Sheret, and third to lan MacDonald. Next month IT COULD BE YOU! To enter costs just f5 per month. Send us a cheque now and we will send you a handy Standing Order that takes the trouble out of entering. And then sit back and wait for your winnings to arrive! It really is as easy as that! Send your cheque (£5 per month) to: Soclalist Outlook Supporters Fund PO Box 1,109. London N4 2UU Socialist Outlook is On-line! • You can send us letters or articles by e-mail: [email protected] • Look up our Web page. You can find us at: http://www.gn.apc.org/iabournet/so YES, you have at least one chance in 300 of winning a fabulous prize, the equivalent of buying thousands of lottery tickets! This month's lucky winners sharing out the prizes are Keith Sinclair (£50 - a winner second time running!) with second prize going to Rowland blinked on the edge of chaos. It made a tactical retreat and That's a gain, but neither the Loyalists nor the British have Subscribe now to John McAnulty, for Socialist Democracy
A monthly marxist review * New series No. 8. September 1997 * 50p The referenda on a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly raise the prospect of democratic change in the structure of the British state.
Labour's proposals will not solve national or social questions in either Scotland or Wales, but defeat for the antidemocratic unionism of the Tories will be a victory for workers and the oppressed throughout the British state, be they in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales.
It is also clear that the existence of bodies of Scottish and Welsh government combined with continuing regional can themselves decide on their relations with the EU. Welsh workers against British and international capitalism. Labour's proposals fall far short of this. Indeed, constituent assemblies will not be established by a ballot alone, but through the struggles of Scottish and Welsh workers.
We call for a 'Yes' vote because we support a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly as democratic advances and because we regard the YES campaign as a starting point in the struggle for real constituent assemblies. And we urge all socialists to campaign for a 'yes' vote. inequality has the potential to deepen the political crisis of the British state.
As Marxists we favour constituent assemblies for Scotland and Wales. By this we mean elected bodies that define their own powers, both legislative and executive; that are not subject to Westminster vote or veto; that are prepared to act on all economic, political and cultural questions; that are independent of all British state structures and We would demand that such assemblies act to defend the interests of Scottish and E