Greetings, libertarian! We need your your help with a special project -- restoring the party of principle.


America needs a Libertarian Party worthy of pride and respect -- a party it can look to for the right answers to the big questions.


America needs a presidential candidate who talks about the non-aggression principle.


America needs a platform and national candidate to advocate no-compromise abolition; to explain that there are ways to fulfill the world’s social needs without the violence of a coercive state.


We know these positions to be good, right, and true. America may or may not rally to these positions if we hold them high, but we can know for certain that if we don't, they won't.

Take Back the LP

Links

Libertarian Party


Radical Caucus


Rothbard Caucus


Anarchist Caucus


Grassroots Caucus


Independent Political Report


St Louis on the Cheap


2010 Convention

Countdown to St. Louis

The state of the party


Some libertarians say that the party is not what it was ten years ago. They're right.


While some state and local parties have held to a principled libertarian message, the party as a whole has lost its way. A watered-down platform, combined with leaders and candidates who are increasingly indistinguishable from marginally pro-freedom Republicans, is not a party worthy of the support of those who seek freedom.


Some activists have been driven to the conclusion that hardcore libertarians should abandon the LP and let it fade away. We disagree. America needs a libertarian political party now more than ever, and we believe the LP can be that party again.


It's worth saving


We believe that the LP is worth fighting for, and we're not giving up.  Ask any libertarian in the movement where they started their activism.  Odds are that the answer will be "the LP."  


Our presidential campaigns used to recruit and energize thousands of new activists. The LP has been the feeder organization for the broader libertarian movement for most of the last forty years.  It provides an in-person experience, where people come together, get the word out, and yes, discuss issues and philosophy.  It is during these repeated interactions that liberty sympathizers become hardcore minarchists, and minarchists begin to question the need for any state whatsoever.  


Those transformations do happen without the LP, but no other libertarian movement institution thus far approaches the LP's record of success in educating and energizing libertarian activists.


The plan


The only way to restore the party is through the dedicated work of committed activists.  Here's what you need to do to win your party back:


  1. 1.Become a dues-paying member of the national party.  Or your state party. Or both.

  2. 2.Join the LP Radicals mailing list.

  3. 3.Make plans to be at the national convention in St. Louis next May.  You need to be a delegate if you want to have any say in the direction of the party, our platform, and our leadership.  If you don't know how to become a delegate, ask on the mailing list.

  4. 4.Get involved locally.  If you have enough party members in your district who are willing to fill the officer roles, form an affiliate.  If you need help, ask on the mailing list.

  5. 5.Donate to keep our ads running on Free Talk Live, or sponsor some ads of your own where you think they will do the most good.

  6. 6.Rally other principled libertarians to this effort.  Blog it. Facebook it. Tweet it.  Make it your project, and run with it.


That's it.  See you in St. Louis.