Life of the Party

13: Left Parties That Win: Lessons from the DSA and the Belgian Workers’ Party


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With the Your Party CEC elections in full swing, Jonas breaks down the current state of play in the party - and the gang despair at Your Party’s deteriorating culture of political debate. Would Your Party and the Greens be better if they were a little bit more like the Belgium Worker's Party (PTB), or the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? Joe challenges the assumptions of the British left, arguing that the PTB and DSA are very different organisations, and we need to analyse them on their own merits.


Reading


Between Autonomy and Control: Comparing the Democratic Socialist of America and the Belgian Workers Party - Joe Todd


The Breaking of the English Working Class - Jonas Patrick Marvin


We Found Love in a Hopeless Place - Gabriel Wynatt


The History and Practice of Political Police in Britain - Tony Bunyan


Parks and Houses For the People - Johan Pries


Your Party's Infantile Disorder - Sam Joyce

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