“Scottish National Congress”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Scottish National Congress was a small Scottish nationalist campaign group, focussed on direct action.

The group was founded in 1950 by Roland Muirhead and supporters including Oliver Brown, who became its first president.^[1] Other leading members included Robert B. Wilkie, Archie Lamont, David Murray, Kenneth McLaren and Matthew Somerville.^[2]

Although Muirhead was already 82, he was prominent in the Scottish nationalist movement as President of the Scottish National Party,^[1] remaining a party member while creating his own opposing organisation.^[3] The new group launched its own journal, Forward Scotland, and adopted a socialist perspective, with loose links to the Independent Labour Party,^[1]^[3] calling for direct action rather than standing in elections.^[4] However, Brown resigned in 1954, disapproving of its submission to the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs,^[5] and it increasingly came to focus on the question of a Scottish constitution.^[1] Other activities included a campaign advocating the purchase of Scottish products.^[5]

In 1962, the Congress launched the Scottish Provisional Constituent Assembly, which published a proposed constitution in 1964, shortly before Muirhead's death.^[1] The group dissolved shortly after.^[6]

References

1. ^¹²³⁴H. J. Hanham, Scottish Nationalism, p.177
2. ^Report of the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs, 1952-1954, p.108
3. ^¹Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism, p.122
4. ^James Mitchell, The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power, p.14
5. ^¹Archie Lamont, How Scots opposed the peace time call-up, p.23
6. ^Peter Barberis et al, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, p.402