There is a fundamental contradiction in the political positions held by George Galloway.
His resistance to the policies of the British State in the Middle East and his principled opposition to the war in Iraq has been invaluable to the anti war movement and cost him his membership of the Labour Party.
Yet George is amongst the most vocal supporters within Scotland of Britain as a unified state.
He is vigorous in his opposition to a separate independent George Galloway
When he uses the columns of the Sunday Mail to attack the Scottish Socialist Party and to suggest that Respect should stand in Scotland in opposition to the SSP then he puts himself in the position of defending a unified British state, otherwise why should he want to stand against the SSP?
The Scottish Socialist Party of course stands for an Independent Scottish Socialist Republic.
The break up the British state can only help the fight for internationalism and socialism: the British war machine starts to break up and a nuclear free Scotland becomes a possibility.
The political repercussions in England from such an advancement in the class struggle can only be good for socialists.
The whole Westminster establishment, royalty and class rule becomes weakened.
Bureaucracy has been a critical problem in building socialist and democratic working class organisations, especially since the time of the the second international and the building of mass
Again George Galloway and the Scottish Socialist Party are in disagreement.
The SSP has a policy of its elected representatives living on a skilled workers wage and their members elected to the Scottish Parliament adhere to this. George SOON Galloway opposes such a policy and has been influential in stopping Respect accepting such