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As SNP landslide wipes out Labour...

No mandate for Tory rule—time to fightA political earthquake has rocked Scotland.The SNP landslide annihilated the

“Better Together” parties with Labour, Tories and Lib Dems clinging onto one seat each.Labour deservedly paid the highest

price for climbing into bed with the Tories to save the Union. Labour elected arch-Blairite Jim

Murphy and continued to disgracefully vote with the Tories for another £30billion of austerity cuts, the welfare benefit cap and Trident replacement.Labour is now faced with near

extinction across Scotland. It lost this election across Britain because it offered a pale imitation of Tory austerity and pandered to Tory and UKIP racist scapegoating. Labour has left millions of people

across Britain feeling betrayed and abandoned.Despite winning an outright majority

at Westminster, Cameron and the Tories have no mandate to rule in Scotland.

ExpectNearly 1.5 million voters delivered an historic victory for the SNP. They voted for real change and a fightback against austerity and they expect it to start now.This was a vote to scrap Trident,

protect the NHS and end zero hour contracts. It was a vote to protect trade union rights and against racism and scapegoating. It was a vote against bail outs and bonuses for rich bankers.The SNP is now faced with extremely

sharp choices.Britain’s political union is

fundamentally broken. The demand for another referendum is growing and we should support this demand. But, we cannot afford to wait and live

under the brutality of 5 more years of Tory rule. We must build and accelerate the

fightback now to end austerity and bring down this rotten Tory government.The Tories will continue the war on

the poor, disabled, immigrants and trade unions. The crucial question is,

how do we ensure the SNP turns its huge mandate to fight austerity into action?The millions who voted for real

change have had enough and are determined to fight. It’s vital that we turn the energy of the referendum and this election into a mass movement to resist and defy austerity and racism.We must demand the SNP at

Westminster, Holyrood and in local councils refuse to implement another penny of Tory cuts. The SNP must refuse to do the

Tories’ dirty work. Instead it should be part of a mass

campaign with the unions and the wider movement to defeat austerity and end Tory rule.We need to prepare now to launch a

wave of demonstrations, occupations, civil disobedience and strikes. We have no time to waste in uniting

in our communities, workplaces and trade unions.The left forces that fought so well

together during the referendum and all those abandoned by Labour need to come together now to build a united left alternative.The stakes are incredibly high. The

left in Scotland needs to overcome historic divisions to pull together and offer a united left challenge to the SNP and Labour at the 2016 Scottish elections.We can’t just sit back and wait for

promises to be delivered. It’s time for all of us on the left to unite

and turn words into action.

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Glasgow council workers on strike over pay

After the general election...

Where next for the left?

GLASGOWThu 21 May, 7.30pmJurys Inn Hotel, 80 Jamaica St, G1 4QGSpeakers: Charlie Kimber (SWP) Angela McCormick (Glasgow North TUSC candidate) and strikers

DUNDEEWed 20 May, 7.30pmDVA, 10 Constitution Rd, DundeeSpeaker: Carlo Morelli (Dundee East TUSC candidate) and strikers

EDINBURGHWed 20 May 7.30pmFriends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, EH1 2JLSpeakers: Charlie Kimber (SWP) Ayesha Saleem (Edinburgh East TUSC candidate) and strikers

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