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Prometheus - A Journal for Socialism and Democracy
Joined July 2020
Want to write for Prometheus? We have released our guidelines for submissions:
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Our submission guidelines are here to help prospective writers for Prometheus. We are interested in any pieces that fit these guidelines.
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What exactly should it do, and how should it do this? How should it be structured and make decisions? How should it organise locally, work with trade unions and form electoral coalitions which win? TWT 25 will be putting these questions at the forefront of the festival, creating
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🚨 THE NEW LEFT PARTY at TWT25 With politics once again on the move, the formation of a new left party marks the latest in a tentative left regroupment since the catastrophic defeat of 2019. Could this be the vehicle we need to meet the myriad demands of our time - fascism,
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What principles should communists hold firm to in the new party? Chris Strafford argues for working-class power and political independence. https://t.co/tu0OZKwi06
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With the glacial pace of the development of Your Party rivalling the pace of the heat death of the universe, Archie Woodrow (@SamuraiApology) examines the progress so far, the inner factions and their politics. https://t.co/4NEIpWscTL
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Where should the new Left Party draw its strength from? Owen Brown argues that community unionism can serve as a working-class base. https://t.co/SYqZBoTgiG
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How do we engage with the new Left Party? As revolutionaries or as reformists? Morgan Rhys Powell engages with a recent A*CR perspective. https://t.co/wP46iHvxWN
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🔥🔥 Prometheus will attend this year's The World Transformed Festival, details TBA. You can follow us on our social media and newsletter below for all our TWT updates and more.
More than 50 groups from across the movement will gather at TWT25 to debate and shape the future of left strategy. This collective work is urgent - and you need to be a part of it. Get your ticket now: https://t.co/R82L69Ur1g And read the callout below ⬇️ 🧵
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With a new Left Party on the horizon, how do we practise our democratic principles and restore the power of Socialist politics? Talah Hangari argues in favour of open and permanent factions. https://t.co/PEj3XdR2tj
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As the Socialist Party expands nationally, Edith Fischer takes aim at the ‘Broad Party’ form for reformism and state loyalism, advancing the line of the Mass Party against both ‘Broad’ and ‘New Type’ parties. https://t.co/B3AI4cEkb4
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Broad parties are common across the global left, but their success has been limited. Why? Edith Fischer writes that we need a revolutionary mass party, not a broad party, to advance the Communist c…
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Communist University 2025 - starting today! A week of stimulating debate and comradeship. Register today: https://t.co/vem2p0u28x Can't be there in person? Register on Zoom: https://t.co/Z7B1SE5EFd
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How the new Left Party will be structured and what its purpose will be remain open questions. We republish a recent piece by @maxshanly that offers a framework for building a democratic and socialist party. https://t.co/WM7k2xqVda
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delighted to have my piece on ‘broad’ parties and sects out today. we need a democratic republic in our lifetimes or we’re (quite literally) cooked
Reflecting on the historical sectarianism and voluntary broad leftism of the left in Britain, Thomas Bundy ponders how to change this. https://t.co/v5WbF3ZgHV
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Reflecting on the historical sectarianism and voluntary broad leftism of the left in Britain, Thomas Bundy ponders how to change this. https://t.co/v5WbF3ZgHV
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A friend recently described us as the ‘most tedious publication on the British left’ and you know what? Yes! Guilty! Wear it with pride!
Been really proud to be involved in @Prometheus_Jrnl in recent weeks - we’ve published some great pieces
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We’ve got more in the pipeline! If you ever want to write, always happy to chat - we want to develop a new generation of militant writing today 🫡
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And @SamuraiApology on the wider crisis of leadership (he’s clearly been reading his Transitional Programme):
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The glacial progress of the new left party signals a wider crisis of our leaders, solvable only through open and democratic strategic debate.
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Then, in the context of the new party’s ’non-launch’ myself on the need for a membership launch as soon as possible, rather than a nebulous alliance or federal dithering: https://t.co/PtcyVcIaig
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Harry Holmes looks back on last week's fiasco regarding the new Sultana-Corbyn party and responds with a simple call: "Just Launch the Thing!"
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This from Dan Hind on communist power and how we structure our projects on a democratic-republican basis: https://t.co/4grGUfylxR
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Daniel Hind argues that any new party must adopt democratic republican principles to discipline our elected officials.
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