[{"id": 140447, "created": "2020-05-27T08:52:25.719612", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90688, "user_id": 677, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-05-27T08:55:47.446761", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Socialist Party Scotland emblem, ", "leafletBody": "Socialist Party Scotland.\r\n10 Questions on Socialism and the Indy Referendum.\r\n "}}, {"id": 140912, "created": "2020-06-08T15:52:48.607625", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90688, "user_id": 2014, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-08T15:53:01.809243", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Cog ", "leafletBody": "Socialist Party Scotland \r\n\r\nwww.socialistpartyscotland.org.uk\r\nFacebook: Socialist Party Scotland \r\nTwitter: @cwiscot\r\n\r\n10 QUESTIONS ON SOCIALISM AND THE INDY REFERENDUM \r\n\r\nThursday 18th September is referendum day. Discussions are taking place in workplaces, colleges, schools and communities all across the country. The run-up to September will be dominated by de-bate on how to vote. Would independence see an end and even a reversal of the savage cuts that we've seen over the last few years? Would working class people be better or worse off under inde-pendence? As a contribution to this debate we explain Socialist Party Scotland's case for an end to cuts an independent socialist Scotland.\r\n\r\n1 Why is Socialist Party Scot-land supporting a Yes vote in the referendum?\r\n\r\nWe are calling for a Yes vote because growing numbers of working class people are looking towards independ-ence as an escape route from the poverty, cuts and falling incomes that face the majority of us under the Con-Dem's. Big business, the bankers and the pro-cuts politicians have an un-leashed a huge campaign of fear and threats to defeat a Yes vote. The inter-ests of capitalism are best served by a No majority in September. Only by confronting this blackmail head-on with socialist policies can Project Fear be defeated.\r\n\r\n2 What about those who aren't convinced that inde-pendence under the SNP's plan is the forward ?\r\n\r\nWe agree with this opinion. Our sup-port for a Yes vote is critical support - given the limitations of what is on offer from the Scottish government. In order words we are calling for a Yes vote while also explaining that the SNP's model for independence would not change the lives of the majority of working class people in Scotland. Real change for millions would require far-reaching socialist policies. Labour also support cuts and offer no way forward.\r\n\r\n3 But isn't the SNP promising a better, more prosperous Scotland after independence?\r\n\r\nAn independent Scotland under the SNP would certainly be more prosper-ous for big business. Under Salmond and co's plans, the multi-national cor-porations would see their taxes cut. The SNP leadership are opposed to public ownership of the oil industry. They don't even support the renation-alisation of the profit hungry energy companies. They believe that capital-ism - an economic system that is in its deepest crisis since the 1930's - would be the bedrock on which a better Scotland would be built. This is ruled out in our view. Only through decisive so0cialist measures - democratic public ownership of the banks, oil and the major sectors of the economy - can we rebuild a society in the interests of the working class as a whole. \r\n\r\n4 What about the Nordic states. Aren't they an example of a fairer capitalism that Scotland could follow.\r\n\r\nThe Nordic model refers to the situation that emerged in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland after 1945 dur-ing a period of economic boom. It was based on a high quality welfare state, low levels of poverty - but with high taxes levied on the working class. Today, such a model is being under-mined - in the case of Sweden in a brutal way. The end of the post-war boom from the late 1970's on, which was reinforced by the world economic crisis in 2007/08, has led to an unravelling of the Nordic model, with private-sation and deep social cuts being implemented. There is no possibility, on the basis of capitalism, of an inde-pendent Scotland delivering decent living standards and an end to auster-ity cuts.\r\n\r\n5 But wouldn't anything be better than living under a bru-tal Tory government that we didn't vote for?\r\n\r\nWe agree that the powers of inde-pendence could be used to transform the lives of millions if they were wielded in the interests of the majority. However, it's clear from the SNP's white paper that they will not go down this road. Under Alex Salmond's plan Scotland would form part of the currency union, with the Bank of England ad-justing the straitjacket of what a Scot-tish government could spend on jobs and public services. The SNP want to"}}]