tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post7406121121653559068..comments2024-03-26T15:02:07.811-04:00Comments on Socialist Standard Past & Present: The Scottish Workers' Congress: Curious Stuff from Glasgow (1944)Imposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post-18172402726039240572017-08-19T21:48:00.932-04:002017-08-19T21:48:00.932-04:00The only reference I can find to the "Scottis...The only reference I can find to the "Scottish Workers' Congress" is a brief mention of them in Wildcat's excellent 1986 pamphlet on the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, 'Class War on the Home Front':<br /><br /><i>"In 1944, members of the Workers Revolutionary League, as the APCF was by then called (see the Introduction to the section on The Second World War), participated at the first conference of the Scottish Workers' Congress Movement, a radical trade union movement which put forward a programme for the revitalisation of Scottish industry under 'democratic workers' control'.These examples reflect the more diverse political views which began to appear in Solidarity as a result of the WRL's participation in the Workers Open Forum."</i><br /><br />The footnote for the Workers Open Forum in the pamphlet is also interesting:<br /><br /><i>"The Workers Open Forum was established in Glasgow in October 1942 to organise regular exchange of views between all bona fide revolutionary organisations. The WOF's slogans were: 'A Workers Council for eliminating error. All parties invited. Let the Truth prevail!' Towards the end of the Second World War the activity which the APCF/WRL carried out independently in its own name was steadily reduced in favour of increasing participation in the Open Forum. The WRL and Solidarity thus both seem to have disappeared at the end of the war; the Workers Open Forum continued to be held in Glasgow well into the nineteen fifties."</i><br /><br />Glasgow Branch members of the SPGB were regular participants at the Workers Open Forum throughout its entire history so, in all probability, they knew a number of the individuals involved in the Scottish Workers' Congress.Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.com