The solidarity from Nigg Bay workers with the Redpath, Dorman Long strikers was not sufficient to prevent their sacking The STUC bears the responsibility for the defeat, part and parcel of their complete acquiescence to the Social Contract. notion of the SLP posturing as a mass alternative to the old Labour Party is utopian. The electoralism of the reformist leadership of the SLP looks increasingly tarnished. Unfortunately they seemed to have learned little from experience.
Document The National Organising Committee's document released to the press, Jobs and Industry, is Parliamentarian through and through. The proposals in the document are based on "joint consultation" between workers and management with a veritable flood of planning boards and new machinery of government". - essentially the sort of timid reformism peddled by the Tribune group for decades, applied to the specific Scottish context. The logic of the leadership's position is away from the Cumbernauld drivers, away from the Personna workers and away from a dynamic, growing SLP. Scottish workers will see little point in supporting a very small reformist Labour Party, when a much larger and more powerful one still exists. JIMS LLARSMI mism has been the witch-hunt and red-baiting well known to socialists in the old Labour Party. "Extremists" have been ceremonially denounced and clumsily excommunicated. Jim Sillars feels free to publicly dissociate the SLP leadership resolutions ZUD for debate at the party's first conference.
At this first conference all these questions will be up for debate. The future direction of the SLP will be in the hands of the membership. If successful, by Sunday night when they walk the five hundred yards from the Hotel to the rail station in Stirling, the delegates can have ensured that the