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Democratic Socialists

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Organising for a united, socialist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, member-led @thisisyourparty.bsky.social Join us at democraticsocialists.org.uk/join

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 2mo ago

Following an All Member Meeting, our members voted to mothball Democratic Socialists. We are bringing our active political work to a close while preserving our infrastructure and archive as a historical record. It is a sober decision, but not a shameful one.

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 3mo ago

Socialism is about far more than the working class taking control. It's the realisation of a society that is truly human. Join us on 9 July, 7pm to discuss global alienation, revolution and why building a dedicated party is absolutely crucial. 🎟️ Book now for free and open to all ↘️

Becoming Human Again: Why we need a real Democratic Socialist Party

Join us on 9 July for a seminar discussing the decline of capitalism and the need for a Democratic Socialist Party to foster a truly human society.

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 3mo ago

Defend our communities, stop racist attacks In the wake of the pogroms in Belfast we must struggle against racists and fascists on the streets, and fight for a mass socialist political alternative to defeat the whole ruling class! democraticsocialists.org.uk/news/defend-...

Defend our communities, stop racist attacks

Read our statement condemning the fascist pogrom in Belfast. Attend demonstrations to fight fascists on the street and fight for a socialist alternative

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 3mo ago

Last weekend we held panel discussions at the Connections Convention in Sheffield! Watch our full recap covering: 🗣️ Debating socialist programmes with CPGB & Socialist Alternative 🌍 Imperialism today with Yassamine Mather 🚀 The launch of SEDA! democraticsocialists.org.uk/news/democra...

Democratic Socialists at the Connections Convention, Sheffield

Democratic Socialists hosted key discussions at the Connections Convention in Sheffield, addressing political programs, imperialism, plus the launch of a new educational initiative SEDA.

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 3mo ago

Just published: Read the report from Democratic Socialists reps who attended the Members’ Charter conference and the founding of the Socialist Federation. 🔗 democraticsocialists.org.uk/news/birth-o...

Birth of the Socialist Federation

Report on the birth of the Socialist Federation at the first conference of the Members' Charter.

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 4mo ago

Watch our discussion on ‘Why we need a Democratic Socialist Party’ - and why neither the Green Party, Your Party nor the sects are the way forward. 📺 Replay: youtu.be/WL48qciw104?... ✊ Join: democraticsocialists.org.uk/join 📱 WhatsApp updates: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

Why We Need A Democratic Socialist Party with Ewan Tilley (3 June 2026)

YouTube video by Democratic Socialists

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 4mo ago

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Liberation Now! – Resist the Bathroom Ban, We Decide Our Own Fate! Statement from Democratic Socialists

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 4mo ago

📣 If you’d like occasional updates from Democratic Socialists, we’ve just launched a new public updates channel on WhatsApp—give us a follow to stay up to date with our latest news, events and updates! 🔗 whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 4mo ago

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

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 5mo ago

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!

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 5mo ago

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. 🧵

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

Join us this Saturday 06/12 @ 7PM: Your Party: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly A review of founding conference and look ahead to CEC elections 🚩 Who we are 👎 What went wrong 👍 What went right 📣 Open forum 🔭 What next 🗓️ Sat 6 Dec 2025 🕖 7:00 PM www.tickettailor.com/events/democ...

Select tickets – Your Party: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – Zoom

Your Party: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – Zoom, Sat 6 Dec 2025 - Democratic Socialists review Conference and look ahead to CEC Elections. Join the Democratic Socialists for an open, honest and forw...

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

The final votes from @thisisyourparty.bsky.social Founding Conference are live. We're recommend voting as follows: STANDING ORDERS: *REJECT* ORGANISING STRATEGY: *APPROVE* (with caveats) 🧵 Find out why...

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

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.

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

Solidarity with Erin. Our solidarity must be with the ENTIRE working class - trans liberation now.

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

Follow the action live! 👇 dsyp.org/conference

Your Party Founding Conference - Democratic Socialists

Join us live in Liverpool to hear the latest from our organisers at Your Party Founding Conference and at our fringe events.

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

Support our motions! 👇 dsyp.org/2025/11/28/r...

Reclaiming the Agenda: Our Priority & Recommended Amendment Motions for the Founding Conference - Democratic Socialists

Join the movement for a Party Republic! Your Party needs amendments to ensure true democracy from day one. Act now to endorse our motions and shape the future of Your Party.

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

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.

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

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.

Trans Liberation Group @transliberationgroup.org.uk · 10mo ago

🏳️‍⚧️📜 TLG MOTION AGAINST ORGANISED SECTIONS 📜🏳️‍⚧️ This is the other motion that managed to get through the YP selection process!

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

🚨 Be aware! If you have endorsed any motions, then you will need to endorse them again. The party website has deleted all endorsements - and some of the standing orders motions were on over a hundred endorsements already (!).

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

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.

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

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Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I support a collective leadership. Join the movement: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah with text that says:

Maximum member democracy wasn't just a slogan.
I support a collective leadership.

Zarah
fighting for
maximum member
democracy

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

🧵 We're really glad the party has chosen to put forward collective leadership as an option. Here's our vision for collective leadership and why it's important 👇

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

@thisisyourparty.bsky.social have released the docs 👀 What do you think?

Evolved Constitution | Your Party

CONSTITUTION The evolved draft Constitution has been revised in line with the views expressed by thousands of members at assemblies and via our digital crowd-editing tool. It contains the basic princi...

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Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 10mo ago

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.

Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How do we organise around a sortition-based conference? Kieran Glasssmith, a founder of the Democratic Socialists, offers a plan. prometheusjournal.org/2025/11/10/t...

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 11mo ago

Our Zoom meeting with @zarahsultana.bsky.social is tonight at 7PM! Register below:

Democratic Socialists@democraticsocialists.org.uk · 11mo ago

Finally, we'll take a short break, and then move on to the Lock-In with DSYP: a more casual, free-flowing discussion session where you can get to know DSYP a little better. There are a limited number of tickets available. Don't miss out; sign up today! 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/democ...

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 11mo ago

‼️ 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.

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The road to conference:
In conversation with Zarah Sultana
Sunday 9 November, 7pm

Democratic Socialists @democraticsocialists.org.uk · 11mo ago

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.