SNP

[billy elgin]

Actually, I remember reading an article that said that the SNPers felt 
that they needed the money to organize so they were selling some sor t 
of admission to the "Sons of Scotland" or something like that.  For a 
certain amount of money donated to the SNP in their mission to organize 
the referendum on separating from England, you'd get your name on some 
charter-like list of big Scottish kahunas.

Amongst the hillbillies and suburban patrons there are reactionaries and 
racists among the donors.  The reaction of the SNP was to shrug.

A more exciting development is the Scottish Socialist Alliance with the 
Labor Militant and other left (independent and otherwise) forming their 
own party recently.  They've had a lot of people come in from what I 
remember and their stance is something like "screw the Blairites and 
screw capitalism"  I think that there's an article about them in a back 
issue of Socialist Outlook, whose address I dont have but can be 
accessed by going to www.labornet.org/solidarity, hit useful links, then 
publications, then socialist outlook.  Also there are interesting 
articles on far left regroupment in France and Portugal in back and 
current issues of International Viewpoint.  You get to IV the same way 
as SO.

if you want that article on the SNP, you might try asking a friend of 
mine, Alex C. at achis at agc.igc.org. He might be able to locate it.

Alex
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:34:40 -0500
From: Margaret <mairead at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: SNP-Neoconfederate links

you (Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>) wrote:


>According to a student of the neoconfederate movement who goes by the
nom
>de guerre Crawfish <http://www.anet-dfw.com/~crawfsh/Index.htm>,
there's a
>rich alliance developing between the Scottish National Party and the
>neoconfederates. <http://www.dixienet.org/dnframeset.html>. Anyone know
>anything about this?

I hope it's not true, and from whatever i know of the
SNP - which i support - it probably isn't.   A lot of
scots settled in Appalachia, and their descendents,
like most 'volksschottische' :-)  feel 'gey strang'
ties to Alba.   But the SNP is quite socialist and
egalitarian, and the League of the South is not.   The
LotS might like an alliance with the SNP, but i'd be
surprised if the SNP didn't run a mile at the idea.

I suspect it's more a case of the neoconfederates
imagining that they can get pointers for their own
break from the US union by watching the process
Scotland will take to split from England.  They may not
realise that the UK charter of union provides
specifically for such a dissolution, whereas the US
Constitution does not.

=margaret 

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