Get ready for conference.
Read our voting guide here!
Our wins
Through your hard work, we have already won key debates through the crowd editing tool and by applying pressure on the leadership. We have won on:
→ Branches will elect delegates to the Party’s Conferences
→ All-member votes and conference shall be sovereign
→ Branches will have access to members’ data for their area.
→ The right of recall has been extended to CEC members. → Removal of automatic seats for MPs on the CEC
→ A 50%+1 threshold has been set for the first national conference
Now we need to organise on conference floor.
Our documents
Our original document
Published in September, it outlines our initial ideas towards organising a socialist party.
Click the document to read it.
Our crowd editing document
We published this around the opening of the crowd editing tool to guide members on amending the four draft documents.
Our founding conference voting guide
This document is coming soon, it will guide sortioned delegates on the votes that matter.
Like hundreds of thousands of people across the UK, the news of Jeremy and Zarah announcing the Your Party founding conference has given us new hope. This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the left to build a home outside of Labour, without the vicious self-interested politics of Starmer and Blair.
We can create something more than just a political party, we can create a movement that promises to change Britain for good. But without first ensuring that our new political home is democratic, member-led and rooted in the needs of the people, we will not be able to promise genuine political change. The Democratic Bloc is a campaign getting ready to build for the conference, to put forward concrete democratic proposals and to bring the new would-be members together around a unifying, open and positive vision for how this new party should be run.
The Democratic Bloc is a campaign founded by a group of would-be members and will be led by anyone that wants to take part. We began with a set of core areas of focus that we thought will define the future of the new left party – 2025 conference, running the party, preparing for Parliament and local politics.
From that basis, we wrote a set of amendments that speak to the four documents published by the Your Party leadership.
Our amendments were taken to our members, they edited them and then ratified the amendments with a 100% accept vote. We are united, ready for founding conference.
What is The Democratic Bloc?
A once-in-a-generation chance for the people to find their voice and break from establishment politics.
Watch our launch video:
Are you ready to build the new party?
How we wrote our amendments
We are a democratic and open campaign that wants to engage as many prospective Your Party members as possible before the founding conference.
Our founding committee drafted a set of amendments that they took to the membership of The Democratic Bloc.
Over a week, our members edited our amendments. We then met and voted on those edits. Through that process we created a document that had a 100% accept vote from our members.
Our founding committee also received a mandate, with a 100% accept vote, for us to negotiate and composite our amendments with fellow pro-democracy organisations. We are now united and determined heading into founding conference.