British-American Tobacco etc.
Since this would inevitably involve the evic tion of landless peasangs who have "Illegally' cupied government land the peasants have begun to organise. The attempts to permit the US Navy to set up a rest and recreation centre' in Trincomalee has also provoked wide protests.
The attempts to scrap At the recent trial of Kuttimani, the barbaric methods of torture used by the Sri Lankan Army and police were vividly describThe most recent arres under this law nas been e student leader at Jaffna University has provoked student protests.
The fact that plantation workers of the Jathila the importance of this sentiment have organised a workers solidarity movement linking 24 factories in the area The UNP, faced with increasing unpopularity and rising combativity of the workers is seeking to refurbish image by purging some of its more notorious members. But here too the options are limited for President Jardwarachc A purge threatens to
within 3 months. members of the left-wing ried.
Line sar nas been in serious troupe since electoral failure in the 1979 general crecuon when TILS number of MPs fell from 11 to 2. The problem for the SNP, was correctly assessed in an editorial of the Glasgow Herald: 'Too often in the past the SNP has chosen to behave as if By Jude Arkwright ON Saturday 5 June, the Scottish National Party at its annual conference in Ayr voted by 308 votes against 188 to ban all factions and groups within the party. It called on them to disband The vote divided the SNP: '79 group staged a Chairperson Gordon Wilson, who moved the motion, threatened to resign if it was not carit was not locatable in a spectrum but on oscilliscope, flickering on one side to the other.
The '79 was formed in response to tne party's decline. It has been Dillars. ex-Labour MP who left to cicalt now defunct Scottish Labour Party, with other SNP such Stephen Maxwell and Margo MacDonald.
The group hoped to party and steer it leftwards into LneaDour movement using such tactics as civil •so •emence. support for unilateral nuclear disarmaScotland out of VATO The aim was I01 the SNP to be such as a credible alternative to the All this was a threat to and haggis brigade' of the SNP Winnie Ewing, Gordon Wilson Robert Macintvre and Gordon Murray, who - SNP Left in tattersRon Wyllie: albatross around his neck formed the Campaign for Nationalism Scotland several montns ago The CNS was formed solely to counter growing left-wing influence in the party and barely disguised its hostilily …LO the labour movement. It was the CNS who Gordon Wilson: making threats were behind the motion in Ayr.
The ban on organising will severely limit the left but the effect on the SNP right will be minimal. The Igul-willg tionalist Siol Nan Gaidheal is excluded from the ban as it claims to be only a 'cultural organisation.' The left has several limited options: they can work 'underground' in the party, they can form Scottish Labour Party Mark II although this is unlikely. option wwve lo torm Is own 'cultural' organisations as the right does Some mar take up the offer of the former Chairperson of the Labour Party in Scotland George Galloway, and join the Labour Party.
But the effect on the SNP catastrophic as Ron Wyllie the partv's candidate forthcoming Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election put it: 'People like Winnie Ewing, Dr Robert MacIntyre and Gordon Murray stand accused of dividing the party. They have put an albatross around my neck Jim Sillars pin-pointer the main political problems of this decision: 'The trade union members of the SNP who were pois. ed on a strategy of rap. brochements wins licac tive trade union movement have received a verv severe blow. Our shop stewards are profoundly saddened because it is an historica fact : that if they were make any headway they have left-wing credibility.
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walk-out, and the traditionalists were moved 'to scenes of glee, gloating and nastiness.' SNP