Solidarity forever - Tommy Sheridan October 2006 Red Pepper

Tommy Sheridan says he wants to build a different kind of organisation, not continue to fight internal battles in the SSP.

"The splitting of the Scottish Socialist Party is a sad but necessary stage in the development of socialism in Scotland. We in Solidarity, Scotland’s Socialist Movement, have decided not to continue to engage in tearing lumps out of each other in the SSP and have focused instead on building a broader socialist movement, which can reach and mobilise working people in Scotland. My only comment on my case is that when there is a battle between the most reactionary anti-socialist rag in the Murdoch press and a leading socialist, the members of the SSP executive who gave evidence to help the News of the World (against the decision of the SSP national council) were found wanting.

....In contrast, the launch rally of Solidarity was filled with outwardlooking speeches fuelled by socialist passion and not rancour. It was also attended by 600 people, twice the number at the SSP rally the day before, and was very representative of the Scotland we want to appeal to."

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Pic of Tommy with GG at Faslane ... curious how the Socialists in the New Labour Party don't want to talk about Trident, it's replacement by the US at UK expense and the inherent and implicit belief in nuclear war.