This weekend...

This weeks meeting in Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre on Saturday 9th, will be preceded by the Pilger documentary about the Chagos islanders "Stealing a Nation."

This will be followed by a short discussion led by John Jameson of the SSP, and then a short branch meeting in the coffee shop in the Centre.

All kicks off at 10.30 in the conference room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_a_Nation

By-Election help needed...

Sunday - meet at Cambuslang train station at 12 noon - or if a lift from the city centre suits better - meet at 11.30am sharp in the archway entrance to Central station, Hope St (next to McGinns bar) - ring Bill Bonnar in advance re lifts on 07816 141 064.

Monday - the same places and arrangements - at 7pm or at 6.30pm for a lift.

We intend to repeat that pattern for each Sunday and Monday - but we need a good launch this Sunday.

We will be using a questionairre round the doors - and at the same time putting out the first leaflet. So comrades of all lengths of experience and age-groups should feel confident to play their part.

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy": - James Madison

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"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action": Bertrand Russell

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"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself": Robert Ingersoll

Alan McCombes on election result

Click here for election analysis from Alan McCombes:

We fought in hope, and we got beat. Big time.
But last Thursday’s electoral rout does not mean that the Scottish Socialist Party is a spent force, or that we’re about to implode for months on end to indulge in self recrimination and doubt before tentatively hitting the streets again.
While the media lens was turned on the race for Holyrood, time didn’t stop and life went on inexorably, the rich getting that little bit richer while the poor got poorer, the private sector expanding while public sector waiting lists sprawled off the end of the page, luxury flats going up while council housing came down, war raging while peace foundered, people dying of excess while others were wasted through want.
And just as surely as this goes on, so too does our fight for the radical alternative.

More on the SSP main website - click here:

East Dunbartonshire Council election results

Click here for East Dunbartonshire Council results:

HOW TO MAKE SURE THE SSP REPRESENT YOU AFTER MAY 3rd

HOW TO VOTE ON THURSDAY

Paper ONE - SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

1.Voters use the first ballot paper to elect members of the Scottish Parliament. Your MSP's. This is where we vote to get Pamela Page into the Parliament as a representative of the Working Class - the other parties all represent the world of business and the millionaires.

2. The left side of the ballot paper is peach, the right side is lilac

3. You get two votes on this ballot paper

4. The peach side is where you choose your regional MSPs. This is where you will find Pamela Page - put your X beside Scottish Socialist Party - Pamela Page.

5. The lilac side is where you choose your constituency MSP.

6. If you do not want to vote for any of the constituency choices (the SSP are not standing in the constituency vote) - leave it blank. IF YOU SPOIL ANY PART OF YOUR PAPER IT INVALIDATES BOTH BITS!!

7. Do not fold the ballot paper when you put it into the appropriate box

Paper TWO - COUNCIL

1. Voters use the second ballot to elect their local councillor. In EAST Dunbartonshire, your SSP Choices are in Bearsden North, Neil Scott; In Milngavie, Bill Newman; in East Kirkintilloch and Twechar, Willie Telfer and in Lenzie and South Kirkintilloch, Moira Brown.

2. This is the white ballot paper

3. You do not use a cross for this vote

4. You number the candidates in order of preference 1 for SSP candidate and 2,3 etc for any other candidates you feel will promote social justice. You can only place the number 1 on the ballot paper if you like.

5. You can mark as many or as few as you like, but you must use numbers not an x

7. Do not fold the ballot paper when you put it into the appropriate box

LETTER TO SUPPORTERS IN WEST OF SCOTLAND

This is a letter all members and lapsed members of the SSP will receive in East Dunbartonshire. Click on the image to read it...