The destination of one road in the struggle against unemployment - that taken by the ex-Daily Express workers of the Scottish Daily News - was made only too apparent last Satur day with the closure of the paper. ers co-operative' which sought its support in sympathetic fin ancial backers and the demagogic promises of Benn.
The organisations of the working class were seen by the SDN leaders as a useful arena for fund-raising and general support, but not as a basis for a workers' newspaper under their control and direction. to its current backing from left Labourism to semi-reactionary populism, from a propaganda sheet for the Scottish Nationalist Party to the mouthpiece of Robert Maxwell, from radical ecstasy to tit-and-bum' sensationalism.
When the Labour Government turned down flat the appeal for a last-ditch loan.
They had formed a workThe SDA, therefore, veered according - not much larger than a month's do in Scotland: the Tory hanger-and-flogger Teddy Taylor; the right-wing Labourite Willie Hamilton: the ghost of the ex-Liberal leader Jo Grimond; and the SNP Chairman William Wolle.
To hear the funeral orations of these carpetbaggers less than 300 people marched from the SDN offices in Albion Street. Even Jimmy Reid and the assorted bishops present at an earlier rally did not turn up to administer the last rites. The take-over of the march by the SNP with banners and loudspeakers blaring the anthem of nationalist reaction Flower of Scotland' was so blatant that the only contingent from the labour movement, that of the Labour Party Young Socialists, correbuy wimarew in casgust A small contingent of SDN workers are now maintaining a *sit-in' in the Albion Street plant - the mausoleum of a struggle which based its 'co-operation' not on the co-operation and con or E2 for Critique subscribers.
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