The constitution of the Socialist Labour Party was the result of six months' intensive discussion, involving all these parties who now want an alliance - the SWP, the Socialist Party, etc. It also included members of the Communist Party of Britain and a number of people from the Labour Party, and other left organisations. We sought to create an inclusive party that would embrace everybody on the left who was, firstly, committed to overthrowing capitalism and replacing it with a socialist system of society and, secondly, prepared to undertake to leave their political baggage at the door and stop this nonsense of being in two camps at once. The reason that it never came to full fruition is that none of them were prepared to give up their own political party. They only ever wanted an alliance.
Alliances look good on paper, but are in reality an unmitigated disaster.
But he piles all the blame for this failure on those who rejected his anti-democratic, authoritarian constitution, with its bans and proscriptions inherited from the Labour Party. Ours is the only party that has the possibility of building a force in Britain for changing the system under which we live. The SA and SSP combined have thousands of active supporters. The SLP is down to around 300 inactive members. This smacks to me of the last desperate attempts to hold together the remnants of the SLP in the face of the SA's success.