2011 Scottish Congress Discussion statement
Each branch is permitted to make three amendments which must reach the
Scottish Committee meeting on Friday 14 October at 72 Waterloo Street,
Glasgow
Topics covered include:
- Challenges set by the 2011 Scottish election
- Economic policies aligned to big business
- Our ideological tasks
- Our organisational tasks
- Trade unions and the Labour Party
- Scotland’s place within the struggle for an alternative economic and political strategy
- Anti-racist work including the rebuilding of working class communities and solidarity in new circumstances
- Peace and Solidarity
- Women
- Youth and Students
- Publicity
- Strengthening the collective work of Communists
The report ends:
"Scotland needs a bigger, stronger Communist Party and it is through this collective work that the Party can begin again to exert influence far beyond its numbers not only in the day to day struggles, but also creating the conditions for socialist revolution."






