[TT] SFP's Constitution - raising awareness
Leon Gutierrez
Greetings to everyone! In Tonight's article, I'd like to bring to the surface, the Constitution of the SFP. The reason is that I have noticed some new faces and activity, so I wondered how many people in the party - especially returning and new players, are aware of the Constitution?
For myself, I never really read it until recently and now it's given me a big insight into a lot things, such as helping me define what the end goals are for any projects I do. For myself, knowing about this Constituion and actually reading it, gave me a deeper sense of appreciation for the party and the past party president's who've put time into working on this document and I am sure it has an important value for any members curious, or in the Socialist Freedom Party.
So Did you know about the Socialist Freedom Party's constitution and for the more senior members, how will have you understood it ? The Socialist Freedom Party’s constitution is a pivotal document that all members should not be ignorant about. It is what defines us and grounds our party work, our political and economical objectivity - a guide to say the least. If you have always wondered “what is the SFP views on X” read the constitution first, and you’ll probably find, figure out, or work out an answer. If none of that still didn’t satisfy then definitely ask!
The point of this article is to simply bring awareness to a document that I think should not simply be left to discuss in the forums, but that by making it publicly announced, we could gather more eyes and possibly find members who want to make a change to it or understand their role through it.
So where can you find a copy of the SFP constitution? Well on our web forum Socialist Party Forum. Years of work by many different forms of the Revolutionary Commitee and past party presidents have gone into redefining, changing or clarifying aspects of the constitution to enable the party to move forward with clear objectivity on most aspects.
Read this for anyone wanting to get further involved in the party, as it is ground work stimulation for new ideas, and new proposals, in fact here's a snippet.
Subsection 13.1: Voting and Direct Action
4. Party members who hold a minority view on any matter shall be respected and listened-to. While majority decisions are sometimes necessary to reach agreement on a plan of action, they do not imply the need for Party members to follow a centralist or authoritarian party line on all matters.
5. Although consensus, unity of action and unity of opinion are desirable, Party members are free to form working groups or affinity groups, and to initiate campaigns, organizations and tasks without approval from anyone. Such initiatives shall be criticized only if they do obvious harm to the Party or to the international e-proletariat.
Sub-section 13.4: Party Proposals
1. Party members are always free to start up and pursue Party work on their own initiative. A more formalized Party Proposal may also be put forward by any Party member in order to gain support for the initiative from the Party as a whole. In order to receive funding or political support from the RC, an initiative needs to be put forward as a Party Proposal.
Any of this known to you? If not, well, there you go. Use that to engage the party more and become more vocal! The SFP will grow so long as the membership gets more involved with it!
Until next time,
-Leon Gutierrez
What are your thoughts on the Constitution? Things you do or do not like? Feel free to speak your mind on the comments, or better yet on our forums!
This article is also published under the SFP Freedom Writer’s Guild.
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Comments
SFP Party members new and old, our solidarity and activity more-than-ever will be needed to bring this party to great heights!
Great document. It provides a lot of useful information without serving as an indoctrination manual.
I feel that the RC was created for a different time in eHistory and it needs to be more inclusive. In my opinion, the interests of the Party are not accurately portrayed by the voice of only 9 individuals. I was told that when this was added the party had very few people. Our main body of representation should be slightly larger to reflect the times as we currently have the second largest party in eUSA.
A reasonable voting member increase from 9 to say 13 or 15.
Getting 15 people to agree enough for a majority decision to be made is an uphill battle, unless the decision is so obvious that you’d have to be a retarded monkey to oppose it.
A wide net of “advisory” roles to ensure disparate voices are heard is probably more effective, and that’s what we seem to have de facto adopted.
If you are referring to the "no more than 9 and no less than 5" rule of the voting committee in the RC, here's a good thread to also voice those thoughts and concerns ! http://sfp-erep.forumotion.com/t1300-socialist-freedom-constitution
Awareness is so important. o7
Yes, so it will be up to the FWG to start bringing it to the party and the masses!
Of course I am biased, being related spiritually to one of the main authors of the Constitution, but I would agree both that it is a unique and interesting document and that it is in need of a thorough refresh. Glad to see the SFP community having a good debate and discussion on this. My view on the "RC" is that it should be superceded in many respects by a General Assembly ("GA") but continue to exist as a kind of transparent servant-leader executive committee.
More discussion! More Ideas!
The more you know!
o/
openness is good
keep up the good work 🙂