Scottish Militant Labour

Scottish Militant Labour

Scottish Militant Labour (SML) was a minor political party operating in Scotland in the 1990s and was part of the Committee for a Workers' International. It played a major role in the formation of the Scottish Socialist Alliance and the Scottish Socialist Party, changing its name to the International Socialist Movement, now dissolved.

It was formed when Militant tendency abandoned its entryist strategy towards the Labour Party.

A Trotskyist organisation, its best known member was Tommy Sheridan, although Alan McCombes played an important role behind the scenes. The party had six councillors in Glasgow during 1993-95.

In 1996 it led the formation of the Scottish Socialist Alliance, the precursor of the modern Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), formed in 1998. As part of the SSA and SSP it changed its name to the International Socialist Movement. Many of its leading members were leading members of the SSP. A split occurred after years of debate centred around questions such as what the SSP should be, what the nature of a revolutionary party is and the relationship of the ISM to the CWI. [ [http://www.marxist.net/scotland/1998/m2frame.htm?initial.htm"The Scottish Debate" - Transcrpits of the debates within the SML and between the SML majority and the CWI International Secretariat] ] . The majority of ISM members broke with the CWI while a minority stayed part of the CWI and created the International Socialists (Scotland). Both claimed to be the descendents of SML.

Former members of SML still form a large part of the leadership of the SSP today, while Tommy Sheridan is co-convenor of Solidarity (Scotland) and the International Socialists are a platform within it.

ee also

*Militant tendency
*International Socialist Movement
*International Socialists (Scotland)

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