A proposal on democratic organisational structure

We believe what needs to happen now is for branches to meet and elect delegates to regional committee meetings in the New Year. As the currently existing structure agreed at the conference has no place for such regional committees in official policy decision making, we suggest that initially the remit of these committees would be to discuss and coordinate region-wide practical activities by Your Party – perhaps best called Regional Organising Committees.

However, we also see them as a part of a future, more democratic structure for Your Party nationally. Any mass working class socialist party worthy of the name should be one with delegates from the branch base organisational level to the next organisational level and the next – up to and including the CEC. This goes hand in hand with recallability which becomes effectively impossible for CEC members if they are selected by OMOV as they are not accountable to any lower body, such as a Regional Committee of which they are an elected delegate from a branch.

Such a major change would of course require its own Constitutional amendments. But that, like most of our immediate tasks, is a subordinate part of the wider battle to turn Your Party into a vehicle capable of fighting for the interests of the working class and oppressed up to and including the overthrow of capitalism. We understand there is agreement that the left and most non-aligned members want a new kind of party, as opposed to a Labour Party 2.0 that would be hamstrung by a primary focus on elections and subsequent legal reforms within existing structures of capitalist rule. Regional Organising Committees would be a sensible part of an activist party of action, which we believe should be the primary focus of Your Party.

We present this as a proposal for discussion in Your Party.

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