Political parties - Are you member of a party?

[onepunchmachinegun]

I hear a lot of people talking about what they believe in. And now I'd like to use this occasion to to hear if anybody is actually doing anything about it...

I'm a member of Global Action (An communist/anarchistic movement) and SUF (The socialistic youth front)...

[Dawood]

I am not a member of any organization, but I am considering joining the Swedish organization RKU (Revolutinär Kommunistisk Ungdom, meaning Revolutionary Communist Youth).
Another organization I am considering is Ung Vänster (which means Young Leftists).
However so far I have no joined any of them, because there is in both organizations some little thing that I disagree with that I cant stand for.

[Ian]

I'm in the democratic socialist party in Australia (probably the most active marxist group, IMHO)

[Dawood]

Quote: from Ian Rocks on 2:19 am on April 19, 2003
I'm in the democratic socialist party in Australia (probably the most active marxist group, IMHO)

The Swedish democratic socialists have removed socialism from their political agenda. :angry:
Of course they have been in power here in Sweden for like 70 years so I guess they have lost the revolutionary spirit, even though they was reformists and not revolutionaries even from the beginning.

[Pete]

Political parties can only make so much change, and that change can be quickly undone by the capitalists if they regain power. Permanent change is required, not temporary measures. Any political party can only go so far in making the change. The best bet for an industrialized nation is to militarize your self by joining one of the multinational unions. Talk to RedCelt about it, he knows more than me.

[Sensitive]

I'm not a member of a Marxist party yet. I'll probably join the CPUSA at some point though.

[Sirion]

Im a member of a norwegian party called the red electoral alliance, which, as the name says, is not really a party. The lagest party of the alliance is AKPml
(Workers Communist Party, the Marxist-Leninists, Arbeidernes Kommunistparti Marxist-Leninstene in Nowegian)

[ComradeRiley]

Hello, I live in England
I'm with the Socialist party

www.socialistparty.org.uk

[onepunchmachinegun]

It's also a little bullshit that I'm in SUF. I fell much more at home with Globale Rødder (In England: People's Global Action). Globale Rødder is for a revolution in Denmark and globally, so I'm kinda like a spy for Globale Rødder in SUF... Call it whatever you like...

[RedCeltic]

I'm in New York... and Part of the Upstate New York Branch of the IWW (not a political party but an anti-capitalist union)

And I'm active in the Albany County Green Party. They are actually the only leftist party on the ballot in New York.

[antieverything]

Just so you know, the CPUSA endorses Democratic candidates instead of running their own.

[Anonymous]

I am a proud member of JCP... (portuguese communist youth)


you may think that because of the Youth part this organisation as litle political strenght... now thats were you are wrong...

PCP´s strenght comes straight off JCP...
we are the future hope for our country´s people...
we proclaim ourselfs Marxist-leninists!

we make protests..
strikes...
riots...
and civil disobedience...

even though PCP always *****es about the last two we do it still...

[RedCeltic]

Your party shouldn't ***** about the youth getting involved in civil disobedience. When people get a bit older and have families, the end up not doing the things they would want to do for fear of endangering their family’s future.

My dad for example, had a family to worry about since Vietnam, but has recently retired. He said he was pissed about this war with Iraq and was even more pissed that world wide protests didn't do anything to stop it. The man is in his sixties, and says that if the United States goes into Syria, he will be determined to get himself arrested in civil disobedience. lol... he says he'll break into a federal building and chain himself to something. :)

(I think he always wanted to chain himself to something ever since some GreenPeace activist did that in the '80s.)


I believe political parties should be active all year long, and not just during elections. They should focus more on direct action, civil disobedience, and helping programs in the community like food not bombs for example.

[Malvinas Argentinas]

Im from Argentina, and 17, difficult for being member of a party. Stilll i feel its useless to join anyone of it. First, major parties are not a good option(PJ, UCR, etc), and leftists parties are minorities and they are very divided, I feel it impossible that left parties would have any influence in the government with the present sistem. I dont believe in political parties as a solution, i believe in the movement of masses, without being liderated by a corrupt party, but liderated by peolple who are not interested in politics or winning the elections or getting some seats in the legislative power. FUCK POLITICAL PARTIES IN ARGENTINA

[Geddan]

In Sweden we have different groups, and I am not a member of any, yet. The groups that exist are (with youth clubs in parenthesis):

Left Party (UV): The largest organization which is democratic socialist, it was communist until 1991 or something. Not my favourites...

KPMLr (RKU), the biggest of the communist parties. It is what people would call "stalinist", pretty orthodox too.

SKP (SKU), "stalinist" too.

Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (EK), a trotskyist organization and member of the CWI.

Socialistiska Partiet (US), trotskyist and member of the Fourth International.

SAC (SUF), our syndicalist union (the biggest in the world I think).

The reason I haven't joined anyone yet is that I don't really know whether I am a "trotskyist" or "stalinist" or something else.
I am a marxist-leninist, but further than that I don't know. Perhaps you could help me...?

[Bernardine Dohrn]

President of a Green Party organization. I have come to find that the Democratic Socialists in my area are actually a front for many neoconservatives.

[thursday night]

I am completely indepedent, though I have considered membership in the New Democrat Party and the Communist Party of Canada Marxist-Leninist (CPCML).

[praxis1966]

Quote: from RedCeltic on 3:33 am on April 21, 2003
Your party shouldn't ***** about the youth getting involved in civil disobedience. When people get a bit older and have families, the end up not doing the things they would want to do for fear of endangering their family’s future.

My dad for example, had a family to worry about since Vietnam, but has recently retired. He said he was pissed about this war with Iraq and was even more pissed that world wide protests didn't do anything to stop it. The man is in his sixties, and says that if the United States goes into Syria, he will be determined to get himself arrested in civil disobedience. lol... he says he'll break into a federal building and chain himself to something. :)

(I think he always wanted to chain himself to something ever since some GreenPeace activist did that in the '80s.)


I believe political parties should be active all year long, and not just during elections. They should focus more on direct action, civil disobedience, and helping programs in the community like food not bombs for example.

lol... Environmentalists are forever chaining themselves to one thing or another; trees, bulldozers, each other...

Incidentally, I'm a member of the Socialist Party of Florida. It's one of two parties here, the other being the Socialist Worker's Party.

[apathy maybe]

I would recomend that you don't join any political party unless you agree compleatly with their stated aims. If they don't have stated aims, what good are they?
Also wait until you are about 25 or so and have though enough about it. You don't want to join some party then 6 months later change your views and quit. you'll have it hanging over you for the rest of your life.
After all who was it who said, that "if your not a communist by 18 you have no heart and if your a communist after your 18 you have no brain"?

[apathy maybe]

No that I agree necessarily with that statement :)

[SwedishCommie]

Im a member of RKU (Revolutionär Kommunistisk Ungdom. translated Revolutionary Communist Youth)

And Daewood What is it about RKU you disagree with?
And Ung Vänster Sucks!

[Organic Revolution]

i am a member or the chicago socialist party.

[Blackberry]

I'm not a member of any political party. I am a member of a youth activist group, Resistance. (http://www.resistance.org.au)

Next year, however, I will be joining the IWW, and will look out for an anarchist-based activist group.

[jjack]

I'm a member of the CPUSA.

I'm also interested in the Alaskan independence movement and am trying to form a party, kind of like a socialist version of the Alaskan Independence Party. (http://www.akip.org)

[Cypriot]

I am a member of a leftish organisation called 'Left Wing' and this organisation doesn't belong to any party. I have some disagreamments but I cannot leave because the other leftish parties are not as right as we are.