shifted. "in the direction of adapting to the pressures of capitalism and nationalism"; that we have a "tendency to increasingly see the SSP's day to day politics within the boundaries of Scotland itself and within the boundaries of capitalism"; that we are engaged in "a retreat from internationalism"; that we are "encouraging the working class of one country or region to compete with workers in another region for who will work cheapest." does not in any way reflect the position of All of this is based on a single quote which Tommy Sheridan was quoted as saying: "In a future independent socialist Scotland we want to work on training, on skills. We want to offer a very highly skilled economy, a motivated work force for big business. If that can work in places like France and Germany, where they have higher wages and better standards, and produce better products, why can't that work here in Scotland?" In answer to the question, "Would you nationalise Tesco?", Tommy said, "I don't think there's a need to nationalise right now" and "What we would be doing is regulating business. You don't have to own it, you just regulate it."
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the SSP and they will tell you the difficulties of applying general slogans about public ownership to specific companies in that sector.
For those sections of the economy which would be difficult or inappropriate to bring into public ownership, including the small business sector, many call centres and electronic branch assembly plants, our emphasis instead should be in laying down legislation enforcing minimum standards, including a CIALIST PARI soclalist resistance Summer 2003 9