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Marion
22nd December 2007, 10:28
The Solidarity website reports the following:

Solidarity Statement on Councillor Ruth Black
Solidarity, as a party, is filled with talented individuals and respected campaigners. It is therefore no surprise that the big parties would want to tempt our members with chances to advance their career.

We now have a duty to those voters in Craigton ward who rejected privatisation, racism, dawn raids and illegal wars. We will continue to honour our promise to those voters and the 30,000 people across Scotland who voted for Solidarity to fight along side them on those issues.
Does anyone know what the story is behind this? Has Solidarity's one elected representative jumped ship or merely turned down an offer from elsewhere? There's nothing I can find elsewhere on the web about it...

peaccenicked
22nd December 2007, 13:00
I heard last night from Liam who is on the exec of the SSP that the Solidarity councillor had joined the Labour party on Thursday.

Andy Bowden
22nd December 2007, 13:39
Yes, she defected from Solidarity to the Labour Party.

Quite funny, as just as the crisis in the SSP was beginning she alleged that those opposed to Sheridans course of action - re the libel case - were "Taking sides as if to do something good, but were really out to feather their own nests".

It also comes alongside the SWP recently criticising how Solidarity is run, and Sheridans stance within the organisation http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=1369#comment-28210