Scottish socialists campaigning for and against independence will take part in a frantic final referendum day drive today.

With an unprecedented 98 per cent of people registered to vote, the young, poor and previously ignored hold the balance of power in this historic ballot to decide Scotland’s future.

And left activists in the Yes and No camps are leading the drive to mobilise these crucial voters for their cause.

The latest spate of polls showed Yes consistently trailing the No campaign by 48 per cent to 52 per cent.

But the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) hopes a high turnout in working-class communities can overturn the predictions at the ballot box.

Activists will be knocking the doors of supporters they identified in a huge voter registration drive they began when the referendum was called in March 2013.

RIC cofounder Jonathan Shafi told the Star: “There’s a genuine engagement that’s taken place, through which ordinary people have realised that Yes gives them a platform for social change and a rejection of decades of Westminster misrule.

“The people who are going to win this are the people who haven’t had a voice ever in the Westminster system.

“That’s why the banks, the corporations, the political elite are so worried.”

Yes strategists believe getting voters in Glasgow — home to more than 10 per cent of Scots — to polling stations is key to victory for them.

“It’s not a question of whether Yes will win in Glasgow, it’s a question of how much we can win by,” insisted Mr Shafi.

But shadow Scottish health secretary Neil Findlay said yesterday that there is “no evidence” that a majority of working-class people support independence.

Fresh from campaigning in Glasgow’s East End, the Labour MSP reported that the No vote there is “holding up very, very well.”

Mr Findlay, a leading supporter of the pro-class politics Red Paper Collective, issued a rallying call yesterday for voters to put class before the national question.

“The big advances that we’ve made across the centuries is when working people stuck together,” he told the Star.

“We gained the right to vote, the NHS, the welfare state, the national minimum wage. Nationalism didn’t deliver that — it was working people campaigning and agitating that delivered that.”

“And I think we can do that again.”

Fears have been raised that the split between socialists caused by the referendum will damage future campaigns.

Labour leader Ed Miliband blasted the debate’s “ugly side” after being bullied out of an Edinburgh walkabout on Tuesday evening by baying Yes supporters.

Unison national executive member Gordon McKay admitted there will be “difficult issues in building relationships” among the public in the wake of today’s vote.

That bad behaviour displayed by both sides has not been reflected in Unison’s “comradely” debate, according to Mr McKay.

And he said: “I’m hopeful and confident that we can pull trade unionists back together again to work in the interests of everyone.

“The need for public services isn’t going to change one iota, whatever the outcome of the referendum is tomorrow.”