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Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform

Below is the policy statement of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform, finalised at its committee meeting on 6 December 2003. THE DEMOCRACY PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE INTRODUCTION The Socialist Alliance grew out of attempts to unite the socialist movement against New Labour's ideas and policies. The SA brought together a broad range of socialist organizations and individuals and united them into a national organization around a common programme and a democratic constitution. We stood 98 candidates in the 2001 general election on the basis of independent working class political...

SA chair's statement on "Respect" coalition

Statement by Nick Wrack, chair of the Socialist Alliance, on the "Respect" unity coalition initiated by the SWP and George Galloway More on "Respect" and the Socialist Alliance: click here . 09.12.03 ........................ Dear Comrades As comrades will no doubt be aware, in line with the decision of the SA Annual Conference in May this year, the Socialist Alliance has been involved in a series of discussions and public meetings with the aim of participating in and building a new left-wing electoral coalition. A series of rallies and meetings under the title "Britain at the Crossroads" has...

Socialist Alliance opposition meets

The committee of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform met in Birmingham on 6 December, with a number of observers also joining the meeting. It decided: To defend the independence and seek to preserve the identity of the Socialist Alliance. (As I understand it, this implies working for local Socialist Alliances to continue activity on working-class socialist lines, rather than dissolving formally or de facto into the new "Respect" coalition). To pose a series of pointed questions to George Galloway, to the SA's "negotiators", and to the SA Council on 17 January, about the direction and...

Convention of TU left

7 February 2004, 11am to 5pm (registration from 10am), Friends Meeting The Socialist Alliance has taken the initiative in calling a Convention of the Trade Union Left to discuss: Who should we vote for at the next elections? What can we do about the state of political representation for the trade union movement? Registration form letter to trade union committees (MSWord file 23Kb) model resolution (MSWord file 21Kb)

SA Executive signs up with Galloway

The Socialist Alliance Executive, meeting on 22 November, authorised Alliance chair Nick Wrack (who is close to the SWP) to sign any "declaration" for a new "unity coalition" he considers fit. According to Nick Wrack, an "organising committee" will be set up. It will include George Galloway (the "key figure", as Wrack put it), Salma Yaqoob, George Monbiot, Ken Loach, Bob Crow, Mark Serwotka, and some Alliance people. It will convene a "convention of the left" in January next year. It should formulate a political platform in "four or five paragraphs". The Alliance, said Wrack, will "push for it...

AWL statement to SA opposition

Statement made by Martin Thomas and Pete Radcliff for the AWL at the end of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform meeting in Birmingham on 8 November 2003 In our view the basic principled question facing us now is the maintenance of the principle of independent working-class politics and opposition to popular-front enterprises such as that now engaged in by the Socialist Alliance leadership. For our part we will not support or work for such a popular-front electoral bloc. We believe that a campaign for democratic control and consultation in the design of the popular-front bloc is both...

SA opposition still "on the fence"

It was vexing to go to Birmingham for a Socialist Alliance "Democracy Platform" meeting on 8 November, spend a day discussing, and come away with nothing more than evasions on the main political issue at hand. In a series of votes, some very close, the meeting voted down definite assessment of the electoral bloc headed by George Galloway, Salma Yaqoob and George Monbiot in which the Socialist Alliance leadership is currently engaged. All is not lost, I guess. At the Socialist Alliance executive on 22 November and the Alliance Council on 17 January, the "Democracy Platform" will propose various...

Proposals for the SA opposition

Oppositionists in the Socialist Alliance will be meeting in Birmingham on Saturday 8 November 2003 (11.30 to 3.30, United Services Club, Gough St) to discuss setting up a "Democracy Platform" in the SA. Events since the meeting was called - the move by the Socialist Alliance leadership to swing the Alliance into a non-socialist, non-working-class electoral bloc figureheaded by George Galloway, George Monbiot and Salma Yaqoob - will demand a response. Below are the proposals which Workers' Liberty activists will put to the meeting. A. Procedure The decision by the Socialist Alliance Council on...

Socialist Alliance to back Galloway for Europoll?

According to the Glasgow Sunday Herald George Galloway "is planning to top a slate of candidates being put forward [in London] by the Stop the War coalition during next year's European parliament elections". It seems unlikely that the Stop The War Coalition as such - which includes Labour Party and Green Party people - would back a Galloway slate, but all too likely that the SWP , the main organising force in the Stop The War Coalition, will try to drag the Socialist Alliance into backing its scheme for "Peace and Justice" slates which come as near as they can to translating the anti-war...

Socialist Alliance platform meeting 8 Nov

Democracy in the Socialist Alliance Platform meeting Saturday 8 November, 11.30 to 3.30, United Services Club, Gough St, Birmingham Over 50 members of the Socialist Alliance met in Birmingham on 13 September 13th and agreed to hold a further meeting within two months to organise a political platform to re-establish democracy within the Socialist Alliance. The meeting is called by the National Executive members who initiated the Sept 13 Open Forum (Lesley Mahmood, Declan O'Neill, Martin Thomas, Steve Godward and Marcus Strom) and two members nominated by the Open Forum (Pete Radcliff, AWL and...

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