{"id":1176,"date":"2002-07-25T21:35:43","date_gmt":"2002-07-25T21:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2021-02-17T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:53:35","slug":"resolution-passed-at-scottish-socialist-party-conference-march-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/25\/resolution-passed-at-scottish-socialist-party-conference-march-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution passed at Scottish Socialist Party Conference March 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>European Socialist Alliance<\/h2>\n<p>The <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym> supports the creation of a broad-based European Socialist Alliance. Therefore, it calls upon the incoming national office-bearers to contact all those independent socialist parties\/alliances in Europe to organise a joint conference, putting forward the following proposals for discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a) joint work and mobilisations directed against the <acronym title=\"European Union\">EU<\/acronym> leaders\u2019 support for\n<ul>\n<li>1.massive job cuts to make the workers pay the price for the capitalist world recession,<\/li>\n<li>2.privatisation, cuts in services, and casualisation,<\/li>\n<li>3.state\/employer\/trade-union partnerships<\/li>\n<li>4.the destruction of civil and trade union rights<\/li>\n<li>5.the criminal scapegoating of asylum seekers by capitalist governments whose global policies create millions of refugees and the racist policies of the European governments.<\/li>\n<li>6.the need for socialist measures to stop job losses and eliminate poverty including bringing the productive forces across Europe under the democratic control of the working class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>b) drawing up a common manifesto to put forward a joint slate of candidates in the next European Parliamentary elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conference reaffirms the principled socialist stance of the <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym> to Europe agreed at the 2000 <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym> conference. The <acronym title=\"European Union\">EU<\/acronym> was <q>formed to create more favourable conditions for the big companies in Europe.<\/q> Our vision of Europe on the other hand is one of genuine cooperation between the millions of ordinary workers to create a socialist Europe and a socialist world.<\/p>\n<p>We will carry this vision as a positive contribution into discussions on common ground between socialists in Europe, and the possibilities of forming a European Socialist Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Socialist Alliance The SSP supports the creation of a broad-based European Socialist Alliance. Therefore, it calls upon the incoming national office-bearers to contact all those independent socialist parties\/alliances in Europe to organise a joint conference, putting forward the following proposals for discussion: a) joint work and mobilisations directed against the EU leaders\u2019 support for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[342],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-02","tag-author-ssp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":8415,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}