SA Executive signs up with Galloway
The Socialist Alliance Executive, meeting on 22 November, authorised Alliance chair Nick Wrack (who is close to the SWP) to sign any "declaration" for a new "unity coalition" he considers fit. According to Nick Wrack, an "organising committee" will be set up. It will include George Galloway (the "key figure", as Wrack put it), Salma Yaqoob, George Monbiot, Ken Loach, Bob Crow, Mark Serwotka, and some Alliance people. It will convene a "convention of the left" in January next year. It should formulate a political platform in "four or five paragraphs". The Alliance, said Wrack, will "push for it...