SWP AND SP ELECTION ALLIANCE

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday September 12, 2002 00:05 by HS - SP

Whats all the fuss about?

I am putting up this post because of a recurring theme on Indymedia. That is that the election was a disater for the left because the SP refused to set up an alliance with the SWP. This is a nonsense for the following reasons. 1 All candidates who did work in their area over a number of years got credible results. Including Richard Boyd Barrett of the SWP. The SP as policiy only put up candidates who put in the work first. 2 The SWP and Sp did not clash anywhere, the posters were almost identical and the majority of people outside leftie land would not have spotted the difference. So for all intents and purposes we did stand under the same name. 3 The Sp are still not percieved as a party by most of the public most of our votes come because of the work the candidates did rather