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Stunning Socialist victories in Scotland

Frontlines Newspaper | 03.05.2003 02:18

Scottish Socialist Party elects fraction to Parliament. Increase its vote. Greens fared well. The lessons we may learn from it. First of all, it was good for the SSP to get rid of the British SP/CWI

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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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