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And yet much of the organising has been done in private by the Sultana and Feinstein factions who have held secretive competing rallies and meetings up and down the country which have definitely been done behind closed doors. But that's not what I'm talking about. The fundamentals of what the party stands for (is it socialist? left-of-centre? federalist? whatever) and how it's run must be sorted out before supporters get to participate. These sorts of lessons - as well as going too far in the centralist way - were learned the hard way with Occupy. The passion and energy of a movement is easily dissipated by politicking. Which, I fear, is what has happened. Plus my usual belief that the state is usually involved in dismantling left groups from within.