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After weeks of delay, on 17 October the YourParty central organising team eventually sent members four founding documents.
The material states that members will be able to engage with the documents and propose amendments through an ‘online membership portal’ which is not even up and running yet.
Yet the founding conference is to be held on 29/30 November, less than five weeks away.
The proposals are anything but the ‘member-led’ democracy that the documents promise.
They are a bureaucratic, top-down nightmare designed to atomise the membership, and to stifle the democracy of the local branches, which is essential for any genuinely socialist party.
It is clear that there will be no possibility of seriously challenging the proposals set out. This is not democratic. It is not a good start for the new party.
The regional Assemblies, most of which have not yet been organised, will prove to be empty talking shops without the ability to influence the direction of the party’s formation.
There is much to consider very carefully in the documents. This needs time and thorough debate, involving meetings of members in the local proto-branches.
Yet, no branches have yet been formally approved. And no time is being allowed for such discussion to take place.
It is not at all clear how branches, which should be the central spine of the party, will be able to have any say in policy and structure of the party.
The whole constitution seems designed to atomise the membership in order to prevent concerted and organised challenges to the direction of the current leadership.
One important point, that should not be overlooked, is the political aim of the party as set out in “Political Statement”.
It states that YourParty stands against “the neoliberal capitalist order”.
Note! Not against “the capitalist order” or against capitalism in all its forms, just in its most recent “neoliberal” incarnation.
This formulation reveals the limited, social democratic aims of the current leadership. It aims to recreate the Labour Party of 1945, with a mixed economy in which “key economic sectors and services” are in “public and community ownership”.
This is not socialism but an attempted return to the capitalist mixed economy of the post WWII period.
That is not enough.
If YourParty is to be a genuinely socialist party, as stated in the documents, it must stand openly and clearly against capitalism per se.
The proposed undemocratic constitution can only be understood against the determination of the current leadership to limit the party to this inadequate liberal attempt to manage capitalism, rather than to abolish it.
We enourage you to read the four documents carefully.