Maoist documents from Scotland from the early 1970s.

[Palingenisis]

The Workers Party of Scotland is most interesting for the fact that they took a similar line to Peter Urban of the Irish Republican Socialist Party in supporting the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (at the time of the split the majority faction of the German Communist movement) over the Comintern backed Communist Party of Germany, and held initially a militantly anti-parlimentarian/electoralist stance as well as their willingness to expropriate funds by means of armed robbery (which landed some on the founders in jail). Along with Red Action they showed up the rest of the left on mainland Britian by their seriousness about revolutionary struggle.

http://scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/OtherArchivesWorkersPartyOfScotlandManifesto.aspx

[Palingenisis]

Also of interest in connection with this is this article dealing with the situation in Ireland.

http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.firstwave/wpsireland.htm

"At the same time the industrial and rural workers and small-holders in the allegedly “Independent Republic of Eire” are subject to exactly the same anti-socialist pro-British type government as are their compatriots in the 6 Counties. Throughout Ireland, and most obviously in the 6 counties, the workers on Sunday go to their different denominational churches; on Monday, however, the same workers meet together to work side by side in the same textile, engineering works and shipyards, to receive the same wages and suffer the same insecurity whether they are of different religions or of none. The wages or unemployment “benefit” is the basic minimum provided by capitalist employers to enable the workers to sustain their capacity to produce profits for the investors who are also a mixture of different religions. Thus the common class interests of the workers are the unifying factor which will certainly impel the workers of all Ireland in due course to unite against their common enemy.....

Our task is not to issue orders to our comrades in Ireland who, in all probability, are better informed on the situation there than we are, nor is it to be side-tracked by Westminster propaganda and the capitalist press, but to resolutely support our fellow workers in this struggle by agitating for the recall of all British troops, many of whom are Scots whose own interests could not be more diametrically opposed to the job they are now doing, and to call upon the Westminster Dictatorship to leave the people of Ireland to settle their own affairs. But above all, we shall give most concrete and invaluable support to our comrades in Ireland when, in a determined and consistent manner, we take up our posts in the anti-imperialist struggle and set about the establishment of a Workers’ Republic here in Scotland."

[Demogorgon]

A lasting contribution to Scottish political life right there. :lol:

Funnily enough association with a bank robbery can help a political party, banks are so unpopular that being seen as attacking one can make people sympathise, but when it is the only thing you are remembered for (and I doubt many people even remember that) you have a bit of a problem.

[RGacky3]

When the title of the page is "all hail the scottish workers republic," I close the window.