Workers' Party

**Workers' Party** - is a far-left party in the Southend that declares its adherence to principles of communism. The Workers' Party party was established in 1985 after the collapse of the Communist Party of Southend.

Party is a part of a broader left-wing populist electoral alliance called Patriotic Front, where the party participates in elections together with Southend Social Democratic Workers' Party, Communist Party of Southend (Maoist current), and Juche Union of Southend.

## Ideology

After the Communist Party of Southend collapsed, the Workers' Party was established by mainstream politicians of the former party. The Workers' Party generally represents communism in a broader sense by giving a platform to various communist movements, such as Marxism-Leninism, De Leonism, Titoism, and Luxemburgism. Such a variety of currents of thought within the party led to the creation of several internal party platforms that sometimes get at odds with each other even at the level of the parliamentary group. Internal ideological disputes were a reason for the dissolution of the original Communist Party of Southend.

Current internal party platforms within the Workers' Party are:

* ***Leninists*** - one of the biggest internal party platforms that follow the original form of Leninist current of thought, while rejecting the Soviet synthesis of Marxism-Leninism;
* ***Vanguardists*** - large internal party platform that follows an anti-revisionist form of Marxism-Leninism, members of the platform are openly sympathetic to various anti-revisionist currents of thought within Marxism-Leninism, that includes Stalinism, Maoism, and Hoxhaism.
* ***Red Southend*** - this group within the party largely is left-wing populist and left-wing nationalist, generally members of this group tend to be particularly conservative on social matters. The current chair of the Workers' Party Sinclair Power represents the Red Southend group.
* ***Reformists*** - is an internal party platform that gathered supporters of market socialism, such as supporters of Titoism.
* ***Progressists*** - members of this group generally support an anti-Leninist and libertarian outlook on communism, which Daniel De Leon proposed. This group tends to be the most rebellious against the party leadership.
* ***Revolutionary socialist democrats*** - mostly comprised of the supporters of Luxemburgism and Council Communism. This internal party platform is generally anti-parliamentarian and members of this group often participate in parliamentary abstentionism actions.
* Several smaller groups within the party are centered around currents of thought of the communist movement.

## Criticism

The workers' Party is often criticized by members of the communist and socialist movements in the Southend. The major criticism of the party is targeted at the party's significant factionalism. The chair of the Revolutionary Socialists Homer Namiku commented on the issue: "The Workers' Party whilst being the biggest far-left force in this country spends its all time and effort on not promoting equality, but on endless internal disagreements and never-ending theoretical debate." Another point of discontent about the party from left-wing forces is targeted at the Workers' Party employed populist rhetoric and electoral cooperation in the Patriotic Front with other populist and social conservative parties. One of the co-chairs of Socialists Christian Alexander criticized Workers' Party cooperation with social conservative populists by saying: "If these reactionaries from Patriotic Front under the guidance of Workers' Party ever get the fullness of power, I am convinced, that we will end up in a totalitarian state that will bring million times more suffering to working-class than capitalism ever could."