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I hate to point out that we also suffer similar situations concerning viable branches.But on the broader level…we have non-functioning companion parties….and those that do exist are infinitely insignificant…WSPNZ operating from a converted garage..WSPUS with a bust website that i'm told has be in this disrepair for months..WSP(India) a handful in a population of billions…SPC members try hard but no comparison with the SPC of old. We've seen the WSPI (Ireland) and the WSP of Australia disappear, entirelyWe ourselves as a viable political party survive only because of dead men's legacies…eventually we will not have the replacement members for the deceased and i have previously mentioned this age demographic situation before and the legacies will also gradually dwindle as we pay the expensive upkeep of HO and the monthly print-run of the Socialist Standard.But my point in my post was that there are other organisations with the same objective as us…Anarchist Federation, for one, and Zeitgeist another, both as different from eachother as they are from us in our respective strategies to achieve our common aim. The question is…are we having any more success in comunicating our ideas to fellow workers to compete with them…and particularly to the new generation of workers…i am pessimistic that we are and i base that on the optimism that we were a growing active party in the 60s and 70s, tapping into a general upswell of political consciousness.Now, each time there is a shift in political awareness, the Party (for whatever reason) is slow to react and take advantage. John Crump in his critique talked for his earlier generation …Others today like Stuart Watkins was disillusioned by the lack of interaction with Occupy…( it gives me no sense of satisfaction that we were proved right, in the end)We are sl….ow …maybe it is the steady approach of our democratic process that is the cause…but equally that decision-making is also our main safe-guard to recklessness…But until we begin to talk to people on their wave-length, which is social media it seems, we are not going to be viable.Until we are also seen to be present (even if not actually involved) in social protests nobody is going to notice us or take any notice of us. You all know my attitude by now…keep flogging away at dead horse regardless of how few heed…and strange as it seems…every mention by me of the need of a dedicated post-election discussion is never ever answered…Until we agree on the means to how to get to our goal, we'll still go around in circles.