BBC News OnlineTOMMY SHERIDAN. LEADER OF THE SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY Scotland's communities suffer the brutal legacy of Margaret Thatcher to this day.
Just as she gave the order that sent 323 young Argentineans on the warship General Belgrano to their grave, so Thatcher carried out the wholesale decimation of Scotland's industries.
Factories, shipyards and thousands of associated workplaces closed their doors.
The hopelessness and despair as a generation were sacrificed on the alter of a creed of greed still echoes through Scotland's communities.
The poll tax marked a turning point, it's introduction in Scotland a year earlier than the rest of the UK both a calculated insult and a monumental blunder.
From the grassroots uprising against the poll tax was born a new spirit in Scotland, a determination to re-forge a spirit of co-operation and human solidarity.
In that respect, six Scottish Socialist Party members of the Scottish Parliament are also a legacy of Margaret Thatcher.
