Allan Green, the national secretary of the SSP, gave greetings to the conference and ists. sation. political force if it had remained as a looser alliance, he stressed. representation and the functioning of the different political platforms' within the party. SSP should be aiming to dissolve itself into an all British Socialist Party stayed behind to speak at a meeting organised by Socialist Resistance. Allan's introduction and answers to a range of questions were informative and full of lessons for English socialAllan's outline of the SSP's evolution, its impact and its functioning showed just how fa removed the SSP leadership's vision and methods are from many of those supporting 'the Workers Party campaign' resolution at the SA conference. Allan talked about the way confidence was built up between the key players that formed the Scottish Socialist Alliance through joint work in the mass campaign against the poll tax and then over water privati
He graphically demonstrated that the SSP could not have advanced in the way it has without its foundation as a party. The SSP would not have won its "credibility as a serious
Questions included the SSP's rural programme, the impact of 50 per cent women's
A contribution from a CB member was the only dissonant note. She argued that the
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John Bulaitis
The advance of the Scottish Socialist truly historic. Fighting on an poll tax movement. Equally significant is the past role of Scottish Militant Labour (SML), now the International Socialist Movement (ISM), the largest political component of the SSP alternative to the left of New Labour, two single group could achieve the task on its own, which posed the question of socialist unity, and secondly, that a clear and credible questions had to be tackled. Firstly, that no tance June 2003 9