tence of an SP weekly paper - Scottish Socialist Voice. As a result, the SSP has seen an influx of hundreds of young people from the anti-war movement in the recent period.
The immediate task is to strengthen the conditions for the SSP road to be extended south of the border, by raising the profile of the Socialist Alliance, attempting to broaden its support in the unions and amongst other left forces and turning it outwards towards the young people radicalised by the move.... •
We had a huge celebration party on Campbell McGregor The SSP has for some time had serious hopes of getting a second candidate elected in Glasgow to join Tommy Sheridan in the Scottish Parliament. Environment spokesperson Rosie Kane was the obvious choice and won around 60 per cent of the vote at the selection meeting. The count at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow was a complicated business, since we had to deal with both the firstpast-the-post and the regional results from ten constituencies. It took a while before we got any results in Glasgow, but early reports from other areas reaching us by mobile phone looked good. There was some furious note-taking and number-crunching going on. Looking at the ballot papers piling up, for a time I wondered it Tommy Sheridan was going to win the first past-the-post seat in Pollock. Although he did not, he came his closest yet.
Soon there was a general feeling in the hall that the SSP had won two seats, Tommy and Rosie. A large crowd of SSP supporters surrounded Rosie as she hugged her two daugh ters, with cameras pointing at her, she could have been in tears. Then Mairtin Gardner and Keith Tomkinson lifted her on their shoulders, we all chanted 'Rosie! Rosie!' for a minute or so, then we sang the Internationale.