The Consistent Democrats are critically supporting this slate in the CEC Elections for Your Party. The slate embodies a basic set of democratic and socialist principles, if only in outline. Obviously there is much missing in terms of policies, which is why our support has to be critical. We are not endorsing the politics of the various diverse trends that produced this, but in a crucial sense, until this election is over, it is not clear that Your Party will be viable.
The progressive voting decisions which embodied basic democratic and socialist elements that the membership voted for on 29-30th November are embodied in this slate. They really they represent the difference between the bureaucratic group around Jeremy Corbyn and Karie Murphy, and those who support Zarah Sultana’s pro-party, socialist, democratic, class struggle and anti-Zionist criticism of their positions and methods. We support that critique, albeit critically, and this slate embodies it. So we critically support this slate also. If this slate makes a good showing in the coming CEC elections, we will have a party to fight for. If it does not, the party may be severely damaged. Vote for the Grassroots Slate for the Your Party CEC!
Agreed on January 2 2026 by representatives from the Democratic Socialists, Democratic Bloc, Platform for a Democratic Party, Trans Liberation Group, Greater Manchester Left Caucus, Eco-Socialist Horizon, Socialist Unity Platform, SWP, Counterfire, Socialist Alternative, and Zarah Sultana
1. For a Central Executive Committee dedicated to building a mass, democratic, socialist, working-class party, rooted in independent community-based branch organisations that can fight fascism and the far right. Our goal is to bring an end to capitalism, a socially and ecologically destructive system driven by the profit motive and private ownership of the means of production, and replace it with a socialist society organised to meet people’s needs, not generate profit.
2. For a Party that will empower members to create grassroots structures in every town, city, region and nation providing data, finance and technical support to get them established. Members and thus branches must be well funded, receiving at least 50% of all membership fees, with autonomy over branch spending and political activity. Elected branch committees will have access to full membership data for their area. We must execute a mass recruitment drive to become a mass socialist party of the left this country so desperately needs.
3. For a Party open to all who share our socialist goals – an equal, fair, just and ecologically sustainable society organised around the needs of the majority, not for the profit of the few; key sections of the economy owned and democratically controlled by the people who work in them and depend upon them; a society in which everyone, regardless of race, faith, ethnicity, family background, gender, sexual orientation or disability, can lead healthy lives of dignity and fulfilment.
4. For a clear programme of anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism and pro peace. We oppose militarism and stand with the oppressed against the oppressors. We support the Palestinian people and reject successive British governments’ collusion with Israel. We support immediate withdrawal from NATO that only offers profits to the merchants of death and makes the world less safe, when this money should be spent on schools, hospitals and wider society.
5. For a Party that opposes the far-right and exposes every attempt by the ruling class to divide and rule the working class against itself. We stand with all communities and liberation for all people: Muslims, migrants, refugees, trans and queer people, women, disabled people. We stand against all forms of oppression and attacks on marginalised communities by political elites.
6. For defence of freedom of speech and freedom of expression; opposition to laws restricting protest and trade union activity; opposition to state censorship and surveillance; support for pro-Palestine political prisoners that are on hunger strike.
7. For a democratic party that will fight in the May 2026 elections but is not defined by electoralism; all elected representatives and party officials to be accountable to the membership, subject to mandatory re-selection and open to recall at any time. We must support candidates that don’t vote for cuts but fight them.
8. For a Party that only participates in national government alone or in coalition on the basis of a socialist programme actively supported by a majority of the population. The Monarchy, House of Lords and first past the post voting system must be abolished.
9. For a truly democratic socialist party a democracy commission and democratic sovereign Conference will take place: Over the first six months after their election, the CEC will appoint a Democracy Commission, to review the founding process and suggest improvements to the party structures. The First Annual Conference will be held within six months with structures to enable it to be sovereign over the Party’s future direction.
10. For a Member-led CEC: All Members of the CEC shall operate as political equals. This slate commits to not permit any councillors or MPs to hold positions in the elected Officers Group. The CEC will elect a Parliamentary Convenor to be the public spokesperson and whip of the Parliamentary Group of MPs, intending to formalise this role by amendment in the 2026 Conference. The CEC must commit to meet at least monthly, to ensure the body remains able to provide effective political leadership.
11. For Bottom-Up Organised Sections and rank and file movement that is the engine of the Party. Grassroots members will be supported to build oppression-based organised sections from the bottom-up. This includes facilitating a youth and student conference to establish meaningfully democratic and autonomous structures for a youth and student section and make constitutional recommendations (e.g. youth place on the CEC) and appoint a Rank-and-File Workers’ Movement Commission to develop the party’s relationship with the trade union movement. All elected members of this slate will sit on an Advisory Committee with representatives of all the grassroots factions supporting this platform. The committee will meet monthly to hold elected members to account.
12. For a Party of the Whole Left: We stand for a party of the whole left with freedom for members to organise into factions, tendencies and platforms. This means opposing any ban on dual memberships or proscriptions against members based on political views or affiliations.
13. For a Party that doesn’t see Scotland and Wales as afterthoughts but respects their autonomy to self-organise: The CEC will rebuild broken relationships with members in Wales and Scotland, giving them access to funding, data, and resources, to enable them to choose how they want to engage in the 2026 Elections. They will have sufficient resources and access to data to hold democratic conferences to decide their local structures and level of autonomy from the party.
14. For an open and transparent party. Decisions of all party bodies, from local branch to national executive, to be open to scrutiny by the members; for an independent audit of Party finances; for a disciplinary process based on natural justice, with an appeals procedure agreed by the membership.
15. For a Party that is led by its members not MPs and to deliver the next stage of maximum member democracy.
Candidates of the Grassroots Slate, or supported by them (in the case of Public Office Holders)
London
Anahita Zardoshti (DSYP, chair Islington YP branch) and Mel Mullings (RMT activist)
South East
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi (Platform for Democratic Party) and Max Shanly (DSYP)
North West
Haifa Ali (PSC activist) and Chloe Braddock (DSYP)
South West
Mark Cage (PSC activist) and Candi Williams (chair Bristol YP)
Yorkshire
Sophie Wilson (Sheffield Left) and Chris Saltmarsh (Eco-Socialist Horizon)
West Midlands
Shabia Malik-Johnson (PCS and disability activist) Graham Jones (DSYP)
East of England
Ricardo de la Torre (FBU) and Solma Ahmed (YP North Essex, formerly Transform)
East Midlands
Anwarul Khan (YP Connections, formerly Transform)
North East
Ian Spencer (Socialist Unity Platform) and Myra Shoko (Trans Liberation Group)
Public office holders
Jeremy Corbyn MP, Zarah Sultana MP, Cllr Grace Lewis, Cllr Michael Lavalette
