The run-up to the election, and the election itself, were defcats for both the Tory Party and the Liberal Parly But there is no doubt that important gains wese made by two of the most policically dangerous representatives of the ruling class-the Scottish Nat. tionalist Party and Enoch Powell.
The aim of the SNP was made crystal clear at this election. Based on a piratical section of the finance capitalists in Scotland, they are in serested in getting the rake-off from the This brings them into conflict with their big brotbers in the City of London and therefore niso with the Tory Party. So these Scottish bandits need their own state to protect them. To gains this they are prepared to throw a few short-terms concessions in the direc Dion of the working class.
Fundamentally, however, the SNP represents the most vicious sention of the ruling class in Scotland, whose aim is a permanent weakening of the orpanisations of the Scottish working class. "Scot tish nationalism is the ideology they use for this purpose.
While the working class in Scotland held off the offensive this time, the SNP has become the second most imporlant party in Scotland. The trenchery of the working class leaders will leave the SP as a dagger aimed at the heart of the labour movement in Scotland PROSPECTS Despite the small majority he achieved in his own seat, the clection was also a roaring success for hurdles to overconse, he has succeed ed in regrouping around him outside the Tory Party a mass reactionary hase, access to huge funds, and His next aim is undoubtedly to. penetrate still furtber into the workers movement by forming a united front on the Common Market with sections of the trade union burелостасу. By appearing in joint
at ings. in the fight saw through the phoney