1. We understand that no two political organisations represent the SA, but in the interests of the united general election campaign we have tried to come to an agreement, which we hope others in the SA will agree overcomes some immediately difficulties in the run up to the general election. 2. In the following seats, about 20 percent of the total numher of seats likelv to be contested bv the Socialist Alliance, Socialist Party candidates are currently the most credible. These are Bootle, North Tyneside, Stevenage, Leicester West, Deptford, Southampton Itchen, Bristol East, Coventry North East, Coventry South, Birmingham Northfield, Hull North, and Wakefield. Therefore, we support the SP receiving papers for these seats at today's Liaison Committee. 3 In addition we acknowledge that the SP retains the right to stand under their own electoral name in Walthamstow and Haves.
4. It is clear that where the Socialist Alliance candidate is a member of the Socialist Party the Socialist Party will want to produce their own propaganda in support of the candidate.
5. We realise that the SP has a different position within the Socialist Alliance on the best way to run the General Election campaign, which we would like to accommodate in the name of a unified campaign. In the above constituencies where the SP have an existing record of contesting elections the campaign material will reflect that fact. We accept that in the seats where the SP has the candidate the SP will have political and organisational control over the campaign; on the condition that they agree to prominently publicise the Socialist Alliance on all their election material.
in order to ensure that in these areas enough general Socialist Alliance material is produced to allow others in the Socialist Alliance to participate in the campaign without being made to feel that they are simply building the Socialist Party rather than the Socialist Alliance, the SP agent will authorise material to be produced up to a minimum allowance of £500, from the election expenses spending limits in each Walthamstow. he reason they will not get the support of the Alliance is that the respective Labour MPs there are John McDonnell and Neil Gerrard, both strong members of the Campaign Group.
The majority of those in the Alliance, including ISG members, would oppose such a challenge, and made this clear. This part of the statement - which is simply a statement of fact should not have been voted on. However in the climate that existed, it was impossible to raise this.
Clauses 4 and 5 make clear that the SP will control the campaign where they have the candidate. They make a small concession that at least £500 of their allowance can be used for propaganda that other forces want.
However what the tence of these points make clear is that on the debate about how to build the alliances, the Socialist
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Subsequent to the Liaison Committee the majority of Scottish supporters of the international organisation to which the Socialist Party belongs, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) have left that organistrongly sation. (see p 19). It is already clear in some parts of England that members of the Socialist Party have HOIC sympathy for their erstwhile comrades in Scotland than with Taffite loyalists who put their own sectarian intereste above those of the class struggle. From this point of view, as well as the fact that the Alliance will be a more tested instrument after the general election, that will be the right time to stand up to any further bullying. For now the exis- main priority must be build the best campaign for key the General Election the majority of us have seen in our lifetime.
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