Respect's "loyal opposition" condemn Galloway's slur on SSP
The Socialist Unity Network, a generally loyal and uncombative grouping within the Respect coalition formed mainly by former Socialist Alliance members who are close to the SWP on most political questions, has sharply condemned George Galloway's disruptive comments on the Scottish Socialist Party. Socialist Unity expresses its dismay at the interview by George Galloway with the Mail on Sunday [text below] in which he attacked the SSP and called on Tommy Sheridan to abandon the party and join him, presumably as a Respect candidate. His dismissal of the SSP executive as "Trotskyite apparatchiks"...