Workers Party of Scotland

The Workers Party of Scotland or Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) was a small anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist political party based in Scotland. It was formed on 25th September 1966 and largely developed fromed the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity. It campaigned for Scottish independence. The party published two journals: the Scottish Vanguard and Red Clydesider until at least 1980.

The party stood in a few by-elections before Matt Lygate (a founder and leading member) along with three other members were convicted of armed robbery of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1972 to raise party funds. Lygate received the longest prison sentence in Scottish legal history for a non-violent crime, receiving 27 years and serving 11. They were originally to be prosecuted for treason, the first case since John Maclean, but the charges were later dropped to bank robbery.

References

Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

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