That the Your Party project has stalled due to the sabotage of the clique around Corbyn, and there is no easy way to envisage salvaging the official project at this point. It may not prove possible at all. The CEC majority is the product of smears against those trying to push the project forward, the seizure and monopolisation of membership data by an unprincipled clique, and the use of that data to rig the CEC election.

The root cause of this seems to be that Corbyn did not and does not want such a party, but instead of simply declining to participate, pretended to support it and acted to sabotage it. Those responsible committed an unforgivable crime against the hundreds of thousands who rallied to the call for a new working-class party.

At the moment, there are several small multi-factional blocs that are playing some kind of role in keeping activists together.

There is the Connections network, which is a network of proto-branch delegates that has played an important role in linking the existing branches on the ground and giving some coherence to a them as a national network and a real movement that the CEC majority and the petty bureaucracy around Murphy, who work for Corbyn.

There is the Members Charter, which gave birth to a new Socialist Federation at the end of May, which was unfortunately marred by exclusionism of some left-wing trends and at least a theoretical openness to Zionist participation (which has to be tested).

Other bodies such as the Democratic Socialists also show some promise, in that they do show formal commitment to creating a democratic party with full freedom of discussion among leftists, and unity in action.

We therefore endorse the perspective contained in the summary referred to by Will McMahon of the statement that came out of the Connections Convention on June 6th:

  • A commitment to continue to build and network local socialist branches whether or not they were in YP and to hold regional meetings to help build networks.
  • To organise an all-Britain conference of proto-branches, local independent socialist groups and left organisations by early 2027, with one of the tasks to help socialists plan for local elections in May 2027.
  • If the first two steps were successful, to prepare the ground for the building of the kind of member-led party that “we actually need,” with a clear programme for socialism.