Annual
Conference 2019
At
The Socialist Party’s premises, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4
7UN
April
27, from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm
April
28, from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm
Our
party’s policies are decided by a ballot of all our members
following full discussion at our Annual Conference. We are a
leader-free political party. The
members of the Executive Committee and party officers are elected
directly by the membership as a whole. Members of party committees
are nominated by branches with subsequent appointment by the EC. In
between conferences it is the work of the Executive Committee to
coordinate the party’s activities in line with decisions made at
past conferences and party polls. Our
party has an Executive Committee Aren’t the EC the leaders of our
party then? The EC of the Socialist Party are not leaders. They
could not lead the members if they wanted to (which they don’t)
because socialists do not need somebody to tell them what they should
do. Implicit
in membership of the SPGB is an understanding of Socialist
principles. In fact, membership is conditional upon this. Therefore
the members have the knowledge which enables them to make their own
minds up for themselves. It is a fact that the rules of the party are
so framed as to guarantee that the members control the EC. First, the
EC is elected annually by individual ballot. Each candidate is
nominated by a branch of the party.
Then,
the EC is bound by rule to carry out the decisions of Annual
Conference. In addition, any branches can demand a party poll on any
question they deem to be of sufficient importance. Or, if they
prefer, they can demand the calling of a general members’ meeting.
And perhaps most important of all, every meeting of every committee
of the party is open to all members—and indeed to all members of
the public. Our door is always open for those who wish to know what’s
going on. This, is the guarantee that no group or caucus can seize
control of the party.
Contrast this with the intrigues, backroom cliques and underhand double-dealing which are the stock-in-trade of all the other parties. All this can only flourish with an ignorant membership.
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