The Green Party Is Great, But It’s Not Enough | Candi Williams & Anahita Zardoshti
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Zack Polanski has revived hope that the left can turn the tide of British politics. But to actually do that, we need a party that can walk the talk, building working-class power from the ground up, write Your Party leadership candidates Candi Williams and Anahita Zardoshti.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I mean, given what’s on offer with Labour and Reform, they seem to be the most viable party structure to organize behind.

    Has “Your Party” figured their shit out yet?

    • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 days ago

      No. They all want to lead, no one seems to want to build it. But to be fair, some of the points the article makes about the Greens - especially the lack of grass-roots organising - are not wrong.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 days ago

      The only thing that Your Party will successfully do is split the green vote. Assuming they’re still around at the next General Election.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I mean, in a number of instances, they appear to be operating in coalition. They’re not total dummies.

        But so much of “Your Party” is just Labour that got booted out by Starmer. And they’re bringing in a ton of that Labour Party social baggage, with all the same old self-serving impulses. Doesn’t help that Corbyn is leading with the lightest of light touches (the kind of weak party discipline that collapse Left-Labour in 2017). The biggest victim of Your Party vote splitting seems to be Your Party itself.

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    We’re a couple of years out but the Labour left, Your Party and the Greens need to establish some sort of electoral alliance to stand against what is an increasingly dangerous Right. Who am I kidding? Most of these parties exist to split the vote and let the Right maintain their rightful hegemony.

  • zeezee@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    Building power in our proto-branches hasn’t been without its challenges. Hundreds of members in Bristol and Islington alone have signed up, but we can’t connect with them because HQ won’t give us their data. Around 60,000 people – more than have been members of a UK socialist party since the second world war – have been paying dues for months, and proto-branches have no access to that money nor clarity on where it’s going. We’ve tried to make contact with HQ to advertise meetings, grow the branch and support members, but received no response. The Grassroots Left slate we’re standing on will change that on day one, delivering members’ data and money back to them, rather than hoarding it at the top

    Two competing slates have emerged: The Many, backed by Jeremy Corbyn; and The Grassroots Left, backed by Zarah Sultana, on which both of us are standing.

    The Grassroots Left has endorsed both Corbyn and Sultana as co-founders, because this is not a clash of personalities between the two, as some believed it was last summer. This is about resolving a political and ideological difference about what the party should be. Do we want Your Party to be a top-down imposition of Labour 2.0? Or do we want it to be a democratic, member-led, socialist party capable of bringing about the systemic change we so desperately need?

    hmm sounds rather divided but would be interesting to see