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Democratic Socialists

@democraticsocialists.org.uk
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 31/05/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Liberation Now! – Resist the Bathroom Ban, We Decide Our Own Fate! Statement from Democratic Socialists
LGBTQIA+ and Trans liberation flags
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 27/05/2026
Where does the left go after the de-facto implosion of Your Party? It’s time to talk about building the mass, democratic socialist party the working class desperately needs. ✊🌹 Join us for an online public meeting next Wednesday 3 June, 7pm. 🎟️ Book for free: events.humanitix.com/why-we-need-...
Democratic Socialists: Why we need a democratic socialist party, Wednesday 3 june, 7pm
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 04/05/2026
Defy the threats and lies – All out for Nakba 78: March for Palestine on 16 May! 🧵 Globalise the Intifada! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 02/05/2026
On 7 May, vote socialist where you can! It is a great shame that on 7 May, there will not be a united socialist challenge at the ballot box. Our forces are disunited, thanks in no small part to the collapse of Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party. 🧵
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 30/11/2025
Our round up of day 1 of conference
Roundup of Day 1 at Conference Day 1 of Your Party's founding conference was marred by controversy with proceedings only offering a thin veneer of democracy. We were provided with an online voting system which rigidly applied pre-determined questions by Your Party unelected clique. During a seven-hour conference, member-submitted motions were debated for a total of 10 minutes, speakers were cut off, the livestream was interrupted when speakers raised points critical of the bureaucracy, and the draconian standing orders were followed selectively.
Notably our point of order asking why our motion on a Workers Wage was not on the agenda was submitted within the rules, yet we received no feedback until our organisers challenged senior party figures at the end of the day. We think that Your Party officials needs to follow their own rules and give a formal response to conference on our point of order and to allow conference to allocate time to debate this critical motion.
The controversies continued with senior figures in the SWP being expelled from the party, including one who claims he wasn't even a member of Your Party. We also saw reports on social media of members being expelled from conference with sham justifications. We have serious
disagreements with and criticisms of the
SWP. especially their history of abuse and cover ups, but this doesn't negate the basic democratic demand that all members be entitled to due process. We should collectively push back to demand Your Party allows dual membership. The choice between an outright ban or a whitelist is no choice at all.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 29/11/2025
Solidarity with Erin. Our solidarity must be with the ENTIRE working class - trans liberation now.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 28/11/2025
Our Joint Statement on 'Dual Carding' Expulsions with Ecosocialist Horizon, Greater Manchester Left Caucus, Organising for Popular Power, rs21, Trans Liberation Group and Democratic Bloc
Joint Statement: No to 'Dual Carding' Expulsions. We understand that multiple leading members of the SWP have been expelled from Your Party on the basis of 'dual carding'. We absolutely oppose this anti-democratic and cynical move. This is a targeted factional attack by the bureaucracy, using an unclear rule with no mandate whatsoever. The hope and opportunity of Your Party is that it can be a party of the whole left, on a scale w have not seen in a generation. Achieving that will take a commitment to pluralism and open debate. 

Hundreds of members of socialist organisations are committed to building the grassroots of the party. Factional attempts to exclude the revolutionary left by the stroke of pen can't be tolerated in a democratic, socialist party.The dual carding ban could also be used against hundreds of committed members who have decided to also hold Green Party memberships for now, and deter current members of the Greens from participating in Your Party. The founding conference is currently set to vote on whether to have a total ban on dual memberships with national political parties, or a whitelist of some permitted groups. Both options would open the door to more bureaucratic explusions. Regional assemblies have been ignored. Amendments to have no ban on dual carding have been ruled out of order. This weekend's founding conference must be able to vote on an amendment to completely remove the ban on dual membership. 

Signed: Democratic Bloc, Democratic Socialists of Your Party, Ecosocialist Horizon, Greater Manchester Left Caucus, Organising for Popular Power, rs21, Trans Liberation Group.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 28/11/2025
This must be resisted. Reverse the expulsion. Publish the procedures. Establish a democratic disciplinary system under the control of the members, not a self-appointed clique. If Your Party is to become anything more than a label or an echo of past hopes, the fight against bureaucratic rule must begin now.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 28/11/2025
And let us be clear: it was Marxist organisations—small, disciplined, often isolated—that kept socialist politics alive in the vacuum created by Corbyn’s defeat. While Corbyn hesitated, equivocated, and delayed any attempt to rally the movement he once led, it was these groups that maintained campaigns, arguments, and organising capacity. To punish them now is not only unjust; it is an act of political ingratitude and strategic stupidity.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 28/11/2025
To remove comrades without process, oversight, or political argument is to strike at the foundations of any workers’ party worthy of the name. The absurdity is obvious: Jeremy Corbyn himself has spoken at SWP events in recent years. What passes today as grounds for expulsion was commonplace practice for the very figure around whom this project was built. If the SWP current can be expelled now without cause, any militant or dissenting voice can be expelled tomorrow. Bureaucracy advances by habit; it stops only when the membership stops it.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 28/11/2025
Our Statement on Socialist Expulsions:
The leadership of Your Party has crossed a political Rubicon. By expelling a senior member of a political organisation that is participating in the Party on the eve of the founding conference, their autocratic habits threaten to waste the potential that still remains in this project. A party that begins with a purge announces that it prefers command from above to the self-activity of its own members.
This act is not discipline. It is a clumsy factional blow. At the very moment when the left most needs open debate and the free contest of socialist currents, the leadership reaches instinctively for the methods of the Labour right: silence the opposition first, invent the rationale later—if at all.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 26/11/2025
Your Party needs to be a big tent, multi-tendency, socialist party. We need an Option C: members of other parties can join as long as their party doesn't run against us in elections.
Roadmap Amendment 2 Clause 4

Option A Dual Membership with aligned allied parties
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.

Option B No Dual Members
Members may not hold membership in any other national political party.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 18/11/2025
The second round of delegates to Your Party conference have been selected! The confirmation email informs that the founding documents crowd-editing portal will close tomorrow at midday:
Meanwhile, our unique online crowd-editing tool, pioneered by our friends at DiEM25, has allowed thousands of members to directly propose changes to the documents you will be debating at the conference.

Crowd-editing submissions will close at midday, Wednesday 19 November. There's no reason why, as a conference participant, you can't suggest changes using this tool, so if you've been meaning to get around to it, now is the time.

Later this week we will publish revised drafts of the four documents, updated in response to the regional assemblies and crowd-editing submissions. These will be the versions going into the conference, so keep your eyes peeled.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 06/11/2025
‼️ THE ROAD TO CONFERENCE: DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS IN CONVERSATION WITH ZARAH SULTANA, SUNDAY 09/11 @ 7PM ‼️ We are excited to announce our next public meeting on Sunday 9th Nov @ 7pm, when @zarahsultana.bsky.social will join us for a discussion on our shared goals ahead of conference.
Democratic socialists
The road to conference:
In conversation with Zarah Sultana 
Sunday 9 November, 7pm
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 02/11/2025
We’re in the final session—starting with a speaker moving an emergency motion for Democratic participation in the foundation of @thisisyourparty.bsky.social
A large group of attendees at the Sheffield assembly. The photo is from behind the crowd showing people sitting in rows of seats. There is a projector screen at the front of the room.Two people sat at the chair’s table. There is a poster with “this is your party”.A print out of the emergency motion. Link to the full motion is in the tweet thread.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 02/11/2025
The alternative proposals from the organisers are much more popular than the original drafts so far!
Large pieces of paper in different colours with amendments to the YP founding documents printed on. Lots of stickers under “alternative” with very few stickers under “current”.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 02/11/2025
We’re also at the @thisisyourparty.bsky.social South London Regional Assembly, which has just started… with attendees here also challenging no votes being allowed.
A full room of attendees at the south london regional assembly. The room is packed with people sat in groups around tables.
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 02/11/2025
Attendees have been given stickers to show their support for amendments to founding documents.
Large piece of paper with “current” and “alternative” columns for proposals for the structure of YP leadership. The alternative proposal, leadership elected annually from conference, dozens of stickers of whilst the current proposal for online leadership has only two
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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 02/11/2025
We’re at the @thisisyourparty.bsky.social South Yorkshire Regional Assembly where members have been given key amendment guides and an emergency motion from the elected proto-branch committee
Copy of an emergency motion and key amendment guides on a chair. Link to the emergency motion is in the thread.
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