portics 25-minute film contains several excellent interviews. One of the most striking is the interview with a West Indian catering staff worker who explains how occupation ollars was the only way to defend the A shop steward from the Royal Free Hospital also makes a strong case for a united fightback by health This film is not a wash-out by for. any means, it just doesn t work a a documentary. EGA Stays OK, if accompanied by a speaker, could OSCUS sion to ensure marine weaknesse of the EGA occupation will not be repeated in anv future action b This view was the discussion public sector It is now over a year since the formation of the Scottish Labour Party. Jim Sillars MP was the individual who captured the headlines, but socialists from many sections of the labour movement were attracted to the prospect of a new start in Scottish working class The story of how Sillars killed these hopes is now one of the more unsavoury parts or working class history. At the 1976 Stirling conference of the SLP a vicious anti-communist witch-hunt led to expelling half the active Although branches throughout Scotland were flun out of the SLP the result was the opposite to the demoralisation and dispersal of the left Sillars and his friends in the media had hoped Since the expulsions the left wing has been involved in a series of well organised campaign activities. In November a rally was held on the cuts which attracted ap- May, proximately a hundred trade unionists. The left wing of the SLP Threw us resources into Duncans the actions called by the Scottish anne same monus and te strike in March organised by the National Unior of Public Employees the second conterpnee of th weekend of 19/20 March, was an opportunity to assess these experibuilding the organisation. gates were wammous tnat ine or ganisation had politically matured Tron me conson are TerosI of social democracy, towards the politics of revolutionary Marxism.
Recognising this, the organisation decided to begin a period oi joint collaboration with the Fourth The conference went on to realfirm a clear commitment to ai elected Scottish Assembly, and to campaign in the labour movement against the bankruptey of both the Scottish Nationalist Party and the Labour Government. It decided t make the women's rights rally to be held in Glasgow on 7 May a major priority.
on ne electora rone me con ference made the important deciDistrict Councils of Glasgow, Pol lack. Edinburgh and Aberdeen in under the newly adopted title of the Scottish Socialist League.
Finally the conference committed the organisation to fighting for the fusion and regroupment of all revolutionary socialists, a process already begun in that the National Committee of the anclude sunporters of both Red
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