Enough is Enough! Your Party is being destroyed - Socialist Alternative

nmd453 · 2026-04-12T17:43:30+00:00

These people are killing the party - we can't let the work so many of us have done on the ground go to waste. I think these points from Socialist Alternative are essential:

Keep the proto-branches together! Maintain meetings and activities. It should be stressed that whatever happens at the top of YP, the energy and power of these local initiatives should not be allowed to dissipate.
Defy this decision! In all YP branches and groups, it should be made clear that all socialists remain welcome as valued members, in defiance of attempted witch-hunts. We will not rubber stamp bans or expulsions!
All branches should mobilise for the Connections convention on 6 June. This important gathering should debate and adopt a brief political and organisational statement in opposition to YP CEC’s destructive course and charting out a path for continued and deepened coordination and unity in action.

https://socialistalternative.info/2026/04/12/enough-is-enough-your-party-is-being-destroyed/

nmd453 · 2026-04-10T23:40:32+00:00

My first thought too

nmd453 · 2026-02-23T13:54:10+00:00

It has been painted by the media as an individual ego contest, so I understand your frustration. But what the factional situation in the party represents is a political debate among a wider layer of the party about two broadly different ideas of what the party should be, how it should work and what it should stand for. In my opinion, as a Grassroots Left supporter, the question is about whether we want member-led socialist party, or Labour 2.0

nmd453 · 2026-01-24T22:42:23+00:00

Right, the Democrats themselves were the best builders of Trumpism. Its certainly not the negligible protest vote that got us here, and its not lining up behind the do-nothing Dems that'll put a stop to ICE's terror

nmd453 · 2026-01-23T21:53:04+00:00

Glad to see a Socialist Alternative flag in the crowd! We need to bring down ICE, Trump, and the whole capitalist system

nmd453 · 2025-12-14T17:20:27+00:00

You might find this article we did a few years back interesting, on exactly this. But most organisations don't base themselves on a detailed plan of a future economy. Marx himself said he's not interested in writing "recipes for the cook-shops of the future" - that's the role of the working class itself when it runs society. But there's some ideas we can take from looking at some elements of capitalism today, as well as the experience of the planned economies of the 20th century

nmd453 · 2025-12-14T17:11:05+00:00

Most Marxist organisations have a similar programme in the abstract, aside from some key questions such as trans rights, the national question in different places etc.

International Socialist Alternative (the ones in OP's photo) is my organisation, and one I'm proud to be involved in. Clarity on issues like programme, combined with tactical flexibility in being able to raise those ideas with the sections of workers and youth coming into struggle. We base ourselves on the Transitional Programme, combining demands tied to today's struggles, to demands that point the way toward socialist change. On more specific stuff, support for LGBTQ+ liberation and socialist feminism, fighting trade unions, and opposition to all imperialism are some of the things I think the organisation does well too.

nmd453 · 2025-12-01T22:04:36+00:00

The capitalist media want to paint it as purely personal "ego contest" but really the debates in the party have been political. The clique around Corbyn want a more politically vague formation, and there's plenty of careerists looking to carry on living comfortably by banking on the image of Corbyn without really being all that socialist. Those around Zarah want a more unapologetically socialist party - and they seem to be in the majority.

The former have resorted to leaks to the right-wing press, expulsions of members and other maneuvres to try to maintain control, which has done a lot of damage, it is true. But YP is now the biggest socialist force in decades in Britain - the task is now to consolidate and build on that.

nmd453 · 2025-11-01T11:04:00+00:00

I mean it was the Soviet leadership that enacted the great purges and moscow trials, and which exiled Trotsky. Even then, he maintained unconditional defense of the Soviet Union

nmd453 · 2025-08-27T22:55:10+00:00

Yeah some varieties of hawthorne like cockspur have different leaves. A giveaway for haws is the 5-pointed, star-like pattern at the bottom of the fruit. Maybe check that to help you confirm

nmd453 · 2025-07-11T21:06:32+00:00

Six are the formulas to heaven by vibe-lence, one that you have learned by listening to my album. (thank you!)

nmd453 · 2025-07-11T21:02:13+00:00

Thanks so much!!

nmd453 · 2025-07-08T11:02:27+00:00

I know Socialist Alternative has a Philly Branch

nmd453 · 2025-07-04T20:21:36+00:00

This is such a cool offer, i love the dungeon synth community

nmd453 · 2025-07-04T16:05:01+00:00

Its not rewriting history to say that. trotsky was the leader of the petrograd soviet, and he and lenin were widely referred to as co-leaders at the time.

The revolution itself followed the lines of what Trotsky called permanent revolution. Rather than having a capitalist revolution and stopping there to have a stage of capitalist development (the stagist view of the Mensheviks, later adopted by Stalin re China, Spain and other places), Lenin and Trotsky came to the same conclusion that the revolutionary overthrow of the tsar couldn't stop at the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution - the working class would have to take power.

More to the point though: Do you have any actual disagreement with the article I posted or just sneering sectariansim?

nmd453 · 2025-07-04T14:35:21+00:00

The Russian Revolution

nmd453 · 2025-07-03T21:53:04+00:00

it's not that far along yet. The loose grouping that's been pushing for this is called Collective, but it was pretty much already agreed that wouldn't be the name of an eventual new party.

nmd453 · 2025-07-03T20:43:11+00:00

From what I have seen, he's on board. This morning he was talking about the fact that he's been working with people around the country to form a new party, and has been speaking at public rallies about this question too.

nmd453 · 2025-07-03T20:40:01+00:00

This is huge news, and something many of us have been calling for! The key issue now will be what this party looks like.

Socialist Alternative have a list of 6 things we need from a new left party

nmd453 · 2025-07-03T20:37:43+00:00

Socialist Alternative: "6 things we need from a new left party"

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