Despite no official report on their February 2026 sovereign conference (‘All Member Assembly’), we hear that rs21 has voted to begin drafting a programme. Meanwhile, in the two largest Your Party members’ factions (Democratic Socialists of Your Party (DSYP) and Organising for Popular Power (O4PP)), internal communications suggest some members are looking toward the same move, hoping to more solidly orient their activity now that HMS Yorp seems surely to be sinking.
There are reasons to see hope in these signs of movement. While communist unity projects often appear all too hopeful, and equally fragile, the existence of a programme at least gives a way for organisations to envision what unity would mean: the forging of a single programme between them. Readers of Prometheus know this already. But unlike other recent small scale unity projects, there is now urgency and a clear opportunity. The appetite for a more radical project than Your Party (albeit, at the time, within YP) was whetted by Comrade Archie Woodrow’s speech calling for communist unity at a World Transformed assembly back last September, met with great applause from the hall. Now YP has eaten shit, as Cmrd. AW foresaw, the call is even more pertinent, and the opportunity more apparent. There has been joint work between individuals and organisations on the left of the party that otherwise would have likely never taken place and, now de facto excluded from any say in the Party, these energies need somewhere to go.
We must now build on the joint work and existing levels of agreement between O4PP, DSYP, rs21, solid comrades in rank-and-file YP groups such as the All London Delegate Assembly, Greater Manchester Left Caucus, and others. A delegate conference should be arranged, with the following aims: solidify and codify expectations of joint work between organisations; build on existing statements to produce points of unity; begin mass consultation with leaderships and memberships to work through differences in draft programmes; and establish a draft timeline of further conferences every 6 months to move these aims forward.
What would begin as a Democratic Socialist Federation, should have the explicit aim to merge into a single non-federated organisation united by joint work, democratic structures, and a communist programme.
P.S.
Initial points of unity are perhaps already clear, and could be a secondary means to establish which organisations should be contacted as invitees to an initial delegate conference; these are the five which Comrade Woodrow laid out in his TWT speech.
Beyond the organisations already mentioned, those that broadly cleave to these 5 points might include (mustering all our sectological might): Plan C; Eco-Socialist Horizon; Trans Liberation Group; Orbit; Young Struggle; International Bolshevik Tendency; the various British affiliates to the International League of Peoples’ Struggle; Greens Organise; Jewish Socialist Group, and certainly others. However, the considerations of existing cooperation, work, and political agreements, such as the TWT unity statement, must come first. Some element of existing trust is vital as a foundation to build upon.
