Scottish Communists

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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.