An appeal to Labour Party Members

 Scottish Socialists have appealed to Labour Party members who oppose the direction of travel of the Labour Party.

• Use your energy, passion, and commitment in the battle for real change, not an endless faction fight.
• Help build the real alternative to neoliberal independence: an independent, socialist Scotland, not dogmatic and self-destructive Unionism.
• Win a socialist programme for Scotland: a Socialist Recovery Plan for real change, not more of the same.
• Send Keir Starmer an emphatic message that he can’t ignore.

 

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There will be people who continue to fight in the Labour Party although Sir Keir Starmer wants it to become another capitalist party. They will resist this. They will be expelled for their pains and accused of anti-semitism into the bargain.

Of course building a party of the working class will not be a walk in the park. 

The ILP gained 40,056 votes in 1895. In  percentage terms that is 1.1% of the vote

The Labour Party gained 62,698 votes in 1900. That was 1.4 percent of the vote. According to Wikipedia, "total expenses for the election only came to £33. Only 15 candidatures were sponsored, but two were successful: Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby."

Remember that when anyone sneers at the results achieved by the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition.

Say not the struggle nought availeth.

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