-term vision is of a socialist world: a world without hunger and without war, a world in which the wealth of our planet is shared by the people of our planet.
		Before the Scottish Parliament was established, all the key decisions on health, education, transport, the environment, local government and other public services were taken behind closed doors by a single individual appointed by and accountable to the Prime Minister in London.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /PollSsp/independence.htm (1988 words)

	frontline 3
		The Socialist Party seemed to be in favour of the idea at the start, but after a few months began to draw back in favour of a strategy of building a small mass Marxist party, while its relationship with the Socialist Alliances became increasingly platonic in most areas.
		The SSP was only established as a viable party because the membership of the Scottish Socialist Alliance and especially of Scottish Militant Labour ' the biggest component part of the SSA ' chose to launch the SSP in the teeth of intense opposition from socialists in England.
		If socialists in Scotland had not gone it alone, formed their own organisations, taken their own decisions, the Left in Scotland would not have made the advances it has, because the SSP would not have been launched.
	www.redflag.org.uk /frontline/three/03interview.html (3156 words)

	SSP News : News from the Scottish Socialist Party
		Scottish Socialist Party MSP Rosie Kane today called for a change in working practises to tackle the 'stress epidemic' and end the stigma of mental ill health, as research by the 'See Me' campaign revealed that mental illness was the most common reason for taking time off work.
		Carolyn Leckie, Scottish Socialist Party MSP for Central Scotland and health spokesperson, today said there were many unanswered questions about the plans to centralise acute services that NHS Lanarkshire are currently putting out to public consultation.
		The Scotsman: "Alan McCoombes, a policy co-ordinator for the Scottish Socialist Party, said: 'If there are irregularities and abuses of the system and he doesn't go down the same road as Henry McLeish, then the Scottish Conservative Party will continue its demise at an even faster speed than it already has been doing.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.info (1793 words)

	An exchange on the nationalism of the Scottish Socialist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The appraisal we have made of the Scottish Socialist Party is a political one, far removed from the sectarian hurling of epithets.
		The Scottish Socialist Party has succeeded in winning considerable support, thanks to popular opposition to the Blair government, which has pursued policies in no way different to the policies of the Conservatives it replaced, and as a result of the equally right-wing trajectory of the Scottish National Party.
		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)

	Weekly Worker 129 Thursday February 8 1996
		But left reformists of this type do not have “clear socialist records”. Whatever their rhetoric, they are members of a party that has attacked and will attack the working class, a party that supports the British state and has run capitalism just as ferociously as the Tories - the Labour Party.
		The great significance of the SSA in Scotland and the Socialist Labour Party initiative in the rest of the country is that comrades who consider themselves leftists, socialists and revolutionaries have made a break with Labour.
		The revolutionary socialists had not fought for a centralised revolutionary party in the previous period: the German party was only formed when the revolution was actually in retreat.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/129/ssa.html (1320 words)

	Socialist Resistance - Issue 00 - October 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Before the launch of the SSP, socialist organisations, including the SSA, Scottish Militant Labour, and the Socialist Workers Party tended to be concentrated almost exclusively in urban Scotland, especially in the main cities.
		The Scottish Socialist Voice’s coverage of the war in Afghanistan and its more recent coverage of the threatened war in Iraq stands comparison with any socialist paper in the world.
		Especially after the Scottish elections next May, the SSP may be in a strong position to play a major part in international mobilisations.
	www.isg-fi.org.uk /resistance/sr0/sr0005.htm (2503 words)

	Weekly Worker 130 Thursday February 15 1996
		It has tied generations of workers and socialists to the cruel illusion that Labour could be a vehicle for revolutionary change, that it could be ‘transformed’ for socialism.
		The SSA is an expression of the fact that there is an overwhelming desire for working class unity in the fight against capitalism.
		The next meeting of the SSA on April 20 will have the character more of a working conference, which is a step forward.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/130/ssa.html (771 words)

	What sort of socialist alliance
		Socialists in the Labour Party have been marginalised and the electoral revolt against Blair that took place in the London elections, in which Labor breakaway Ken Livingstone was elected mayor as an independent and the London Socialist Alliance won about 3 per cent in the boroughs.
		The DSP's past attempts at regroupment, such as the Socialist Alliance with the SPA, and its attempt to join the remnants of the Communist Party of Australia in a New Left Party, were both stillborn.
		The real ideological task facing socialists right now is to prepare ourselves for the kind of demands that will have to be placed on this government, and for the kind of broadly based Labor movement and social movement agitation that will be necessary to back up these demands.
	members.optusnet.com.au /spainter/Socalliance.html (6730 words)

	ipedia.com: Scottish Socialist Party Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a left wing party led by Tommy Sheridan and Alan MacCombes.
		The SSA's formation was driven by Scottish Militant Labour (which had itself formed out of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency in the early 1990s).
		Their success since formation certainly played a major part in the formation of the Socialist Alliance in England which has links with the SSP, but has not yet been able to make a similar significant breakthrough south of the border.
	www.ipedia.com /scottish_socialist_party.html (698 words)

	Scottish Socialist Alliance plans campaigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		National secretary of the alliance ALLAN GREEN explains why socialists in Scotland are beginning to turn their backs on Labour and the Scottish National Party in favour of this new fighting force.
		Socialists in Scotland have for some time been patiently developing unity in action in order to build a credible alternative to the stale consensus and failed policies of Westminster politics.
		The Scottish Socialist Alliance was launched, bringing together people disillusioned with New Labour and the SNP -- including the ex-Labour leaders of Dumbarton and Dundee Councils, and the convenor of the SNP in Edinburgh.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1997/264/264p21.htm (1187 words)

	For a Democratic Socialist Alliance with a Revolutionary Platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The "Socialist Unity Conference" in Birmingham on Saturday the 12th of March, which I'll be much more likely to be able to attend without going AWOL, is likely to be more important in terms of decision making than tomorrow's SA conference.
		For example, the South Manchester Socialist Alliance had a committee which met a week before each Alliance meeting, and resolutions had to be submitted to the committee, with a seconder as well as a proposer, if they were to be discussed at the meeting.
		We believe that: 1) The refusal of SWP leaders to propose Socialist Alliance speakers at important events, particularly the two-million strong anti-war demonstration in London, were largely responsible for the failure of the Socialist Alliances to take off.
	gaffa.org /pipermail/love-hounds/2005-February/023445.html (1148 words)

	The Australian Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The key step in the formation of the Scottish Socialist Party was the courageous decision by Scottish Militant Labour (the main component in the Scottish Socialist Alliance) to dissolve and place its resources at the disposal of the new party.
		These have been invaluable in giving the Alliance profile on the issues of the day but they are no substitute for a regular paper putting a comprehensive Alliance position and building its presence in all sectors of the population.
		The existing Socialist Alliance 'apparatus' is struggling to maintain the basics of membership records and finances, let alone responding in a timely way to national and international political issues.
	www.movementsforsocialism.com /archive/australia.html (2250 words)

	Scottish Socialist Alliance founded - LLB May '96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Allan Green, convenor of the Scottish Socialist Alliance argues for a new regroupment of the left in Scotland.
		The SSA is for radical democratic socialism, for Scottish self-determination and for a political pluralism that respects the coming together of different viewpoints and traditions.
		The SSA is aware that it is made up of socialists from diverse backgrounds but we believe that this will be a source of strength rather than confusion.
	www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1996/may/lp2.html (515 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party Constitution
		The SSP will campaign for an independent socialist Scotland with the aim of establishing a Scottish socialist republic in a broader alliance of democratic socialist states.
		The SSP stands ultimately for a new socialist world, where poverty, starvation, environmental destruction, exploitation, war and racial hatred are eradicated.
		The committee will consist of the Youth Organiser, the Student Co-ordinator, five members elected by the annual meeting/conference of Scottish Socialist Youth, and the five members elected by the national meeting/conference of the SSP's student groups.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org /pages/constitution.html (4950 words)

	Towards a Scottish Socialist Alliance - LLB March '96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The SSA would be based on Scottish autonomy and would aim to unite socialists under a common banner.
		The SSA is the result of years of patient discussion, joint campaigning and emerging unity among significant sections of the Labour left, left nationalists, Communists, Scottish Militant Labour, environmentalists, trade unionists, anti-motorway protesters and animal rights activists.
		The SSA approach is already established successfully in much of Europe - United Left (Spain), the Left Wing Alliance (Finland), the Green Left (Netherlands) and the RCP (Italy).
	www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1996/march/lp4.html (430 words)

	Socialist Alliance formed in Scotland
		It's a realignment that presents socialists in Scotland and internationally with a historic task to build an effective, organised, popular campaign for socialism.
		Allan Green from the Scottish Socialist Movement observed, "In Scotland Labour are more and more seen as part of the establishment.
		He pointed out that the SAA's attitude to Arthur Scargill's newly formed Socialist Labour Party was one of welcoming the initiative, but disappointment at the exclusivity of its constitution (no parties or organisations can affiliate, and everyone has to be a member of a trade union).
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1996/221/221p23.htm (863 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party democratises its party structures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The constitution being reviewed was, with only minor amendments, that adopted when the Scottish Socialist Alliance was formed.
		It carries the timetable for selection for the Scottish parliament, reports from regions and on Youth work and a member’s diary.
		The "Aims and Principles" are broadly unchanged with five broad aims: socialist transformation of society; campaigning and solidarity; opposing discrimination; an independent socialist Scotland; international solidarity.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/56ssp1.htm (1415 words)

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