”Poverty is the single biggest crime in Scotland; because it’s unnecessary.” - Tommy Sheridan
Today in Scotland, and indeed for the past three decades to varying extents, there has been one question plaguing the people, one which causes the British state to live in fear and the Scottish populous to live in hope
We of course refer to the question of Scottish separatism and the nationhood of an independent Scotland. For many Scotsmen like ourselves, we have said that a Scottish nation is not a matter of if, but rather a matter of when. The concept of an independent Scottish workers’ republic was first conceived by fellow anti-revisionists in the 1960s. That group, who organised themselves as the Workers Party of Scotland from 1966 until the 1980s, campaigned for a Marxist-Leninist socialist republic of Scotland. Their efforts failed and they faded into obscurity, but a new wave of Scottish socialism appeared in the 1990s. After the Militant Trotskyists left Labour, they formed two groups. One was Militant Labour, who would become the Socialist Party of England and Wales, but what we concern ourselves with is Scottish Militant Labour. Scottish Militant Labour existed in the 1990s and called for an independent democratic socialist Scotland, but in 1997-1998 they transformed into a proper political party after unification with the Scottish Republican Socialist Party where they then became the Scottish Socialist Party. This SSP worshipped electorialism, and they gained seats in the newly created Scottish Parliament, after which they moved to an entirely reformist and left-nationalist position. A faction splintered off to create the Socialist Party Scotland, who retained their revolutionary socialist positions, but the damage was dealt and the Scottish Trotskyist movement never recovered
Scotland did finally get a referendum for our independence about a decade after, but this highly rigged referendum was, as it is now well known, purposefully miscounted so that Scotland could remain in the union. The SNP have since been disorganised under a series of poor leaders, none of whom have had any idea what they were doing and none of whom have attempted to bring Scotland to its freedom.
The time now comes where we must revolt against the capitalist establishment in Holyrood and Westminister and establish our own Scotland, a Scotland which stands for the workers, a Scotland which will not fail to stand for itself time and time again, and a Scotland which can end the poverty caused by the British state and their neglect of our country, a Scotland under the Scottish Communist Party!