Video – Socialists and the Mass Organisations

Published: 13 Nov 2014
Intro by: TSN Editor

At our recent conference in Bratislava we held a session on our document ‘Socialists and the Mass Organisations’. The session was introduced by our website editor, Pat Byrne, and here is a video of Pat’s speech recorded and edited by our Membership Officer, Tim Horvath.

Pat’s speech on Youtube: ‘Socialists and the Mass Organisations‘

For those who can’t access YouTube there is another version available here:

Unfortunately, the synchronisation between video and audio when played back via Vimeo is not perfect but it’s good enough.

Socialists and the Mass Organisations

This document deals with the question of how socialists should relate to the mass organisations of working people. It argues that socialists need to be active wherever working people are.
... That means that we
should work in all their organisations, including both social democratic and broad left parties. In doing so we should strive to democratise and energise these organisations, uniting them together in a positive struggle to defend our
conditions and to transform society along democratic
socialist lines.
... The document correctly
forecast the shift to the left that has now taken place in the British Labour Party.
... The pamphlet was agreed by an international meeting of the Socialist Network and is now in its second edition.

Video – Socialists and the Mass Organisations

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