Transform: The latest "new party of the Left.

[Dom Traynor]

Quite Interesting blog post her about Weekly Worker/CPGB:

At the Chamberlain’s Court

Readers may be aware of Weekly Worker, the paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Provisional Committee ( a grandiose title for a tiny grouping). It was once popular as a definite go-to rea…

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I've always assumed they're the kind of grouping that can dribble on for years with 30 highly invested nutters.

 

[Serge Forward]

Out of interest Eric Jarvis were there any OCISA/Tranform candidates in the recent local elections.

Also, does anyone know who this lot are?

 

[ska invita]

Out of interest Eric Jarvis were there any OCISA/Tranform candidates in the recent local elections.

Also, does anyone know who this lot are?

i was speculating that RISE might be continuity enough is enough , what with TU links and the font and colours being very similiar
ETA oh and just Signing Up being about the size of it

 

[Eric Jarvis]

Out of interest Eric Jarvis were there any OCISA/Tranform candidates in the recent local elections.

Also, does anyone know who this lot are?

OCISA exists solely to ensure there is a suitable candidate to stand against Starmer in Holborn St Pancras at the general election, and that the candidate wins and Stramer has to go back to being a lawyer. Some Transform members stood as independent candidates in some local election seats. The part itself doesn't have a large enough membership to justify standing candidates as Transform, though that will change by the general election when there should be at least 3/4 as well as a few Transform linked independent Parliamentary candidates as a minimum. The party has only existed for 6 months.

 

[hitmouse]

Also, does anyone know who this lot are?

That's a new one on me. They could be this new Counterfire split we've been promised, but then that website's vague enough that they could also be a lot of other things?

 

[belboid]

they really should have chosen a better name. A quick google for Rise Movement brings up opportunities to invest with power and passion, a yoga and kickboxing class, a moving company and a 'revolutionary alliance of ministries that recognize the ultimate source of power to transform the world: surrender to GOD'

 

[hitmouse]

Well, probably better than if they went with Rise Above Movement, anyway.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

So this lot have launched their election campaign, which seems to be another crowdfunder.

Judging by the Twitter feed they are supporting independent candidates rather than running their own.

 

[hitmouse]

Since I can't be bothered starting a thread for them, suppose here is as good a place as any to mention that Communist Future are apparently planning to stand in Manchester Central. They had a manifesto launch at Peste, which is... hard to explain if you've not been there, but the short version is it really doesn't feel like somewhere you'd go to launch a project that you were hoping would have mass appeal.
Screenshots of the publicity might convey some of the vibe:

 

[inva]

26 likes though

 

[hitmouse]

Some quite nice fonts too.

 

[zedr]

the popular font?

 

[The39thStep]

Looks like a 4AD tribute act

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

So this lot have launched their election campaign, which seems to be another crowdfunder.

Judging by the Twitter feed they are supporting independent candidates rather than running their own.

At time of writing (it may change) Transform is standing two candidates under their own name (in Newton Aycliffe and Bishop Auckland) one under the banner of Liverpool Community Independents (that were one of the groups founding Transform) and one in Grantham (running as in independent as she is a current independent councillor.

In addition, Transform is curating a “Left List” of independent and socialist candidates that are in general agreement with the party’s core principles.

Similar initiatives are being run by Collective and Assemble, both of which Transform cooperates with.

Initial list (a revised larger list due this week):

 

[redsquirrel]

Looks like a 4AD tribute act

Well that's got them my vote then!

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Transform Party has updated its Left List with an additional 13 constituencies covered. The 33 candidates now endorsed include left independents, climate activists, representatives of community groups and small political parties. We need more alternative voices who are free to actually campaign for real change (as opposed to simply plastering the word 'change' onto campaign literature) and who can hold the big parties to account.
Transform plans to release new lists every Monday during the election - next week will probably include TUSC candidates as their list was formalised last night.

 

[PR1Berske]

I knew the name sounded familiar

 

[belboid]

Transform Party has updated its Left List with an additional 13 constituencies covered. The 33 candidates now endorsed include left independents, climate activists, representatives of community groups and small political parties. We need more alternative voices who are free to actually campaign for real change (as opposed to simply plastering the word 'change' onto campaign literature) and who can hold the big parties to account.
Transform plans to release new lists every Monday during the election - next week will probably include TUSC candidates as their list was formalised last night.

Oh goodie. They’re supporting the sole SWP candidate. Excellent judgement.

 

[The39thStep]

Oh goodie. They’re supporting the sole SWP candidate. Excellent judgement.

Maxine Bowler?

 

[belboid]

Maxine Bowler?

In my bloody seat.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

To be fair, Bowler is standing as an Independent on a pro Palestine platform rather than for her party, but I can see the problem have with her being on that list due to the SWP’s history.

 

[belboid]

Not sure why that’s a better thing. It’s just a dishonest one. The SWP hate the WPB and have given up on TUSC (and I can’t blame them for either), but they haven’t got any other project to build. Bowler didn’t discuss it with other activists to see if she’d be a good candidate, she just announced it.

It’s nothing but ego, to soothe the big mouthed bullshitter.

 

[hitmouse]

Are the SWP and RCP both just running one "independent" candidate in one seat, then?

Also, had a bit of an idle look to see what transform's online presence is like - if I search "transform left list" I get lots of pages with advice about CSS, if I search for "transform" on instagram I get various local World Transformed groups (maybe this one's a feature not a bug, maybe the name was chosen to make it sound like they had some connection to all that), a performance festival called Transform Leeds and an online magazine of narrative essays called Transformation Narratives. Oh, and Transform Dental but I'm not sure if they're directly connected either.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Not sure why that’s a better thing. It’s just a dishonest one. The SWP hate the WPB and have given up on TUSC (and I can’t blame them for either), but they haven’t got any other project to build. Bowler didn’t discuss it with other activists to see if she’d be a good candidate, she just announced it.

It’s nothing but ego, to soothe the big mouthed bullshitter.

To be fair, most people who are not naive, ignorant, bigots or shills for certain authoritarian regimes hate the WPGB…

 

[The39thStep]

Are the SWP and RCP both just running one "independent" candidate in one seat, then?

Also, had a bit of an idle look to see what transform's online presence is like - if I search "transform left list" I get lots of pages with advice about CSS, if I search for "transform" on instagram I get various local World Transformed groups (maybe this one's a feature not a bug, maybe the name was chosen to make it sound like they had some connection to all that), a performance festival called Transform Leeds and an online magazine of narrative essays called Transformation Narratives. Oh, and Transform Dental but I'm not sure if they're directly connected either.

Think so . I follow Alex Callinos and she's the only candidate that he has tweeted.

Also found this which might be useful info on far left groups in the UK election. ( We've got a Maoist group standing in the Euro elections overhere.)

 

[hitmouse]

Think so . I follow Alex Callinos and she's the only candidate that he has tweeted.

Also found this which might be useful info on far left groups in the UK election. ( We've got a Maoist group standing in the Euro elections overhere.)

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Hmm, just had a look and the Communist League reckon there'll be two constituencies where the working class will be able to vote for revolutionary socialism and total unflinching support for Israel, Manchester Rusholme and London Tottenham. The Militant looks as beautifully beyond-batshit as ever:

 

[The39thStep]

Hmm, just had a look and the Communist League reckon there'll be two constituencies where the working class will be able to vote for revolutionary socialism and total unflinching support for Israel, Manchester Rusholme and London Tottenham. The Militant looks as beautifully beyond-batshit as ever:
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Best of luck to them in Rusholme , they'll be slung out of the first restaurant door they go into before they've started on the poppadum and lime chutney

 

[belboid]

Are the SWP and RCP both just running one "independent" candidate in one seat, then?

Just checked on the electoral commission site. The RCP probably can’t register under that name because it is too similar to the already registered Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

Socialist Workers Party is available. But they know they’d do shit under their own name so are pretending to be something bigger.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Think so . I follow Alex Callinos and she's the only candidate that he has tweeted.

Also found this which might be useful info on far left groups in the UK election. ( We've got a Maoist group standing in the Euro elections overhere.)

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How do they know how tall the candidates are?

 

[The39thStep]

How do they know how tall the candidates are?

Biometric data off the citizens cards