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IUAFS endorses Your Party Grassroots Left slate

 Recently, International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) voted to give its endorsement to the Grassroots Left slate in Your Party, the new party initiated last July by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn. IUAFS is a United Front campaign of Communist and Socialist groups and individuals who mobilise against NATO's Ukraine proxy war in explicit solidarity with the people of Donbass and Crimea, and the oppressed Russian-speaking population of Ukraine more generally. We solidarise particuarly with the struggle of that population against the powerful Nazi trends that NATO has bankrolled and armed in Ukraine particuarly since the Maidan coup in 2014 - hence we support Russia's war aims of the liberation of the Russian-speaking population in the South-East from Nazi oppression, and the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine.
Your Party members are now voting in its first elections for the Central Executive Committee - the party leadership, and what is actutally happening is a faction fight between a strongly subjectively socialist and working class left wing, that is the Grassroots Left slate, led by Zarah Sultana, and the less radical, arguably left-populist The Many slate, headed by Jeremy Corbyn. On Ukraine, within the GL slate and its supporters, there are a range of views on the actual conflict in Ukraine. But a key plank of the Grassroots Left's programme is clear opposition to NATO:

"4. For a clear programme of anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism and pro peace. We oppose militarism and stand with the oppressed against the oppressors. We support the Palestinian people and reject successive British governments' collusion with Israel. We support immediate withdrawal from NATO that only offers profits to the merchants of death and makes the world less safe, when this money should be spent on schools, hospitals and wider society".

The Corbyn led TM has no such demand. So whatever criticism our various components may have of the overall political stance of the GL components, and YP itself - we cannot have a unified view on this as we are ourselves a united front -  there is enough agreement on this for IUAFS to take a side. Support the Grassroots Left campaign to lead Your Party!

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