Motions for the founding conference – Section C:Electoral Strategy
Electoral Strategy
Electoral support for a new left party will only advance to the extent that it is genuinely representative of working class communities, has no interests separate from theirs, and is an organic part of the campaigns and movements which they generate and support. It will engage in the European, national and local electoral processes as appropriate, offering voters a left alternative, while understanding that elections are not the only arena or even the most important arena in which political struggles are fought.
Candidates should only be fielded where a political base of support exists within the community and where the human and financial resources exist to make a genuine and locally representative campaign viable.
Crouch End Left Unity
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I would certainly endorse the proposal from Crouch End Left Unity. Electoral strategy is precisely that a strategy based on an assessment of what is best for the organisation at a point in time. Personally in the short term I see greater scope for gains in local elections.
I don’t like the last paragraph of the motion. It seems a bit subjective as to who is making the judgement call of an existing political base of support and what level of resources would be considered sufficient.