rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/the-members-charter?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-the-members-charter' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Richard Gerrard https://actionnetwork.org/users/yp-members/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/749/946/normal/Members_Charter_Logo.png SIGN THE MEMBERS’ CHARTER It ends starts here. Nearly nine months ago, we were promised something new. A party rooted in our communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power across every region and nation. One that fights the far right, racism, the cost of living, austerity and war. One that truly belongs to us. The reality has been the opposite. Tightly controlled power. Secrecy. Hierarchy. Every vote, every conference move, every decision, has not been in the hands of the paying members or the many, but in the hands of the few. And yet it is us, the members, who have paid over £600,000 into this party. Not a penny has reached our branches. According to the leadership, we don’t even exist. Nine months on, we are still shaking hats to fund branch meetings. We still don't have the data to reach our own local members. And we are not standing candidates in our own regions, unless they've been handpicked from above. The CEC meetings have made something undeniable: power has been concentrated in an Officers' Group and secretariat that answers to itself, not to the membership. The collective leadership we elected reduced to nothing but a rubber-stamping exercise. Amendments for democratic accountability, voted down without explanation. A commitment to engage global majority communities, removed overnight and never justified. An unaccountable secretariat costing £23,000 a month, while branches have nothing. And instead of funding branches with the hundreds of thousands banked, the Officers’ Group wants to squeeze more money from the membership. We say no. This is not the party we signed up for. This is not what £600,000 of our money is for. No more. Because here is what they forgot: without us, there is no party. Together, we’ve built this party. The members. And we are done waiting patiently while our once-in-a-generation opportunity is hollowed out by inaction, opacity and top-down control. Enough is enough. And it changes now. We have shared our demands with Your Party HQ, with a clear timeline attached. Should the impasse continue, we will be announcing the date of our Members' Conference, where we will present a Members' Budget proposing exactly how our £600,000 should be used, and vote together on a path forward. We signed up for real change. For democracy. For a party that was actually ours. We are no longer willing to wait. Fascism won’t wait. Climate change won’t wait. The march to world war won’t wait. Neither should we. We hope you'll stand with us and sign the Charter — and if our reasonable requests are not met, we look forward to seeing you at the conference. In solidarity, Concerned Members of Your Party https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-members-charter