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2011 Scottish Congress Discussion statement	An overview of the Communist Party's work in Scotland over the past 2 years. Each branch is permitted to make three amendments which must reach the Scottish Committee meeting on Friday 14 October at 72 Waterloo Street, Glasgow	85 Kb

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."

Executive Committee Draft New Edition of the Communist Party's Programme

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Capitalism in Crisis	Financial system on life support	104 Kb

THEY’VE SPENT YOUR MONEY; AND NOW THEY WANT IT BACK. The depth of this crisis demands mass action to break the domination of the City and finance capital over our economy, to sweep away the neo-liberal politicians leading all the major political parties and to reassert the struggle for socialism as the only alternative to capitalist chaos.

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Crisis of Capitalism - Your Questions Answered	Alternatives to exploitation and oppression of Capialism	548 Kb

Is there an alternative to Capitalism?

We cannot afford to let a small minority of super-wealthy parasites, spivs and speculators run our economy. Instead of bailing them out, we should clear them out.
Britain's wealth is produced by working people. Together with their families, they—you —should own most of it, not a tiny minority.

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Breaking the British State	The Way forward to a Socialist Scotland	292 Kb

In Scotland today the link to the British State is being questioned as never before. People see manufacturing plants closing on a weekly basis and their sons and daughters once more having to seek employment hundreds of miles away in the south of England. They witness Scottish soldiers being killed overseas defending the interests of British oil companies. Simultaneously they see these very same oil companies dis-investing themselves of assets off Scotland’s coast. This is why the question is being asked: why Scotland cannot be free – free to fulfil the socialist aspirations of the founders of the Labour Movement in Scotland, of Keir Hardie, John Maclean and Willie Gallacher.

This pamphlet considers how this freedom can be achieved: whether it must be preceded by achieving a politically independent Scottish state – or whether such freedom depends on first breaking the political grip of the rich and powerful at British level.

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Stop the Genocide - Freedom for the Palestinian People	Their aim is to separate Gaza and the West Bank completely, destroying the Palestinian Authority and any hope of a unified Palestinian state.	364 Kb

Published Janurary 2009

Israel’s bloody assault on the people of Gaza has to stop. The British government must demand immediate, unconditional withdrawal of Israeli armed forces.
For 40 years, Israel has defied UN resolutions calling for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, the right of return for refugees and the creation of a separate Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
For the past 20 years, US governments have funded the Israeli war machine with £60 million a week (US Congressional Research Service, January 2008). Without this massive subsidy, the war could not continue for a day.
In Israel itself, 450 people have been arrested during mass protests against Israeli aggression. The Israeli Communist Party, which unites Arabs and Jews, has demanded immediate and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as have the Palestinian and Arab Communist and left parties.

End the British government’s shameful support for Israeli aggression & US foreign policy

At work:

Campaign to reduce the gender pay gap and highlight its causes:

• End job segregation by improving training and opportunities for women.
• Ensure that unions fight more equal value claims.
• Campaign to change equal pay law to permit 'class action' (group claims) and remove employer 'get out' clauses.
• Campaign to raise the level of the national minimum wage to at least half, and rising to at least two thirds of male median earnings.
• Demand statutory pay audits.

Introduction

The peoples of the world are confronted today with problems of enormous magnitude. These include the ever-growing poverty and widespread malnutrition and disease which afflict billions of the world's six billion population; war and the threat of nuclear catastrophe; and the environmental and ecological time-bomb which adds a new threat to human survival.

This need not be so. Never before in history have the rapid advances in science and technology provided such opportunities for the all-round development of every human being. But in Britain, as in other capitalist countries, a deep-seated crisis of the whole economic, social and political system adversely affects every aspect of life.

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Gas & Electricity - Time to Tame the Fatcats	Privatisation of our gas and electricity industries has been a giant rip-off.	105 Kb

Privatisation of our gas and electricity industries has been a giant rip-off.