THE MEMBERS' CHARTER
The Central Executive Committee of Your Party
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
Petition by
To:
The Central Executive Committee of Your Party
From:
[Your Name]
THE MEMBERS’ CHARTER
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.