Tommy Sheridan’s Solidarity officially endorsed a
vote for the SNP position for the May 7 General Election. A large majority of 65 or so
delegates at their conference in Motherwell last Saturday voted in favour. A statement by the Solidarity executive described an
SNP vote as “a progressive vote against the red, yellow and blue Tories” who
“denied Scotland its independence last September.” Sheridan and Solidarity are
openly supporting a pro-business party and a party that Surgeon has made clear
will endeavor to put Miliband into 10 Downing St.
Shortly after the referendum vote Sheridan wrote: “in order to
maximise the pro-Independence vote in next May’s General Election, all Yes
supporters should vote for the SNP...” Speaking at the Solidarity conference, Sheridan insisted, “All my life I have called for a
mass party of the working class. The SNP have become a mass party of the
working class. They may be led by a middle class leadership, some of whom are
certainly not socialists but are free marketeers in their very fibres. But the
truth is that that party is almost 100,000 in Scotland and working class people
are orientating towards it.”
The Socialist Party Scotland, the Scottish wing of the
Socialist Party of England and Wales which grew out of the Militant Tendency
faction, confirmed its decision to quit its support for Solidarity in a statement accusing Sheridan of
moving away from a "principled socialist position" because they would rather
that Sheridan had promoted their own pet project, the Trade Unionist and
Socialist Coalition. A bit like the pot
calling the kettle black...
This, of course, vindicates the stand taken by the Socialist
Party in opposition to the promotion of Scottish independence by the nationalist-left.
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