Social democrats sit out Gorton and Denton by-election

This episode of Proletarian Radio delivers a scathing critique of the left's decision to withdraw from the Gorton and Denton by-election and endorse the Green Party candidate, Hannah Spencer, instead of fielding their own candidates. The host argues that both the Workers' Party of Britain (WPB) and Your Party (YP) have made a strategic error by uniting behind the Greens, whom they describe as a pro-imperialist, pro-Zionist, and neoliberal force that has implemented brutal austerity in local government and opposed workers' strikes. The episode contends that this move is not a principled stand against the Reform Party, but a capitulation to social democracy that reinforces faith in bourgeois parliamentarism at a time when revolutionary consciousness is needed. The host traces the historical pattern of left-wing parties like the CPGB surrendering class struggle for reformist alliances with Labour, leading to their political decay, and warns that the current 'united front' with the Greens repeats this fatal mistake. Ultimately, the episode calls for a break from electoralism and a focus on building revolutionary consciousness among the working class, rejecting all forms of social democratic compromise as tools of imperialist control.