But anyway, your fetishism for bourgeois elections proves beyond doubt that you’re just social democrats. Not that I’m against participating in parliamentary elections, however, it is in order to serve an entirely different objective. Whereas, for you the objective seems to be solely in order to get a handful of memebers elected for a genuinely revolutionary party of the Bolsheivik type it is to expose the limitations of bourgeois democracy to the broader working class.

We do not have any SSP members out there, well none that I know of, if there is that many it might be worth getting them to set up the branch themselvs.

Sye

Actually, just to let you know the meeting this coming week willl be on Tuesday, not Wednesday!

Ewan

No problem writing a reply here, I actually quite like the way its turned into a sort of virtual notice board! The next meeting (see above) is on Wednesday 17 November, 7.30pm, Belmont cinema cafe. You can also keep in contact with us via our Aberdeen SSP facebook, the link is on our contact page on this site.

Hopefully see you soon!

Ewan

Added now. Had forgot that widget wasn’t a default one.

When a wordpress blog has no widget at the side I think it is just /feed

Alan G

hopefully soon?
and sorry for writing this as a reply, wasn’t sure where to ask…this looked so nice and open and visible.

well, hope I’ll get the chance to attend one of your meetings and find out about you guys!

Ciao for Now,

Emma Joy

That sounds great Brett, I’ll send you a proper message as a reply over the next day or so, however just to let you know that your message was received and I would certainly be up for that.

I wonder if you could get in touch. I would like to come along and discuss local issues with your group.
I was speaking to Gordon one of your members today at a demo against the city council cuts to wages.

look forwards to hearing from you!

Brett

It’s at Cafe D’ag at 7.30 on Tuesday & it’s £5 per team. There will be prizes and a raffle.

Dave W

I will confirm this over the next day or so, but we will likely be holding our next open meeting a week on Wednesday (19th). There are several people also interested in joining, so there could be a few of you who are new, and of course it is fine to turn up and see how you find it. We will announce our next meeting in the ‘branch meetings’ page on the website, as well as our facebook page (link in the contact section of the website).

Regards,

Ewan

I would like to come along to the meeting on the 10th but I have never been to one before. Is it ok to turn up and listen in?

Thanks

We discussed the issue of meeting with Solidarity members at our branch meeting last night. We are certainly up for meeting and discussing issues of common concern, and having a fraternal relationship between socialist groups in Aberdeen, even if they are not currently within the same formal organisation, is certainly in all of our best interests.

Currently we are very much occupied with our election campaign, however once the election is over it could be fruitful to meet up then if that is something you would be up for. Nearer the time I can also forward this to you in an email. Finally, if you want to discuss things with us further you are welcome to join our facebook group (link is on the website) and start a discussion with us there.

Kind Regards,

Ewan

If you are able to make our meeting this Wednesday evening (7.30pm in the Belmont cinema cafe, downstairs), then we could give you any election material then. Other than that, we will be announcing on the website when we are doing stalls if you want to come along and speak to us then, we are always welcoming of newcomers and those wanting to give us a hand.

Cheers,

Ewan

I was wondering If it is possible to get some SSP posters as I would love to be able to do my bit to encourage others to send their vote your way.

thanks

josh

I will be happy to attend, and will pass the invite on to the other Aberdeen members of the SSP.

Dear Brett,

Sorry not to have replied properly yet on the matter on having Solidarity members along to one of our meetings. I have to admit that along with election preparations and my/our other committments we’ve not had any significant discussion on the topic yet, but I really will get back to you on this, and apologies again for the delay.

Kind Regards,

Ewan

Dave Watt
SCND Aberdeen

Like a mate of mine is a golf course greenkeeper. He told me about how most of the jobs as greenkeepers are only seasonal, from about april to november- meaning for the other half of the year you will have to find meaningless employment rather than greenkeeping, your chosen profession. And normaly, the typical golf course only requires 4-6 greenkeepers at a time anyways, so its hardly going to require many staff to maintain the course- and out of those lets say 6 greenkeepers, 2 or 3 will be seasonal positions. To add to this, the rate of pay for greenkeepers in private golf clubs, such as trumps, tend to be lower than the pay for greenkeepers in local council run golfcourses. Most greenkeepers in private clubs dont expect to earn much more than minimum wage, provided they are not the head greenkeeper.

As for access to the course itself, how many members of the public in Aberdeen will actually use the golf course? Very few i will assure you, since the fees for a game of golf on the course will probably be in the region of £100-£150 in line with prices of other professional courses such as St.Andrews at £130 a round! And of course, membership will be in its thousands of pounds, and on top of that, due to the closed network that is golf clubs, you will need to know people to put you forward for consideration for membership, to even get in the club, in the first place.

Any feedback on the suggestions i raised a couple of weeks ago?

Hope to hear from you soon on this.

Cheers

Brett

As the member currently charged with updating the website, I can only respond at first in a personal capacity. Firstly, I greatly appreciate the sentiments expressed in your messages above. If socialist ideas and politics are to develop and offer a meaningful alternative to society, then socialists need to be able to organise and work together, not against each other, and myself and the wider SSP are absolutely for left unity in Scotland, as well as an internationalist unity further afield. In Aberdeen in particular, even while we are in different left organisations, I have no intention of, and no interest in, sectarian left politics of any kind. Thus even while we are currently in different organisations, I see no reason why we should not be fraternal with each other.

In terms of meeting, that is something I will bring up with the other branch members and get back to you, as with both that and the issue of the split I don’t want to comment on out of turn.

Therefore I will get back to you on the issues raised and personally express my support for a united left based on a principled unity and value your comments above.

Fraternally,

Ewan, Aberdeen SSP

I was once a member of the SSP but chose to join Solidarity. I did this being in possession of a number of fact. I made the decision based on what i thought was appropriate and the best thing for Socialism. I did this only after opposing the split.
Anyway the split has been a bloody disaster for Socialism.
I call for us to get back together as a unified front! We can do this and hopefully influence other regions to do the same. Lets forget about the hierarchy on both sides and take control of our party.
We are all socialist and must get back together.
Can Solidarity members attend SSP meeting to discuss??

I joined Solidarity when it was formed but will vote SSP if Solidarity doesn’t have a candidate in Aberdeen North. I think it is really sad that we find ourselves in different parties…How can we put that all behind us and move forward together again?

Cheers

Lewis

Our next branch meeting is this Wednesday 10 March in the downstairs cafe of the Belmont cinema from 7.30pm. We will be discussing various topics, including the up and coming general election and our approach to the campaign, so feel free to come along.

Cheers,

Ewan, Aberdeen SSP

I was wondering when you next meet as i’m interested in coming along.

Thanks

Pete