1000 Founding Members
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I would like to know more about becoming a member.
Good luck,
Simon
Have sent you an email Simon!
Fabulous!!
What is the tallied membership of the left groups involved?
Socialist Resistance 150?
Workers Power 100?
Ex-WP groups 50?
Cpgb 80?
Ex-SWP Melville etc 150?
AWL (involved or not?) 100?
ISN 60?
Not a huge surge of new forces after all?
Ha. Very many of the figures you list would make those little groups very happy indeed.
There absolutely is an influx of new people. Some of these may have pasts in the far left or in Labour or the Greens (i am all three of those), but others are involved for the first time. We are not a collection of people already inside Trotskist groups. Sorry to disappoint you.
Still, it is only 10% of the roughly 10,000 people who signed Ken Loach’s appeal for a new party. That’s not so great. I think LU needs to think about why the ‘take off’ numbers are not higher.
We are now up to 1200 and rising.
Those who thought that 10,000 people who clicked a mouse like on a e-petition were going to get into the nitty-gritty of forming a new party, going to evening meetings every fortnight or month or attending a day-long conference on Aims and constitution were being very naive.
To have the activists we have at a FOUNDING conference is remarkable, and it will get bettr by leaps and bounds once we properly exist, with a recognisable identity and profile.
Good luck to everyone tomorrow. It’ll be great!