I think that this an essential component of the best approach to elections from where we are now. Not that long ago it was standard best practice from communists and socialists in electoral contests where they weren't standing their own candidates
Well done Duncan and fully support what you are saying. I'm not at all sure about the Green Left in Cymru at the current time. Anyway this was one of the last statements from the People's Assembly Wales which covers much of the same ground and goes further in terms of a 'needs based comprehensive spending review'. https://pawalescymru.blogspot.com/2022/11/resisting-tory-austerity-in-wales-our_15.html You can see the history of the People's Assembly year after year trying to get Senedd members to fight austerity: https://pawalescymru.blogspot.com/ Much of this work has been supported by Cymru'n Codi and is embedded in our programme. We shall be looking to the left to take it forward in their parties if they are membes of one or directly in terms of supporting Cymru'n Codi: https://cymruncodi.substack.com/
Yes, the Green Left organisation in GPEW seems to have low activity, and I suspect it may have been affected by disagreements over trans rights. Either way, it does not seem to have grown much.
As an agitational demand, the needs-based review is a good one. However, I have some concerns about how effective that will be or how that might change the dynamic between the rank and file and the governing parties.
It's an interesting demand in Cymru as there actually was one in 2005 which led to a huge investment in public services over three years, tragically cut short by the austerity response to the financial crisis. By 2013 all had been lost and we were back to square one. However it translates the need to repair the damage of austerity and the pandemic into a case for all public services and not just specific cases such as NHS waiting lists. It also raises the key question of the needs of people and the planet and not profit. Anyway the letters to Senedd members and councillors on the PAW website are good examples of making the political case. Of course none of this rules out the importance of specific fights such as the Royal Glam A&E one and school dinners.
Also there is a challenge of making initiatives more transitional: how to not just demand like supplicants offer rational proposals, but to start to create embryonic grass roots control.
I think that this an essential component of the best approach to elections from where we are now. Not that long ago it was standard best practice from communists and socialists in electoral contests where they weren't standing their own candidates
Well done Duncan and fully support what you are saying. I'm not at all sure about the Green Left in Cymru at the current time. Anyway this was one of the last statements from the People's Assembly Wales which covers much of the same ground and goes further in terms of a 'needs based comprehensive spending review'. https://pawalescymru.blogspot.com/2022/11/resisting-tory-austerity-in-wales-our_15.html You can see the history of the People's Assembly year after year trying to get Senedd members to fight austerity: https://pawalescymru.blogspot.com/ Much of this work has been supported by Cymru'n Codi and is embedded in our programme. We shall be looking to the left to take it forward in their parties if they are membes of one or directly in terms of supporting Cymru'n Codi: https://cymruncodi.substack.com/
Yes, the Green Left organisation in GPEW seems to have low activity, and I suspect it may have been affected by disagreements over trans rights. Either way, it does not seem to have grown much.
As an agitational demand, the needs-based review is a good one. However, I have some concerns about how effective that will be or how that might change the dynamic between the rank and file and the governing parties.
It's an interesting demand in Cymru as there actually was one in 2005 which led to a huge investment in public services over three years, tragically cut short by the austerity response to the financial crisis. By 2013 all had been lost and we were back to square one. However it translates the need to repair the damage of austerity and the pandemic into a case for all public services and not just specific cases such as NHS waiting lists. It also raises the key question of the needs of people and the planet and not profit. Anyway the letters to Senedd members and councillors on the PAW website are good examples of making the political case. Of course none of this rules out the importance of specific fights such as the Royal Glam A&E one and school dinners.
Also there is a challenge of making initiatives more transitional: how to not just demand like supplicants offer rational proposals, but to start to create embryonic grass roots control.
Just a correction, it was a :comprehensive spending review' in 2005 not a 'needs based'. An important difference. Sorry about that.