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TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections

TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections

The Socialist Alliance constitution states: E1: "The local Socialist Alliance will have the responsibility for all elections contested by the Socialist Alliance within its area (eg council, Westminster etc) and for all arrangements regarding local candidate, agent, treasurer, in line with Socialist Alliance requirements nationally". The Socialist Alliance Council formally minuted, as recently as 20 October 2003: "It was noted that the NEC accepts the constitutional position that local SAs can decide on whether or not to run in local elections".

JOANNA Cherry MP must be congratulated for her exposition of the parliamentary mandate route to independence, a policy for which her party campaigned at every General Election for 53 years from 1944 onwards (Ireland didn’t need a referendum on independence, so neither should we, January 8). As an alternative and democratically valid pathway to independence, against the inevitability of the denial of a Section 30 from a Tory-dominated Westminster, its relevance has never been clearer. Her telling analogy with the Irish general election of 1918 is also historically central as many of the ...