It seems that the various organisations that have been either formed out of the Corbyn movement and one pre-existing group have decided to form an electoral front to challenge the Labour Party. An announcement was made on twitter that the Breakthrough Party, Northern Independence Party, Left Unity and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition have signed a "memorandum of understanding" about future electoral strategy.
The "largest" and longest established element is the TUSC which is run by the remnants of the Socialist Party that survived a world wide split let alone internal ruptures in the UK losing the bulk of it's international and several hundred of it's English membership. The SP also lost most of it's experienced cadre inside the civil service union PCS which they had de-facto control of with Mark Serwotka for years.
The TUSC is financed in part by the RMT union which broke with the Labour Party under it's late General Secretary Bob Crow. Also participating in an extremely limited form was Resist the group founded by Chris Williamson a former Labour MP who was expelled from the Party. He provided just 4 candidates. Whether Resist (which has a active membership of barely three figures) is actually part of this arrangement at this time is not known.
Williamson has been seen to have engaged in a political love affair with the notorious Tony Greenstein (who has also been kicked out of Labour and either reigned from or expelled from every other party he's been involved in) has established his own political party Socialist Labour Network which also has around a hundred or so members.
The Breakthrough Party is a small group of youth activists who were disillusioned by the Corbyn projects failure and lay claim to having one Parish Councillor who defected to them from the Labour Party.
Left Unity is a tiny group led by the Ken Loach a rabid anti-Zionist another extremist kicked out of the Labour Party. The group once debated a motion that called for "critical support for ISIS that emanated from one of it's more deranged activists. I recall one delegate insisting on singing her contribution to their founding conference streamed on line some years ago. Although the comrades clapped, the embarrassment of many attendees and those watching on line was more than apparent.
The Northern Independence Party are one of the odder outfits who included another former Labour MP, Thelma Walker who lost the plot. They seek an independent north as their name suggest and use a Whippet as their symbol though some wags refer to them as "the Weasels.
NIP tried standing Thelma Walker as their candidate in the Hartlepool by-election but failed to complete their registration papers with the Electoral Commission forcing her to stand as an Independent. She managed to get 250 votes (0.8%).
Oddly the leader of NIP one Philip Proudfoot lives in that well known northern town Brighton. Could he get further down sarf one asks!
It's always interesting to see these tiny groups talking about "unity". You'd think these comrades would practice what they preach and form one organisation but the trouble with these cults they all have leaders who think they should be in control. The "political gangsterism" of the Socialist Party and some of the RMT's activists is well known.
The other point to note is that all these groups keep mentioning the thousands of members who have left the Labour Party yet don't stop to notice how small they are both organisationally and politically. The far-left of today turned to banal hive-mind cultism during the Corbyn era and lack the critical intellectual ability to recognise their own tomfoolery.
Ideological purity has never achieved anything. They will simply try to devour each other as the whole history of left-wing extremism has illustrated.
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