Disappointment in Liverpool
This report by Chris Jones on the discussions on Merseyside about launching a new "United Socialist Party" is abridged from the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform email list. The sub-committee formed by the "Campaign for a Mass Workers' Party" [initiated by some of the former locked-out Liverpool dockers and Liverpool Labour councillors] to discuss the name and constitution for a new organisation met for a second time on Saturday 21 August. The meeting had been circulated prior to the meeting with three sets of amendments to the “dockers' constitution”. [Some amendments from a Liverpool...