Statement on "Your Party" Membership "Launch" (small fixes)

This is a proposed party statement on the debacle today after Zarah Sultana opened membership early, which itself followed an equally "unauthorised" release of a timetable by Corbyn's camp the day before. Neither release was signed off on by both "co-leaders", as had apparently been agreed.

Statement draft:

We have previously stood behind Zarah Sultana's solidarity with the trans community after recent remarks by MPs associated with Jeremy Corbyn and the new party for now known as "Your Party"; so first we note that it is alarming to see what appears to be a fracture in the new party along those exact same lines.

We are alarmed also to have seen various other figures associated with Jeremy Corbyn in recent days make remarks that seem to edge away from solidarity with trans people - at best - and towards an overtly hostile position.

This, we stress, is the peril of authoritarianism and centralism.

This moment requires not authority and unity, but plurality and inclusion.

We need a movement which demands not obedience, but channels our differences like a rainbow of righteous rage, for it is only in fully hearing one another - in meeting one another where we truly stand - that understanding and trust can grow. Understanding and trust are key to building a movement which reacts with solidarity as an instinct, as a first recourse.

We need a movement which understands mutual aid and support.

Such a movement has no space for "boys clubs". It has no space for sexism, nor Zionism, nor for homophobia, or transphobia, nor racism of any kind. There must be no safe space for bigotry to argue for the power to bully.

It must have no space for these things firstly because they make us unsafe, and secondly, but equally importantly, because we can never have liberation until that is so. None of us can be free until all of us are free.

So it is that we urge the new party's "top table" - though it should not have such a thing - to remember everyone else. Remember those who are looking forwards to winter with fear. Remember those who could not heat and eat last year, and who are even worse off today. Remember the trans kids who so nearly had the good fortune to grow up in a world that accepted them, but now must face one in which rancid lies are told about them and their peers every single day in the media.

We say you have two choices: remember all of us, and forget your ambitions - or sink into the swamp and have no greater hope than to be a rocky foundation for the next thrust towards freedom for the rest of us.