Scottish Communists held their biannual Congress in Govan’s Pearce Institute last month. The delegates were the youngest cohort for decades reflecting the Party attracting a new generation to its ranks.
The comrades rededicated themselves to giving full support to the Morning Star and building sales of the paper, recognising the importance of its analysis to the labour, trade union, and progressive movement.
Holding street stalls and readers and supporters meetings in working class communities were key in building class consciousness and tackling the confusion caused by the reactionary ideas pumped out by capitalist media which has resulted in the rise of the far right.
Never ending wars, enviromental disaster, the rise of the far right, and mass poverty amidst immense wealth, was the result of imperialism and the failure of social democracy to resolve the crisis in the interests of the working class.
Communists would continue to build on their work in the mass movements, seeking to draw others into struggle and winning a left alternative.
The need for Progressive Federalism, sex based rights, tackling the two tier health service. combatting cuts to public services, a just transition in its industrial strategy, marxist education, and anti fascism, were amongst the debates and motions that took place.
At the end of Congress over a hundred people from the trade union movement, academia, and the local community, turned up to pay tribute to the life time work of leading communist, Professor John Foster. A book was launched “What is History For” in honour of John.