Democratic Socialists’ TWT leads Charlie and Jon organised this summit to gather socialist factions / caucuses / groups / tendencies — whatever their name — and discuss our demands and differences. This is a critical constitutional proposal we assert for the party: that debate and deliberation is essential and developed on mutual terms; that we are able to meet others in good faith to find points of unity; to clarify & sharpen our distinguishing demands, and to organise with and beyond each other — to become more than the sum of our parts.
We invited every group we knew of that expressed a reciprocal interest and gathered representatives from groups specifically founded to organise towards Your Party present at TWT: Organising For Popular Power, Democratic Bloc, Eco-socialist Horizon, People’s Front, Orbit, Greater Manchester Left Caucus, Trans Liberation Group and Platform for a Democratic Party. On Saturday, the representatives from the Democratic Socialists were Rosie, Max & Barney. Barney is an executive committee member and co-convenor of our communications working group, Rosie is co-convenor of our local organising working group. Max is a member of our constitutional & programme working groups.
This meeting was facilitated by comrades from the Movement Ecology Collective, who helped us identify key ideas from each group, along with their areas of agreement, abstention, and disagreement. The overwhelmingly positive and constructive discussion led us to organise a second meeting on Sunday, alongside our public TWT fringe event. Given the short timeframe, an impromptu gathering was held to develop a productive agenda focused on strengthening our shared concerns ahead of the final TWT assembly and coordinating further toward the founding conference. The short-notice nature of this meeting meant we couldn’t fully include all emerging tendencies — something we should work to improve as our capacity grows.
The Sunday meeting, once again co-facilitated by comrades from Movement Ecology Collective, sought to identify concrete points of unity that could be presented at the concluding assembly that afternoon (2 hours later!). Neel – co-convenor for our communications working group – joined returning representatives Rosie & Barney.
In an hour and a half, we determined a mutual statement presented as the joint intervention at the assembly – not as dispersed voices with disparate demands but as a unified voice of, for and to the party.
Ongoing coordination around the proposal:
Representatives from The Democratic Bloc, Democratic Socialists, Eco-Socialist Horizon, Greater Manchester Left Caucus, Organising for Popular Power, Trans Liberation Group and The People’s Front1 met over this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Recognising how urgent grassroots coordination is at this moment, we, as individuals representing our organisations, have come together from different movements and orientations and been able to collectively come up with this proposal based on what all our groups align on and many of the contributions we heard throughout these assemblies!
1People’s Front could not attend on Sunday but have since endorsed this full document.
We think this proposal represents the broadest possible unity for a mass grassroots programme for a genuinely member-led Your Party.
This statement was delivered to the TWT assembly on 12 October 2025, by a panel of representatives from each participating group to an attendance of over 300. The demands were put to a show of hands from attendees with an overwhelming endorsement:
The Democratic Bloc: We are a campaign to organise for tangible democratic amendments to the constitution to be won at founding conference that will solidify member power.
Democratic Socialists: We will fight for these shared demands, as part of our full proposal for the party’s constitution and programme. The party must be built on free and open debate, member organising, and democratic deliberation.
Eco-Socialist Horizon: We are a group aiming to organise within Your Party around a minimum programme for rapid decarbonisation and maximum programme for eco-socialist transformation.
Greater Manchester Left Caucus: We are the Greater Manchester Left Caucus. We have a local focus, bringing together a wide range of activists to build a democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti oppression bloc in the area, with links in pretty much all GM proto-branches. In line with this we aim to assist in growing existing and founding new proto branches. If you are based in Greater Manchester and want to build this, please join us! Crucially: the first regional assembly is next weekend so it’s urgent that we cohere! Our only other demand is that the party doesn’t take a minority role in government; we will not administer capitalism or the imperialist state.
Organising for Popular Power: We want to push for change through action. By combining Your Party organising with worker, tenant, Palestine solidarity organising and more, we will push for the party’s electoral work to always be subordinated to strengthening class power, not about getting into government by any means possible. The party should build the workers’ movement, tenants’ movement and anti-imperialist movement, but not seek to absorb or control them. It must advance and articulate the demands from every aspect of class struggle.
The People’s Front: We want to ensure the party is oriented towards revolutionary praxis and that as a faction, we can do mass work in the party. This will include systematic social investigation and class analysis, meeting people’s material needs and establishing a strong cadre program to develop leaders in Your Party. We wish to struggle through the demands listed above with other factions and tendencies in Your Party, and must take the time to commit to serious collective study to do this.
Trans Liberation Group: We are the Trans Liberation Group and we are fighting to ensure Your Party, in its current and future iterations, explicitly advocates for trans liberation, and encourages the political participation of trans people.