Grassroots Left

THANK YOU! 🙏 🚩 Thank you so much for your support in the Your Party CEC leadership elections, which closed at 5PM today. Whatever the outcome - we could not have done it without you! Having met thousands of you, we are now more convinced than ever: We need an unashamedly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist party, where the members and the branches are firmly in charge. Your Party headquarters should be there to help branches, by sharing data finances and admin support - not to stifle and control them. We need a party that welcomes everybody on the left - without yet another witch-hunt, which will destroy our nascent party. We need a party that actively engages with and supports those who struggle against the rapid drive towards right-wing authoritarianism and capitalism. In just these last few weeks, Grassroots Left candidates and supporters have attended the Birmingham bin workers’ picket lines, marched against the right in Manchester and have attended various Palestine demonstrations. We have protested for the release of the Filton 24 and the activists held in Bronzefield and stand in active solidarity with Palestine Action - see our statement, Opposition to genocide is not a crime! grassrootsleft.org/statement-oppo… We need all these movements to come together in Your Party and start viewing it as their natural home - but we’ve got a way to go! Thank you for joining us in this battle. Whatever the outcome, we want to discuss with you the next steps the Grassroots Left members on the CEC should take. How can we implement our programme for ‘maximum member democracy’? How can we stop another witch-hunt? How can we recognise branches on day 1? We’ve got some ideas, but we also want to hear your views! Join us on Saturday February 28 at 11am With Zarah Sultana, Sophie Wilson, Chris Saltmarsh, Mel Mullings, Candi Williams and others. Register here: grassrootsleft.org/your-party-cec…

Should the left engage with parliamentary politics? Is Your Party dead? Are the Greens the real socialists? Joining us for a discussion on if and how the left should engage in Parliamentary Politics is Chris Saltmarsh (@chris_saltmarsh)! Chris is a socialist climate activist and writer. He was a candidate in the Your Party CEC elections on the Grassroots Left slate and is a founding member of Eco-Socialist Horizon. Get your tickets to join in the discussion on Headfirst: hdfst.uk/e145672

@CiaranBarnsley Yes – just published! x.com/Grassroots_Lef…

@Grassroots_Left Any reports from GL CEC members about the first CEC meeting?

Report from the inaugural Your Party central executive committee meeting: grassrootsleft.org/cec-meeting-02…

Your Party Connections doesn’t have social media currently, but for awareness, transparency and visibility check out our open letter to CEC members 👇🏻 Let’s get to work! 💖

I’m so looking forward to our first CEC @thisisyourparty meeting tomorrow although I have to forgo my mosque prayer for Ramadan. I hope as we go forward we can agree dates and times beforehand. There’s so much at stake and so much to do.

Grassroots Left CEC member @melesentially and GL-aligned independent @NiallChristie1 give their first takes on what comes next for Your Party theleftlane2024.substack.com/i/189334387/it…

Bombing school children does nothing to liberate the Iranian people from the daily terrors they face at the hands of the Islamic Republic. The imperialist scum want nothing more than mass violence and chaos in the Middle East and to crush every leftist voice in Iran, to replace the current evil with their own more favorable form of evil. Oppose the blood thirsty war waged by the US and Israel! Solidarity and victory to the people of Iran!

STATEMENT: DON’T ATTACK IRAN! Grassroots Left vehemently condemns the unprovoked imperialist attack on Iran, coordinated jointly by the US and Israel – and in the middle of negotiations with the Iranian regime. In a direct hit on a school, 36 children have been killed. Hundreds, if not thousands more innocent people will be killed.  The US and Britain are backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the hilt. They have no standing to claim that they are supporting democracy in Iran or anywhere else in the Middle East. Trump claims he wants ‘regime change’. But the liberation of Iran from the reactionary regime of the Islamic Republic is the task of the Iranian people and the Iranian working class. Our solidarity is with them.  Every bomb, every aggression and every economic sanction directed by US imperialism against Iran is a blow against the Iranian people, not the regime. That regime draws succour from all attempts at foreign imperialist interference, posing as representatives of the unity of the nation. 
The British and American butchers of Baghdad, those enablers of Israel, must get out of the Middle East. Grassroots Left calls on Your Party and the whole British labour and trade union movement to oppose this new imperialist adventure: to oppose Starmer’s intention to increase military spending by billions and to demand that Britain get out of NATO now. grassrootsleft.org/statement-dont…

An open letter from @YourPartyScot's interim SEC to Your Party's newly-elected CEC members. 👇 With a need to elect our own leadership in Scotland, not to mention the Holyrood election just two months away, there's no time to waste.

No more time wasting. Comrades are waiting to get organised!

And in the process we've also, I believe, built the foundations of an organisation with big potential going forward, one that isnt quite like the Greens... no promises, but watch this space

And there it is: we're part of this aggression. British involvement in imperialist horror must end, and the war criminals must be held accountable for what they've done.

A party with socialists in it is not a socialist party

📣🚨📣JOIN US ON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28, 11AM📣🚨📣 To discuss how elected Grassroots Left CEC members can implement our programme for maximum member democracy! ✊🚩 Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Huge thanks to all who supported me in the campaign! Didn't win but am very happy I was able to help our other @Grassroots_Left candidates get over the line, including my running mate @meganclarke99,and to have met some amazing people I plan to keep close for the long haul ❤️✊️

Really disturbing hearing reports of a joint-Iranian monarchist/fascist attack on a Stop the War meeting featuring Zarah Sultana in Manchester tonight. We have to get serious about organising to defend our movement and our class, now more than ever.

Almost out of words, apart from: thank you. Let’s get to work (right after some jollof tonight). 🍚

Well it's over. I can't say it was a pleasant election experience! But it was an honour campaigning alongside comrades on the @Grassroots_Left . Thankyou all that voted. I would now urge all elected to take the responsibility seriously and out the interests of our class first