Nylige diskusjoner om Rødts strategi, og årsakene til Rødts vekst, fikk meg til å tenke på dette intervjuet jeg gjorde rett før Rødts 15-årsdag, med det italienske tidsskriftet Transform Italia.
Det er ikke tilfeldig at Rødt ble stort. Det var et systematisk arbeid over mange år fra mange aktivister over hele landet.
Som jeg sa til Transform:
“For many years the party and its predecessor had been laying around or slightly above 1% in polls and elections. Initially in the 2013 elections it did not show any effect, but we dug in, rewrote much of our party program to remove internal coded language, and make it more accessible to ordinary people, and worked similarly with our communication. We managed for the first time to prioritize and to run nationally coordinated campaigns. Previously the party was sometimes jokingly referred to as a collection of local groups with a common foreign policy. But now we became a party that could put issues on the national agenda, notably keeping a firm eye in the economic issues where a large majority of the population has common interests.”
Og litt videre:
“The most interesting thing about Rødt is that we have had large growth all over the country, including small rural municipalities. Actually, Rødt grew inn all but one of Norway’s 356 municipalities in the last election. …
I believe an important reason for this, is the conscious and planned gradual building of the party organization over the entire country, and this also influences the party’s policies. When our members come from all over the country, in a lot of different life situations, our policies also will reflect that.”
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, som de sier. Vi ser at oppslutningen sakte kryper oppover igjen nå, når vi har arbeidsro og rom til å snakke om kjernesakene. Ikke ødelegg det fokuset!
Hele intervjuet mitt med Transform Italia ligger her: https://transform-italia.it/rodt-come-costruire-un-partito-utile-e-fedele-ai-propri-ideali/
Automatoversatt til engelsk: https://transform–italia-it.translate.goog/rodt-come-costruire-un-partito-utile-e-fedele-ai-propri-ideali/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp