BBC Scotland News Review 2003: January to March
In January the Scottish Socialists unveiled six key pledges for their campaign which leader Tommy Sheridan claimed were "radical, exciting and achievable".
The list MSP for Glasgow said: "They will attack poverty, redistribute income, improve health, create jobs, end privatisation and help to stop the war."
On the Iraq war;
... Tommy Sheridan articulated another argument: "I think British forces are now involved in not just an unjust and immoral war but they are also involved in an illegal war."
The Scottish Socialist leader said he believed that Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush should be prosecuted for their part in the conflict.