BRITS ARE UNDERMINING THE SSP

It may sound paranoid but it is a fact that parties like the SSP are easily penetrable by the security services. The British state opposes our independence and would try any underhand trick to undermine both the SNP and SSP if it had the chance.

The NOTW, Daily Mail, Daily Record, Scotsman et all hate Sheridan because he offers a genuine alternative to full on right of centre capitalism. Most of the key figures in the SSP follow a direct career curve through British Labour to Militant to Scottish Militant Labour through the Scottish Socialist Alliance to the SSP. Not all will have followed Sheridan's genuine conversion to independence. Many remain at heart Brits, as is obvious at the SSP's yearly Socialism events, some can hardly even bring themselves to say the word Scotland!

Militant was a Trotskyite organisation and ex Militants have formed numerous factions within the SSP, most of which oppose a key plank of the SSP's appeal - Scottish independence.
I'm sure there is a minority in the SSP who would like to turn their back on independence altogether and re-join a unionist socialist party (such an organisation exists already even though it's tiny).

Since there would be no logic to this (there's no hope of a break through for the left in England with FPTP) and since it would weaken the chances of breaking up the British state the only logical conclusion is that a lot of these people in fact work in the interests of the British state either knowingly for money or unknowingly through a misplaced abiding loyalty to the British union.

The idea of having various platforms was supposed to reflect a new democracy within the SSP however in fact it has meant that the party has been divided from the start and without Sheridan it has losts it's sincerity on the Scottish independence question.

Fox attacked the Saltire shortly after being elected, he denies it now but he still did it. His sense of Scottishness and passion for the freedom of Scotland is certainly not as profound as Sheridan's and that is where the political problem lies.