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Stunning Socialist victories in Scotland

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Scottish Socialist Party elects 6 to Parliament

Labour and Scottish National Party weakened. SSP and Greens advance. The lessons of a campaign.

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Scotland: Stunning Socialist victories in Parliamentary elections
By Peter Cambria

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – As the parliamentary elections in Scotland and the municipal (Council) elections in England and Wales held on May Day have shown, Tony Blair's Labour Party has managed to cling to power despite criticism after Blair led Britain to become the George Bush's political poodle in the Empire building war against Iraq. The Labour Party suffered heavy losses in both elections, which were characterized by low turnouts.

But in the rebel, radical and working class Scotland, the left made significant gains, with the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) gaining six seats to the Scottish parliament, as the champion of the antiwar movement, the advocate of working class issues and a staunch challenger of both imperial Labour Party and the bourgeois independentists of the Scottish National Party (SNP) by raising the need for an independent, Socialist Republic of Scotland.

The SSP final results were 117.709 votes across all Scottish constituencies or 6.2% of the total, with 89.278 votes for the regional areas or 7.5% of the total. In Glasgow the party polled an amazing 15% across the board[...]

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#	Title	Author	Date
1	Congratulations to all involved	Josef	Sat May 03, 2003 16:28
2	Good work	Eoin G	Sat May 03, 2003 21:17
3	How did my comrades fare	Eoghan Gramaisc	Sat May 03, 2003 21:58
4	other socialists in may 1st elections	sa/sp/cp	Sat May 03, 2003 22:13
5	What about the other socialists?	Fergal OB	Sat May 03, 2003 23:49
6	SSP	Khalid Farouk	Sun May 04, 2003 02:42
7	Link to SP results	Khalid	Sun May 04, 2003 02:44
8	Scottish results	mem	Sun May 04, 2003 10:58
9	No to Alliance	Hilda Robinson	Sun May 04, 2003 13:50
10	Whats Hilda On?	Curious	Sun May 04, 2003 19:24
11	new alliance	mem	Sun May 04, 2003 23:24
12	Moved by R Isible.	Frontlines Newspaper	Mon May 05, 2003 05:49
13	Have The SP taken Over The Editorial LIst?	SP Left Opposition	Mon May 05, 2003 16:08
14	Some Odd Deletions Lately	Curious	Mon May 05, 2003 16:52
15	so let me get this straight, one last time	1984	Mon May 05, 2003 19:45
16	off you head	Oh good	Mon May 05, 2003 22:48
17	Yes!	pat c	Tue May 06, 2003 10:58
18	Re: Oh good	Magneto	Tue May 06, 2003 11:29
19	Magneto - Aspiring Labour Party Hack	Pettycoat Luce	Tue May 06, 2003 13:13
20	Why	Magneto	Tue May 06, 2003 13:24
21	And	Magneto	Tue May 06, 2003 13:27
22	Sheridan got elected because he dropped the nutty trot bullshit	real worlder	Tue May 06, 2003 13:41
23	Scandinavia.	KaM	Tue May 06, 2003 15:48
24	Lets not hang Sheridan just not	Dan	Tue May 06, 2003 16:18
25	CWI To Leave SSP?	Curious	Tue May 06, 2003 17:08
26	Reformism v. Transitional Demands	RV	Tue May 06, 2003 17:25
27	i think what higgins actaully said was	just for clarification...	Tue May 06, 2003 19:33
28	Easy	KaM	Tue May 06, 2003 20:27
29	Clarification	Cato	Wed May 07, 2003 10:20
30	Virtual dumbass	Mick	Wed May 07, 2003 13:18
31	To Curious	Stephen Boyd	Thu May 08, 2003 21:10
32	'Magneto' is Paul Dillon	I know who Magneto is	Thu May 08, 2003 22:31
33	Sell out of Socialist Alternative	KG	Fri May 09, 2003 14:42
34	Paul Dillon	Durutti	Fri May 09, 2003 14:56
35	Stephen SP	Curious	Fri May 09, 2003 14:58
36	They Seek Him(?) Here, They Seek Him There...	Magneto	Fri May 09, 2003 15:37
37	exactly what i mean	Dan	Fri May 09, 2003 20:51
38	A few points	Finghin	Sat May 10, 2003 20:02
39	Come On Fin!	Durutti	Mon May 12, 2003 10:50
40	Why should we?	KaM	Tue May 13, 2003 00:53

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