https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-Politics-of-Integrity-versus-the-Politics-of-Celebrity https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-Politics-of-Integrity-versus-the-Politics-of-Celebrity 2012-03-22T07:45:03Z text/html en Alex Miller Scotland New parties of the left Reviews <p>In the elections to the Scottish Parliament in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) polled just under a quarter of a million votes and won 6 seats. By any stretch of the imagination this was a remarkable achievement for a party well to the left of the left wing of Labour, and a beacon of hope and inspiration for socialists the world over. By 2011, the SSP's vote had slumped to below 9000, and the party failed to regain any of the 6 seats it had lost in 2007. The single biggest factor in the SSP's electoral demise was almost certainly the civil war and split that followed the scandal surrounding the SSP's former convenor, Tommy Sheridan. In this well-written and often gripping book, Alan McCombes – the SSP's former Press and Policy Co-ordinator – gives the inside story of the events surrounding the Sheridan scandal and the split in the party.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-Reviews-section-" rel="directory">Reviews section</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Scotland-+" rel="tag">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-New-parties-of-the-left-+" rel="tag">New parties of the left</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Reviews-291-+" rel="tag">Reviews</a>