Last weekend's Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) conference decided by a two-to-one margin to contest the June 2009 European elections. The decision was taken at the party’s annual conference, this year being held on the island of Arran. The move was agreed by the surprisingly large margin of 48-25-2. A motion that the party be prepared to enter into talks with NO2EU was lost, on the casting vote of the chair, after a tied vote at 34-34. SSP co-spokesperson Colin Fox said;
“The Scottish Socialist Party will contest the European elections on our unique anti-capitalist programme, as we have done in all elections in the 10 years of our existence.
“The SSP looks forward to our part in a European wide protest by the left, socialist and anti capitalist parties at the terrible consequences for working class people of the financial catastrophe that the banks and big business have brought upon us.
“In the forthcoming European elections the SSP will be once again ask voters to mark their cross beside the SSP, for socialism, independence and internationalism.”