The left is very divided in England, as a result of the Socialist Alliance (SA) being led in a very bureaucratic manner (with lots of committees, the need for proposers and seconders, and the lack of internet discussion groups) by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Additionally, the SWP ensured that the SA was not mentioned at major events, in particular at the rally at the end of the 2-million strong demonstration against the war on Iraq in February 2003 in London.

I am proposing that the SA renames itself the "Democratic Socialist Alliance" (DSA) at its next national conference, to distance itself from the bureaucratic practices of the SWP in the past and the Stalinist regimes that collapsed in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

I am also proposing the formation of a single Revolutionary Platform (RP) within the DSA, to which revolutionary socialist organisations and parties are welcome to join as sub-platforms or merge into the RP. They may wish to retain their own identity indefinitely, in order to preserve their particular brand of revolutionary socialism, or they may wish to dissolve themselves into the RP after a period of time working together in a united form with other revolutionaries.

This proposal is not limited to England - I believe it is the best way of operating throughout the world (and in most countries these are the best names to use for the organisations), and since the Welsh SA has already been dissolved, I will help set up a Welsh Democratic Socialist Alliance and an RP within it in the Cardiff area.