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Scotland's national rights cannot be separated from the class struggle
'Today we have a Scottish Parliament, but it is not a workers' parliament'

TODAY we face a moment of truth. Our very survival depends on the skill and knowledge of those who work: doctors, nurses and orderlies, those producing food, making ventilators, safeguarding community services.  

And we can also see how much of this real wealth has been destroyed over the past three decades — destroyed in the interests of maximising profit.

Fifty years ago, in 1971-2, Scotland witnessed a similar moment of truth.

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