is that not just The Left?
Suggests its a question of presentation. Do you have a clear idea of what "appealing to a 21st century crowd as opposed to a 20th century one" means? Im not sure.
For starters, dispense with rhetoric which the left has used without change for decades, with a result which includes "left of Labour alternatives" which fared abysmally (even if said groups claim those results as a victory). One thing you have to give the Green Party credit for, it ditched a lot of that tired dogma and appealed to many more people than any other left-of-Labour group, it's just a pity their principles were more to do with middle-class liberalism than genuine class struggle. I still have some brief hope that the left can properly gain traction and relevance now that Corbyn has caused lefties old and new to flock to the Labour Party and Momentum, but I am generally pessimistic on that front, a lot of the habits of the old left die hard, with infighting over points of dogma the course of the day.
Confess witch!
Are you or have you ever been a member of the Socialist Workers Party?
When I was in Left Unity a friend (who is still a member) and I were discussing how we as a party needed to spread the message on social media, and use memes to get the message out to a wider base. Unfortunately we were fighting a lot of inertia with a lot of the "old left" in the party who didn't get social media. However I did my best to make my local branch's Facebook page relevant and try and present it in a way that would appeal to people beyond the established left, before getting disillusioned with Left Unity for various reasons (including seemingly lacking any purpose and direction after Corbyn became Labour leader, and the endless faultlines on various issues where people would just not budge).
confessions are never spent. you're thinking of convictions.
The left already has its "alternative media" which skews the facts in order to spin a message, The Canary for example is pretty much to Corbyn what Breitbart is to Trump. The problem is most of these sites are Clickbait Central, and their sensationalist reporting and embracing of all the worst aspects of identity politics is very offputting to those outside of the left milleu (not to mention plenty inside it). What is needed is calm, factual reporting, which doesn't infantalise its readership nor tries to use distortion and cherry picking of facts to push a narrative which can easily be picked apart as a result.
At the time I voted "yes, join" on that poll. What a difference nine years makes (my love affair with the Greens ended around 2012 when they behaved like any other party when given the chance to run Brighton council), at least I'm now older and wiser.
aulder anyway
Left UNity DID produce lots of good memes, even from their FB main page...they were widely liked and shared IIRC.
They were in fact likely what this thread is about - consciously formed to be "a UKIP of the Left".
CLAPHAM?future alt-left discussions should be modelled on the clapham ultras thread
hahabugger i do that 50% of the time
When I was involved it was a very exciting project to get involved in. Unfortunately there were plenty of bitter arguments over the strangest of issues, the shenanigans of the CPGB did not help much, and when Corbyn surprised everyone by only going and bloody well winning the Labour leadership election it ran out of steam, most of those still in LU are there because they think Labour will never be revolutionary enough for them, or due to being previously expelled from the Labour Party for being too left wing back in the 80s.Left UNity DID produce lots of good memes, even from their FB main page...they were widely liked and shared IIRC.
I thought the LU project was a good one - great party democracy + memes
