United Left
United Left | |
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| Chair | Ricca |
| Vice Chair | Lina Cafe |
| National Council (NCP) |
Trash Jess Reed Trent NotAName Moonguy |
| Founded | February 6, 2020 |
| Dissolved | January 20, 2021 |
| Membership | 43 |
| Ideology |
Democratic Socialism Communism |
| Colors | |
| House of Representatives |
0 / 18 |
| Senate |
0 / 8 |
| Governorships |
0 / 4 |
| State Legislatures |
0 / 20 |
| Website | |
| https://discord.gg/cUKAjAU | |
The United Left, formerly known as the People's Socialist Liberation Party (more commonly referred to as to as the Socialist Party), is a former far-left political party founded in Late February of 2020 and officially disbanded in January 2021. The party was known for having members ranging from democratic socialism to various forms of communism. At the time of disbanding, the party was not holding a seat in any political office outside of DC Council.
Early History
The United Left (initially named the People’s Socialist Liberation Party of America) formed soon after the death of the Labor Party, and just a few days after the new Social Democratic Party (initially named the American Liberal Party). The founding members of the United Left were Trash, Starcomet, dfads, Naan and Moose, comrade skeleton, Benja, and M1ghtyThor94. In the first leadership election for the party, Trash was selected as Chair, while dfads and Chris McLean were the first NCP members. From formation, there was a close relationship with the SDP/ALP.
Early on, the party was relatively successful, winning one House seat and one Senate seat out of 3 members running for Congress in March 2020. The March party election ended with Trash going uncontested, dfads winning reelection, and jogod taking McLean’s place in the NCP. In the April state election, jogod won a Dixie general assembly seat.
The April Party election had then-record turnout. Trash successfully won Chair re-election against Epsilon966 by a large margin, dfads won re-election over Soviet Squidward, and IndyPrez unseated jogod to claim a seat in the NCP.
The Squidward Scandal
In the May federal election, Soviet Squidward made multiple contentious claims on twitter and in debate about North Korean labor camps, China’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslims, the Holodomor, and, worst of all, he came out as a Dengist. Within a day, the United Left had voted to expel him from the party, although not before a wave of criticism was directed at the Chair and party more broadly. Additionally, prominent members Politophile and Epsilon966 very openly criticized the leadership, with the latter leaving the party soon after. That election did not go well for the United Left. This also resulted in the SDP/ALC cutting off ties with the United Left. Historical revisionism was added into the constitution as a recognized reason to ban a member from the party.
Slow But Steady Growth
Politophile joined the NCP by beating jogod in the party’s first ever NCP special election due to membership growth (for every 10 new members, the party adds another NCP seat). The May Chair election saw Trash come out on top against IndyPrez. In a slightly controversial decision, the party allowed former Federalist and American Solidarity Party member JMP to join after he switched to mutualism.
The party was growing in membership, but electoral success evaded its members. The state election in June saw just one member, jogod, win a state legislative position. The SDP-UL partnership was reinstated. The June party election ended with Trash and JMP winning unopposed, while Politophile beat El_Presidente for the last NCP position. The Vice Chair position was created, and Chair Trash appointed Noodleborn. The DC election resulted in a House of Representatives seat for El_Presidente.
Tragedy struck in July after Chair Trash accidentally submitted federal election candidates to Jet instead of Lamport (because Lamport was temporary head mod for a few days), and although he tried to correct himself 20 minutes after the deadline, an exception was not given. Only a handful of members ran in that election since they had to manually sign up within 12 hours and with little notice. However, despite this setback, the United Left achieved two important results: first, Trent won a seat in the House over an experienced opponent, and second, Trash won Dixie in the Presidential election, which spoiled Libertarian candidate Jack Coulter’s chances of winning.
Changing Times
The July party election saw all members of leadership win re-election. A fourth NCP seat was added for membership growth, which was won by Lina Cafe over Trent. A few days later, the Chief Strategist position was added to the constitution, which MichiganLefty was appointed to soon thereafter.
In the next two weeks, the United Left won three concurrent special elections, two state legislature seats in Jefferson (codegreen and Trent) and one in Dixie (Lina Cafe).
With the departure of JMP to court, and the departure of jogod from public life, MichiganLefty and SmashNGo won special elections to be on the NCP. Justin replaced MichiganLefty as Chief Strategist.
The August state elections were a failure for the left broadly, but especially for the United Left. Poor coordination led to just one victory, Lina Cafe in DX-7, out of 11 members running. The next party election saw major changes. Trash beat Justin for Chair, and all NCP members were uncontested except Lina Cafe, who lost to NotAName. The party’s name was changed to United Left, and the logo was changed. Changes were made to the party’s platform as well.
Leadership History
| Chair | ||
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| Term | Name | Term of Service |
| First | Trash | February 6, 2020 - March 10, 2020 |
| Second | March 11, 2020 - Present | |
Electoral History
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| Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- |
| Mar. 2020 | 1 / 17
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Mar. 2020 | 1 / 5
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| Election | Candidate | North Electoral Votes | Dixie Electoral Votes | Jefferson Electoral Votes | Total Electoral Votes | +/- | Result |
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| Mar. 2020 | No Candidate | 0 / 8
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Federalist Victory |
| Northern House of Delegates | Dixie General Assembly | Jefferson Parliament | Jefferson Senate Special | ||||||||
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| Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- |
| Apr. 2020 | 0 / 5
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Apr. 2020 | 1 / 7
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Apr. 2020 | 0 / 5
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Apr. 2020 | 0 / 1
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| Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- |
| May 2020 | 1 / 17
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May 2020 | 0 / 2
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| Northern House of Delegates | Dixie General Assembly | Jefferson Parliament | North Lt Governor | ||||||||
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| Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- |
| June 2020 | 0 / 5
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June 2020 | 1 / 7
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June 2020 | 0 / 5
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June 2020 | 0 / 1
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| North | Dixie | Jefferson | Total | |||||||
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| Election | Governorships Won | +/- | Election | Governorships Won | +/- | Election | Governorships Won | +/- | Governorships Won | +/- |
| June 2020 | 0 / 1
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June 2020 | 0 / 1
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June 2020 | 0 / 1
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| House of Representatives | Senate | ||||
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| Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- |
| July 2020 | 1 / 17
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July 2020 | 0 / 2
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| Election | Candidate | North Electoral Votes | Dixie Electoral Votes | Jefferson Electoral Votes | DC Electoral Votes | Total Electoral Votes | +/- | Result |
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| July 2020 | Trash | 1 / 8
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9 / 23
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American Liberal Coalition Victory |
| Northern House of Delegates | Dixie General Assembly | Jefferson Parliament | ||||||
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| Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- | Election | Seats Won | +/- |
| August 2020 | 0 / 5
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August 2020 | 1 / 7
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August 2020 | 0 / 5
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