THE MEMBERS' CHARTER

The Central Executive Committee of Your Party

THE CHARTISTS’ DECLARATION

We joined Your Party because we believed in a member-led socialist party.

We organised. We waited. We submitted motions when conference came, built proto-branches
in our villages, towns, and cities; we reached into our own pockets, and did the patient,
unglamorous work of building dozens of branches from the ground up.
We were not met halfway - nor, really, to be honest, at all.
Those branches were not recognised. Motions at conference were unheard. There is no
accountability on staffing or funding, and there is little confidence there will be.
Tens of thousands of members already reached much the same conclusions and are gone -
many to the Greens.
We have chosen to organise, and we published the Members' Charter as a final, good-
faith effort to make the party work as it was promised.
The last meeting of the CEC and the resulting inevitable expulsion of socialists & socialist
organisations is the last straw.
So no more complaints: now is the time for action.
We believe that the working class does not need a figurehead, shadowy backroom deals, ex-
Tories or landlords.
We need democratic organisations that we control directly, from below, through our own
collective decisions.
We believe that the structures we build must reflect the society we want to live in: democratic,
accountable, and rooted in the communities and workplaces where people actually are.

We believe that no executive, however well-intentioned, should be able to act without answering to
the membership that mandates it.
We believe that political education and solidarity are not secondary activities to be fitted around
electoral cycles. They are the substance of socialist politics.
We will therefore call a conference to discuss the formation of a new socialist federation:
a democratic organisation built from the groups that already exist, governed by its members,
and accountable at every level.

This federation will be formed not as a ready-made political party with a programme, but with
three fundamental tasks:
1. To provide a home to any group which aligns with a set of socialist points of unity, which
will be established collectively by the founding branches, groups and individuals.
2. To provide networks to enable united action, solidarity, and defence, against poverty,
war, racism and the far-right.
3. To provide a democratic structure for vigorous and principled debate, to collectively
arrive at a programme, structure and strategy for a socialist party of the working class.
The proto-branches, campaign groups, and communities of organised socialists that were built
in spite of Your Party's leadership will, we hope, form the great foundation we build upon.
This conference will be open to socialists who share these commitments.

Its purpose is not to rubberstamp a predetermined plan, but to discuss and decide together what kind of organisation we want to build, how it should be structured, what its politics should be, and what it should do.

We will bring proposals. Others are welcome to bring theirs.
We know what is to be done. Let’s do it together.

Petition by
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Richard Gerrard
London, United Kingdom

To: The Central Executive Committee of Your Party
From: [Your Name]

THE CHARTER SIGNATORIES MET ON 15 APRIL 2026 AND - ON A CALL ATTENDED BY 181 OF US FROM ALL OVER BRITAIN - AGREED THAT THE DEMANDS WE PUT TO THE CEC BELOW, SIGNED BY MORE THAN 600 PEOPLE, ARE NOW OBSOLETE.

AFTER THE CEC MAJORITY'S DECISION TO BAN SOCIALIST GROUPS AND OVERRULE THE SCOTTISH CONFERENCE, WE HAVE DECIDED THAT WE WILL PROCEED TO ORGANISE THE MEMBERS' CONFERENCE - AND THAT IT WILL BE OPEN TO EX-MEMBERS AND SOCIALIST GROUPS THAT SUPPORT OUR OBJECTIVE.

SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OIUR PRE-CONFERENCE MEETINGS AND COMING CONFERENCE.

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We joined Your Party to build something new, a member-led socialist party.

For nine months, we, the members, have co-operated, organised and waited.

We have sat through conferences where our motions weren’t heard.

We have paid diligently into a pot that only seems to fund salaries of MPs’ friends, not local branches.

We have been ignored, misled through constant manoeuvring and treated as an inconvenience.

Now, like the many tens of thousands who have turned away, we have lost patience.

We therefore demand the Central Executive Committee implement this Members’ Charter by Sunday 10 May:

1. RECOGNISE OUR BRANCHES

Recognise our branches by releasing data and funding them appropriately. Start by immediately publishing details of local events on the website when requested by branches. Within the next month, release data to Data Officers elected by the branches and work with us to agree a plan for funding our branches. This process must be fair and equitable for all regions, avoiding “handpicking” from above.

2. START CAMPAIGNING

Authorise and fund YP election campaigns for the council elections, Holyrood, the Senedd and Parliament, with local members selecting candidates; launch active national campaigns decided on by branches not the officers; organise official contingents of the party on national labour movement antiwar and anti-racist demonstrations; give local parties official templates for campaign materials like leaflets and social assets.

3. OPERATE TRANSPARENTLY - RESPECT MEMBER-LED DEMOCRACY

Launch an independent third party investigation into finances, the election, conduct of conference, and alleged manipulation of sortition. For the avoidance of doubt, the investigation should cover: the CEC election system, data breaches, communication failures, hardship fund, why some motions were and are blocked, and party name selection.

Should the Central Executive Committee fail to implement this Members’ Charter by Sunday 10 May, we pledge to convene at a hybrid Member Conference in May to consider the outcome and the way forward.