After CEC Results & Greens victory in Gorton by-election, is there a future for Your Party?
The US-Israel attack on Iran, endorsed by Starmer’s Labour Party, shows that it remains an urgent necessity to build a party that aims to abolish capitalism. If we want to end wars, we must end capitalism, the system that produces them
At our last meeting, we discussed the question: Can the CEC (Central Executive Committee) elections save Your Party? You can watch the discussion here.
Now that we have the CEC results, what do you think? Where do we go now?
The results are a clear majority for the candidates of The Many, the slate organised around Jeremy Corbyn and his tired, bureaucratic and incompetent approach to building Your Party on a mildly social-democratic, or liberal, programme.
The historic victory for the Green Party in the Gorton & Denton by-election, which is now nearing 200,000 members under the new leadership of Zack Polanksi, has further underlined the incompetence and inertia of those leading Your Party. An inertia and political incompetence that is likely to continue.
The combination of the Corbyn-led dithering and the Green Party surge threatens to relegate Your Party to an irrelevance. It is unlikely that there will be official Your Party candidates in the May local elections. If there are, they will be few. The creation of officially recognised Your Party branches will be painfully slow. The requirement of a 20% quorum for the inaugural meeting creates an impediment that will be near-impossible to achieve.
Many of the 800,000 who initially expressed an interest in joining Your Party have either joined the Green Party or drawn the conclusion that Your Party is going nowhere.
Many long-standing socialist have joined or are joining The Greens. Are they right to do so?
We believe that it remains a vital necessity to build a genuine mass socialist party. By that we mean a party that is committed to abolishing capitalism, not seeking to manage it. We need to build a party that seeks to end the private – capitalist – ownership of society’s resources – the land, waters, mineral, crops, factories, machines, technology, transport – and to bring it all into democratic common ownership. Owned and planned by all, for the benefit of all, and of the natural world of which we are a part, and on which we all depend.
The Greens are not a socialist party. It does not aim to end the capitalist profit system. Corbyn’s policies will not build a socialist party that aims to abolish capitalism. In many ways, Corbynism and the Greens share much in terms of policy. But neither has the political programme that the working class needs to emancipate itself from exploitation.
All socialists/communists who remain committed to building a genuine socialist/communist party must discuss how best to find a way to work together to make this a reality. Can that be done with Your Party?
What do you think? What steps should socialist/communists take now?
Join the discussion. Come to our Zoom discussion on Monday 2 March 2026 at 7:30pm.
Don’t rush for the exit. Life will probably be difficult and perhaps unrewarding inside “Your Party”, But we don’t know the members or what they are really thinking. For the first time the left has linked up with leftwards travelling ex-LP members, Racing off to form yet another left sect is the wrong direction. It may be that we are all excluded but give it time.