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. It was never the kind of thoroughly democratic and unashamedly socialist party we actually need – but with the ban of the organised left, it has become little more than a narrow electoral vehicle, bureaucratically controlled with little scope for an active membership to make an impact. This defeat has caused a great deal of political confusion and disappointment and means our forces are being scattered. 

Democratic Socialists are launching a Campaign for a Democratic Socialist Party/Communist Party that, we hope, can bring some political clarity and sharpness into this discussion. Join us in this fight! We will soon launch a new membership structure to help us in this process.

On 7 May, we urge comrades to vote for socialist candidates, including:

• Those standing under the banner of the Socialist Party’s Trade Union and Socialist Coalition. 
• Candidates supported by Your Party
• Socialists standing as part of independent community organisations, for example hunger striker Amu Gib and Democratic Socialists members Anahita Zardoshti and Nathanial Jones in Islington, Democratic Socialists member Jay Singh in Sandwell, Mel Mullings in London and Grace Lewis in Coventry (members of the Your Party CEC).

Join us on 27 May on video call (details coming soon!) and on 6 June at the Connections Convention in Sheffield to discuss the next steps.