New Left of Labour Political Party?
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Our leaflet was handed out yesterday in Liverpool and also on the Palestine March in London. Today it will be in Liverpool again and also at a trade union event in Frome in Somerset.
All of the reprint, with a new title, having now been distributed. North West members report:
“Our leaflet was called ‘YP – Labour 2.0?’ and argued that even if Your Party was ever able to form a government, it would inevitably suffer the same fate as the original Labour Party, meaning that YP would not change capitalism, capitalism would change YP. It’s quite possibly no coincidence that we handed Zara Sultana a leaflet in person, after which a YouTube video appeared in which she specifically denied that Your Party would turn into Labour 2.0.”
Others had been handing out leaflet about the YP becoming like the Labour Party, but they – in fact like our first leaflet – wrote of “Labour Mark 2”.
In any event, as far as we know, only our reprinted leaflet wrote of “Labour 0.2”.
https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1994692841554247979/photo/1
A whinge from SPEW about not being allowed free range to enter and recruit members from the Your Party:
I read on their FB site (I think) that YP voted to allow dual membership, but that Dave Nellist of SPEW was complaining that he was blocked from standing for elections to the EC
It’s more convoluted than that. The YP Conference voted down a motion for an absolute ban on being a member of another party in favour of :
“Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally. The approved list shall be subject to ongoing CEC review and annual ratification by National Conference.”
The argument against Nellist’s candidature is that his party (SPEW), in fact no party, can be covered by this because the CEC has not draw up an approved list.
A bit of a Catch 22 position perhaps, but Nellist (and many others) will have joined under false pretences as to join you had to declare that you were not a member of any other national political party. Nellist was probably expecting to be barred because he openly and prominently declared on his nomination that he was a member of SPEW.
There doesn’t seem to have been any move to expel the others who have dual membership, so they will have a vote in the CEC elections.
It’s going to depend on the composition of the CEC whether SPEWers will be allowed to stay in.
Who would have thought of it? The Greens winning the Gorton and Denton by-election with a majority of 4000 votes. I wonder what impact this going to have on the “Your Party” party…
Your Party (now controlled by the Corbyn faction) has issued a statement on the Greens’s by-election victory. Here is the most significant part (which some on the Sultana wing — the Trotskyist entryists whose support she had cultivated — don’t agree with as they say the Greens are “pro-capitalist”):
“Moving forward, Your Party will work together with the Greens as friends and allies, not opponents.”
We will see what this means for the local elections in May.
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