Highland lairds.
and retorism.
the that SNP: generadoo of cent Labour in is only showed a Labour strengthened by significant voters Nation- have turned their campaign to having drawn setbacks.
t00 weak and attacked Cal- in fighting for in municipal were reduced to Edinburgh lawyers and the : new dead. recession the Scottish working class has returned to what it knows best fortress Labour with its paternalism the Paradoxically, this revival has not strengtened the Labour left. True, the old guard bureaucrats were ousted in the mid '70s by the Scottish unions, pace: having Tarled to stem the rise of the But they were replaced by a new bureaucrats* who, though mindful of supporting the union hierarchies against the 5 per limit are machine politicius rather than left militants.
The left is not well organised. The Tribunites are on the wane and the Bennite Labour Coordinating Comgetting off the ground, For the most part, there are informal coalitions of left militants controlling local party machines.
The Labour pro-Assembly forces, the епіту of part of the decaying Scottish Labour Party breakaway, attention to the against the cuts. Devolution is a forgotten issue. The current leadership of the SNP poses no threat, no lessons from The SNP left-wing Group 79, which held its founding conference on 18 August, is too ideologically confused to make any difference. However the national question is not The very victory of the Party in Scotland will range it against Thatcher on Comments such as. 'this is the worst election ever for the Union' were flying freely in May. The economy is set to move at a different while unemployment England in August, it continued to worsen north of the border. It has not gone unnoticed that three of the four shipyards scheduled to be axed are in Scotland.
The future of the Labour Party in Scotland will ultimately depend on the direction of the mass struggles Tory governmert.
Scottish working class voted in droves for Labour as a bulwark Labour Thatcher. But • Scottish founded on reformist wheeling and dealing, V11 SLUREICS The first signs of the end of the honeymoon are already apparent in the campaign against fell in expenditure tuLS Lotnian Labour Partv nas called a public demonstration against the cats for september, the right-wing Strathclyde Labour councillors are demanding that Labour-controlled Lothian carry the bulk of commón front against the Tories will not look so secure when it comes to The choosing the method of struggle