Some reflections on the formation of Your Party by Socialist Labour Party member, Kevin O’Connor
On the weekend of the 29th and 30th of November the Socialist Your Party was founded in Liverpool by Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana. This party has fifty seven thousand paid up members so clearly it will now be a significant political force in Britain.
As I have said before this party was founded as Socialists can no longer exist inside the British ‘Labour’ party due to witch hunts and also the ideological gap between genuine socialists and the overwhelmingly now right wing reactionary ‘Labour’ members of parliament is far to wide.
Personally I will not be joining Your Party I will remain a member of the Socialist Labour party. A party with a clear programme of public ownership and opposition to NATO and the European Union.
However Your Party, despite its troubles in the period leading up to the founding conference in Liverpool, will probably gain a significant amount of support in the next few years as the world wide capitalist crisis intensifies. We shall also have to wait and see if Your Party takes the correct genuine Socialist policy of total opposition to the corporate fascist EU.
In conclusion whilst the formation of Your Party is a positive development. There is still a major role for other socialist partys to play in the next few years as the crisis of international capitalism rapidly grows. The Socialist Labour Party which I am a member of a party with a clear socialist programme will play a key role in the fight for socialism in the next few years.
Best wishes to all for the future.
Kevin O’Connor