Communist Party meets for Scottish congress

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Addressing congress on behalf of the Scottish executive, Roger McKenzie made clear that growing the party was about more than recruiting those who would “flash a membership card down the pub as a badge of honour.

“We want people who are going to deliver for working-class people across the whole of Britain,” he said.

“There is a really serious job of work to be done to stand up for working-class people.”

Warming to that theme, Govan delegate Susan Galloway warned of the battle ahead in Scotland’s public sector as the SNP embarks on cuts on a scale not seen since devolution.

“They are planning a reprofiling of the public sector and job losses of around 20,000 over the next five years,” she said.

“We need to be organised and we need to be making the demands of our unions for the political and industrial strategy needed to respond to this — and we need to give members in the workplaces the confidence to be able to fight back.”

Railing against the growth in war spending that has accompanied continued austerity in services, West Dunbartonshire branch delegate Nathan Hennebry told comrades of the key role that trade councils can play in fighting both and filling the void that has grown between working people and our unions.

He said: “The unique position they hold in terms of the STUC means radical motions can be brought forward outside of their union’s normal line.

“They provide a space for positive campaigns and to promote the cause of peace in the trade union movement.”

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