Successful Socialist Party Yorkshire regional conference in Sheffield

Socialist Party Yorkshire regional conference – photo Yorkshire SP

A very well attended regional conference was held in Sheffield 3rd June at the Broomhill Centre. The hosts were the Sheffield branches, who have had a fantastic growth in membership over recent years and looked after the conference with great facilities and food and beverages.

Paul Thomas, Wakefield Socialist Party

The start was a short video which gave a useful overview of activities across the region and provided a solid foundation to the lead off by General Secretary Hannah Sell on Perspectives for Britain. Hannah delivered a concise and lively overview of the situation Britain finds itself in.

This started with a short overview of the global impacts surrounding the UK, financial turmoil, climate crisis and rising military conflicts.
Britain found themselves in a specially difficult conditions due to the weakness of British capitalism typified in the chaos of the Tory party no longer seen as safe pair of hands by the capitalists.

We are in the largest wave of union action doe some 30 years. This is at its early stages and there has been a great deal of learning from a low level. There is likely to be future waves which will be only stronger for the development. The Union struggles have raised the class continuous to its highest level in a generation.

It is clear the tories are hated, though Starmer is not loved though likely to win the next election. The prospect is for a very short honeymoon when things don’t get better under Labour.

This gives the Socialist Party a great opportunity to develop gain support, this is why party building is so important so we can influence ever more the direction of the class struggle.

The afternoon offered 3 workshops covering recruitment, supercharged stalls and TUSC. Each of these were well recieved and provided powerful tools for our working in the coming period. Beyond amazing appeals delivered over £1000 FF and increasing subs to support our ongoing efforts.

Lastly a great session lead by Iain Dalton on building the socialist party in Yorkshire. This gained input from all section within the region providing useful advice to help develop each area.

A fantastic engaged event delivering great learning and tools for all to take back into their branches.