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	Tommy Sheridan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sheridan is known as an articulate and able orator; in his period as convenor of the SSP he saw his party's representation in the Scottish Parliament increase from just himself to six members after the 2003 Election.
		At the annual conference of the SSP in early 2005 Sheridan was elected to the SSP executive.
		Sheridan comes from a well-known family of Catholic Trotskyists from Glasgow, and was a prominent member of the Militant/RSL whilst a student at Stirling University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_Sheridan (716 words)

	Tommy Sheridan resigns as SSP convenor \| The Socialist 27 November 2004
		When Tommy Sheridan insisted that he intended to deny the allegations and seek legal action, the EC passed a motion threatening to remove him as national convenor unless, by Saturday, he abandoned this strategy.
		If the EC had not given Tommy Sheridan an immediate ultimatum to drop his denial and legal action, and made it clear publicly that the right-wing tabloid allegations were an attempt to undermine the SSP and Tommy Sheridan, this situation could potentially have been avoided.
		By trying to force Tommy Sheridan to drop his preferred option before even waiting to see the press claims from the News of the World, the SSP leadership made a potentially difficult situation much worse.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2004/372/pp4.htm (827 words)

	SSP Statement
		Tommy has played an outstanding role in the development of socialist politics in Scotland over the course of two decades and has become one of the most effective party spokespersons in UK politics.
		Tommy Sheridan's track record in fighting for the cause of the working class is undisputed.
		The SSP Executive understands the pressure Tommy is under and accepts his decision to resign as national convenor and is confident that he will continue to play an important role in the continued success of the party and the movement that he played a central role in bringing to the position it is today.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org /pages/statement.html (657 words)

	erasing clouds
		Tommy pauses, the lights of the canteen reflect on the fl and white symbol of the peace he's wearing on his lapel and make it shine, then he continues, "Anti-war protests are very useful because it is vital that those people who are against war, those who believe in peace, display it.
		Tommy might be suspicious about the European Union, but he's well keen on giving a few advices to the Italian left wing politicians who are at present trying to find a long lost unity to stand up against Silvio Berlusconi's centre right wing government.
		Tommy has got his own heroes: "I think everybody has their own inspiration, sometimes it can be your mother or your father or your uncle or brother and sister.
	www.erasingclouds.com /09april.html (3179 words)

	Socialist View (Spring 05) - SSP: The battle for socialist ideas
		Tommy Sheridan was elected as a councillor in Glasgow from his prison cell when he was jailed in 1992 for defying a court order.
		Tommy Sheridan's resignation was effectively forced by the SSP Executive Committee at an emergency meeting to discuss the threat of a story appearing in Murdoch's News of the World rag about an alleged sex scandal involving Sheridan.
		Although Sheridan's resignation and how it was handled was not mentioned throughout the conference, the leadership contest provided an opportunity for delegates to vent their frustration and anger towards the leadership on its handling of the situation.
	www.socialistparty.net /pub/pages/viewspring2005/6.htm (2561 words)

	Coffeerooms Passions
		Sheridan explained that Martin’s disappearance and her family’s involvement was still a looming question.
		Sheridan stood at the back of the crowd, but Hettie aimed it right at her and she caught it.
		Sheridan was aware of this glance and stood in between Luis and Alistair.
	www.coffeerooms.com /nbc/passions/fanfic/dabbado/taxtime7.html (3343 words)

	Socialism Today - Scotland's historic election
		The effect of Tommy Sheridan's election victory on May 6 on behalf of the Scottish Socialist Party, and particularly his dramatic appearance at the 'oath-swearing' ceremony at the opening of the Scottish parliament, has had an electrifying effect on a much wider audience than those who voted for him and the SSP.
		Tommy Sheridan is to move a Bill in the Scottish parliament calling for the restoration of student maintenance grants and the abolition of tuition fees.
		The significance of Tommy Sheridan's victory is that one or two socialists, particularly a Marxist, in the parliament of a small country, five million strong, can have an effect out of proportion to the organised force that they represent at this stage.
	www.socialismtoday.org /39/scotland39.html (2810 words)

	Trident Ploughshares - Tommy Sheridan Faslane Acquittal is Step Forward, Claim Activists
		Tommy was one of the 170 people arrested at the blockade of the base last October and was on trial today in Helensburgh District Court before Justice of the Peace John Macphail.
		Tommy then submitted that there was no evidence of the alarm, distress or serious disturbance necessary to prove a charge of breach of the peace.
		As a result of the Tommy Sheridan outcome the case of Mark Rietma, 27, a social worker from Glasgow (who was facing the same charge in the afternoon) was anticipated as a test of whether the JP would maintain his new perception of the law.
	www.tridentploughshares.org /events.php3/article327 (557 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party in deep crisis
		Sheridan was recently dumped as leader by a 19 – 0 vote by the party’s executive committee apparently over his mishandling of allegations about sexual infidelity with a party member that were to be published in the News of the World.
		Sheridan strongly denied any wrong doing, but went to the press saying he was resigning for personal reasons – to spend more time with his family.
		In fact Sheridan, far from voluntarily handing in his resignation, was forced out, with some suggesting that his failure to resign would mean that the executive would put information into the public domain to force his hand.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/SSP_deep_crisis.htm (1261 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - The strife of Sheridan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		With reports claiming that Sheridan had not so much quit in order to spend more time with his pregnant wife, as was forced out by colleagues furious over the stream of allegations about his private life, the appearance of a split was confirmed.
		Sheridan himself maintained a deliberate silence, except to deny the claims, and to describe his newspaper tormentor as that "scummy rag" and to promise to face it in court.
		Sheridan made his with a clenched fist, and firebrand Rosie Kane wrote a slogan on the palm of her hand, and made a point of wearing jeans for the ceremony.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1340342004 (1878 words)

	TOMMY SHERIDAN - for news on Tommy Sheridan Click Here
		Scottish Socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan is acquitted of causing disruption at a dawn raids protest.
		Tommy Sheridan fails in a bid to force MSPs to disclose whether they have bought houses in Edinburgh under a Holyrood allowances scheme.
		Tommy Sheridan denies he quit as leader of the SSP because of rumours about his private life.
	www.newsbyname.co.uk /T/Tommy-Sheridan.php (631 words)

	‘In sacking Tommy Sheridan, the SSP are in danger of sacking themselves’ - [Sunday Herald]
		Tommy Sheridan was given a 21st century version of this no-win ducking two weeks ago.
		Sheridan denies any sexual impropriety, and appears supremely confident that his name will be cleared in the forthcoming defamation action.
		Sheridan was able to speak across the generations; to connect the shattered remnants of the working class living in today’s drug-ridden housing estates with the great socialist traditions of the industrial working class.
	www.sundayherald.com /46227 (882 words)

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		Tommy Sheridan was flown down to appear at the end of the London rally and as the 'leader' of the All Britain Anti Poll Tax Federation was pitched into the controversy surrounding the police attack on demonstrators.
		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 /texts/pubs/sa/2/sp001218.txt (1403 words)

	Review of Imagine: A Socialist Vision for the 21st Century by Tommy Sheridan and Alan McCombes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		As noted above, Sheridan and McCombe cannot "imagine" a real socialist system, one based on real workers' self-management in spite of their praise for the "socialist democracy" introduced by the CNT during the Spanish Revolution (not that the CNT and its anarchism is mentioned).
		Ironically, Sheridan and McCombe point out that the state planned coups against Labour Governments and that pressure from the IMF and big business ensured that Labour did what it was told in the 1960s and 70s (p.
		Sheridan and McCombes end by asking "What side are you on?" and present the duality of "Capitalism or socialism?" Looking at this book, the obvious answer must be "Neither." Anarchists remember what socialism is meant to be about, namely the abolition of the wages system.
	struggle.ws /anarchism/writers/anarcho/reviews/imagine.html (4617 words)

	Trident Ploughshares - Tommy Sheridan Heads for Jail on Sunday Night
		Tommy was one of the 185 people arrested at the "Crimebusters" blockade of Faslane naval base on 14th February.
		Tommy’s jail term will add to the 832 days already spent in jail during the 30 months of the Trident Ploughshares campaign.
		Tommy’s determination to follow through his confrontation of Trident is a sign of a growing understanding that civil resistance to this shameful thing in our midst is both legitimate and essential."
	www.tridentploughshares.org /article116 (318 words)

	Observer \| Tommy whacker
		Tommy Sheridan stunned colleagues and political opponents last week when he announced his decision to take his high-octane charm and permatan out of the spotlight to focus on being a husband and father.
		Tommy (it seems impolite, not to mention unnecessary to refer to him as Mr Sheridan or even Sheridan) has managed to achieve what other politicians can only dream about.
		It was revealed recently that it would be £200,000 in debt by the end of the year despite the fact that Tommy, like the five other SSP MSPs, donates half his salary to the party.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5062789-102273,00.html (683 words)

	Scottish Socialist Leader in Sex Scandal - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		They recently a announced a £200,000 debt which they can't manage, their leader Tommy Sheridan resigned for 'personal reasons' midweek and yesterday in front page A News of The World exclusive alleged Sheridan was a serial adulterer and was having an affair with a party activist and former prostitute.
		Mr Sheridan dismissed as "nonsense" claims he was forced out by his party because it feared the impact of revelations about his private life.
		Mr Sheridan’s denials came after the News of the World carried an interview with a friend of Ms McGuire, who joined the SSP in 2001, in which intimate details of their alleged relationship were revealed.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=165510 (688 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Sheridan arrested at asylum demo
		Mr Sheridan was among a group of 25 protesters who blockaded the office in Brand Street, Govan, on Monday.
		Mr Sheridan said people were being removed from their homes in "disgraceful" dawn raids with children being dragged out of bed in their night clothes and deported.
		Mr Sheridan said Scotland was a depopulated and ageing country which needed "new blood" and the authorities should be inviting people to stay instead of deporting them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/4455950.stm (534 words)

	Tommy Sheridan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		He was a leading campaigner against the poll tax in Scotland, and was jailed for trying to stop a warrant sale taking place.
		Whilst in jail Sheridan was elected a councillor to Glasgow CityCouncil to represent the Pollok ward.
		Sheridan is known as an articulate and able orator.
	www.therfcc.org /tommy-sheridan-191204.html (226 words)

	Sheridan resigns as SSP leader - Indymedia Ireland
		Mr Sheridan tendered his resignation to the party's ruling body, the national executive, and it was accepted.
		A WOMAN at the centre of the Tommy Sheridan "Sexgate" saga can be revealed today as a married activist in his party - and a fantasist.
		Sheridan, who wed Gail in 2000, insists he is not the MSP she is referring to and says he will sue anyone who says he is.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=67420 (1251 words)

	SSP News : News from the Scottish Socialist Party
		Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party MSP and National Convenor, will next week promote a war on poverty in Scotland, not against Iraq in the course of the SSP’s annual 90-minute debate slot.
		Tommy Sheridan, convener of the party, said their anti-war stance would continue right through spring no matter the turns in events in the Gulf and even if an anti-war stance became unpopular.
		Mr Sheridan said that this pledge, in common with all his party's others, could be achieved within the powers of the Scottish Parliament.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.info /archive/2003_01_19_newsarchive.html (1702 words)

	Sheridan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), English novelist and short-story writer
		Philip Henry Sheridan (1831–1888), United States Army General and the M551 Sheridan tank, named after him
		'Sheridan's' is also an alcoholic drink (coffee layered liqueur) from Tomas Sheridan and Sons, Dublin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheridan (160 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Socialists' Monty Python plan to replace Tommy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Prominent party activists have revealed that rather than replace Sheridan as leader, it is considering becoming the first party in Britain to adopt a "collective leadership" in which no one "individual" would be allowed to dominate the whole.
		Under the charismatic Sheridan, who last week quit from the post of leader, or national convener as it is known in the SSP, such a move has been out of bounds, given the Glasgow MSP’s high profile and his enormous success at the polls.
		Sheridan resigned as Socialist leader last week before it emerged he had a fling with newspaper columnist Anvar Khan a decade ago.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1315092004 (742 words)

	Tommy Sheridan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		He was a leading campaigner the poll tax in Scotland and was jailed for to stop a warrant sale taking place.
		Whilst in jail Sheridan was elected a to Glasgow City Council to represent the Pollok ward.
		Sheridan is known as an articulate and orator.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tommy_Sheridan (372 words)

	The Head Heeb: Tommy Sheridan and the Scottish Socialist Party
		In November, the Executive Committee of the Scottish Socialist Party voted to sack Tommy Sheridan as their leader.
		One possibility is a story in the News of the World alleging Sheridan had sex with a woman other than his wife (Sheridan is suing the newspaper for libel).
		That seat was held by Sheridan, and after 2007 Sheridan may again be the SSP's only MSP; it would serve them right if he then left the SSP and founded his own socialist party.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/026944.html (592 words)

	Warrant Sales Bill - International Socialist Online
		The Scottish Parliament is continuing to debate the "Abolition of Poindings and Warrant Sales Bill" proposed by Scottish Socialist Party MSP and ISM supporter Tommy Sheridan, in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 8th December.
		Tommy Sheridan: It has not happened because the Executive has done nothing in the past 12 months to produce an alternative.
		Tommy Sheridan should not lecture me. He should not put his badge of poverty on the table or tell any member off in this chamber.
	www.redflag.org.uk /scotland/warrant.html (791 words)

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