Stunning Socialist victories in Scotland

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday May 03, 2003 03:24 by Frontlines Newspaper - Left Party alternative at sbcglobal dot net

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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