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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Apr 15

Want to write for Prometheus? We have released our guidelines for submissions:

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Write for us | Prometheus

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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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 1d

In an unprecedented display of unity, seven groups on the left came together at The World Transformed Festival to agree on a programme for winning a member-led socialist Your Party.

Read their proposal below:

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For a member led, Socialist party | Prometheus

In an unprecedented display of unity, seven groups have declared an agreed programme in the fight for a socialist and member led Your Party

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 1d

🔥🔥🔥 Thank you all for coming to our panel yesterday. Thanks to The World Transformed Festival for the opportunity. We'll hopefully see you all next year!

In the meantime, we're looking for submissions on anti-oppression and anti-imperialist struggles, as well as reflections on this year's TWT.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 11d

The Labour Left and its MPs actively mislead the workers’ movement. Talal Hangari exposes the consequences of their politics.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 12d

What lessons can be gained from Wendy Goldman’s book 'Women, the State and Revolution'? Noemi Chiavassa engages in a critical reflection.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 19d

Critics of the recent deportations in the US fail to analyse their motivations, either overlooking the question entirely or attributing it to simplistic solutions. Antonio Garcia attempts to uncover the true motivations of the American bourgeoisie.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 20d

Are there any lessons from the 1917 Leeds Convention? Gabriel Salter argues it can guide the debates around new left parties in the present.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 24d

How can the exploited develop class consciousness? Raju J Das develops an approach to educational activity based on the Marxist worldview.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · 26d

How should Marxists engage with the new Left Party? The Marxist Unity Caucus, a faction within @rs21.bsky.social, argues for establishing a caucus fighting for an explicitly communist horizon.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Sep 10

What principles should communists hold firm to in the new party? Chris Strafford argues for working-class power and political independence.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

With the glacial pace of the development of Your Party rivalling the pace of the heat death of the universe, Archie Woodrow examines the progress so far, the inner factions and their politics.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Sep 2

Where should the new Left Party draw its strength from? Owen Brown argues that community unionism can serve as a working-class base.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

How do we engage with the new Left Party? As revolutionaries or as reformists? Morgan Rhys Powell engages with a recent A*CR perspective.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

🔥🔥 Prometheus will attend this year's The World Transformed Festival, details TBA.

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You can follow us on our social media and newsletter below for all our TWT updates and more:

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 28

How the new Left Party will be structured and what its purpose will be remain open questions. We republish a recent piece by @maxshanly.bsky.social that offers a framework for building a democratic and socialist party.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Reflecting on the historical sectarianism and voluntary broad leftism of the left in Britain, Thomas Bundy ponders how to change this.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16

In the final part of a two-part series, Will Searby connects racialization, class exploitation, and the reproduction of class relations.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 10

The glacial progress of the new left party is symptomatic of a wider crisis of leadership in the left in Britain. Archie Woodrow argues that it can only be solved by bringing the strategic discussions out into the open democratic arena.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 9

In a timely intervention around the new left party discussions in Britain, Daniel Hill argues that any new party must adopt democratic republican principles to discipline our elected officials and act as a collective body.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 7

Looking back at last week's fiasco regarding the Sultana/Corbyn new party of the left, Harry Holmes responds with a simple call: "Just Launch the Thing!"

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jun 27

In the first part of a two-part series, Will Searby examines the limitations of liberal racial politics and how the state influences racial and class relations.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thomas Donnelly examines the programmes of three Communist Parties in Britain and compares them with the programmes written by Marx and Engels.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Talal H examines the Green Party and its current leadership, finding a lack of both having and advocating a coherent theory of politics.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · May 31

Angry Workers argue that any party building should focus on contemporary class composition to identify the role of communist political organisation.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · May 21

Joe Todd elaborates on a plan for any new left party or the Greens, focusing on base building, democracy, populism and socialist strategy.
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