Questions for the SP

We all know Socialism wouldn’t be the same without the Sparts. Here are our questions for you this year:

1. What should socialists do at Your Party’s founding conference?

2. Why wasn’t the Birmingham bin strike escalated?

3. Should socialists support Andrea Egan?

4. Is Mamdani’s election a victory for the workers movement?

5. Should socialists be for a two-state solution in Palestine?

Our answers:

Spart answers

1. Fight for clear socialist politics. Sultana’s speech in Liverpool is a good starting point.

   Read more: “Politics first!”

2. Because Sharon Graham refused to do so. And most socialists, including the SP, refused to build an opposition to the Unite bureaucracy.

   Read more: “The truth about the Birmingham bin strike”

3. No. She doesn’t even oppose the Starmer government. Being slightly more left-wing isn’t enough to warrant support.

   Read more: “For Revolutionary Work in the Trade Unions”

4. No. Mamdani is a Democrat. His main purpose is to give the party a facelift. Socialists must fight in the DSA to break it from the Democrats.

   Read more: “How to Avoid Another AOC Situationship”

5. No. There can be no justice without the Palestinians’ right to return to their land. We must fight for a single socialist state which respects the national rights of all, and to break Israeli workers from Zionism.

   Read more: “Marxists & Palestine: 100 Years of Failure”