Can the SSP revive?
Just nineteen motions have been submitted for the 2007 annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), being held in Dundee on 21 October. Four of the motions have been submitted by the party’s Executive Committee. The Republican Communist Network (RCN) platform in the SSP and the SSP Assistant Secretary have each submitted one motion. The other thirteen motions have been submitted by eleven different SSP branches. That about sums up the sorry state that the SSP is in. And just over a third of the motions — seven of them — deal with the SSP’s internal organisation, covering issues...