As Your Party hits a stumbling block, grassroots democracy organisation Assemble is stepping up to build a genuine party of the people. And it means one that can win for Palestine, for the climate, and for the people instead of the billionaires.

However, to do so, Assemble will need all hands on deck. It aims to raise £150,000 to train 10,000 volunteers that can run people’s assemblies across the country.

Assemble to the rescue as Your Party falters

Assemble is the sister organisation to Youth Demand and Just Stop Oil that delivers grassroots democracy. It has been in talks with Your Party for months. Crucially, it has been organising on the ground, preparing to deliver a huge training programme to turn local supporters into organisers and facilitators that can run mass assemblies all over the country.

Now the leaders of Your Party, Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn, are at odds, and only just beginning a process of reconciliation between them. Nevertheless, the people are demanding the project goes ahead. Given this, there is no time to wait.

There is a proposal called ‘Our Party’ which suggests a way forward. It calls to:

implement the founding process of regional assemblies and [democratic sortition] Conference as was originally published by Your Party.

Supporters of Your Party can all agree on this – and Assemble is in service to make it happen. In fact, it’s exactly what the group has been doing for the past 16 months with huge success.

Building the movement from the bottom-up

To achieve this, Assemble plans to galvanise over 10,000 people to help facilitate huge regional deliberative meetings. Already, Assemble has been in discussions with Your Party to create the training program to mass upskill the movement and build it from the bottom-up.

When the centre hesitates, the Left must organise. Assemble says that the “deep and empowering” training programme will cost £150,000:

to infuse the movement with a course of more than five trainings on facilitation, community outreach, anti-oppression, assembly culture and assembly organising.

It’s why it has now launched a crowdfund, so that supporters of Your Party can help make its plan a reality.

Importantly, the group has noted that:

All funds will go to building a democratic organisation owned by its members.

As soon as crowdfunds come in, it plans to spend it on:

1. A ‘Mega Training Weekend’ in October. This will involve 500 trained and 500 trainers
2. An online training course. Assemble will run regular trainings on facilitation, how to run an assembly, community outreach, respect – and more.
3. In-person regional training days. These will train 10,000 facilitators to host regional meetings and listen to the input of 60,000 people.
4. Assemblies at universities with Youth Demand, Your Party meetings, and more.

Your Party supporters: Assemble!

Assemble has already kickstarted the training programme. So, supporters can sign up now if they’re ready to tear down and rebuild the UK’s broken politics brick by brick.

The current programme is as follows:

1. Culture of Inclusion & Respect Workshop: Mondays 7pm.
2. Facilitator Training: Tuesdays 7pm.
3. How to Run an Assembly training: Alternate Wednesdays 7pm.
4. How to mobilise training: Alternate Wednesdays 7pm.
5. Building the movement intro Call: Thursdays 7pm.

Your Party supporters can help Assemble continue its extensive and ambitious programme to help the party hit the ground running by donating to its crowdfund here.

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By The Canary

This post was originally published on Canary.