Joining an undemocratic group
How things start doesn't have to determine how they end.
Practicing democracy day to day will ingrain into the culture of the party.
Identify the situation in your area
Form a completely new YP Proto-Branch.
Focus on establishing democratic structures and wide engagement with activists in your area.
Form a YP Proto-Branch with existing political and/or community groups.
Develop tactics for working together to bring about a democratic structure that accountable to YP members, not to third parties.
Form a Proto-Branch as a caucus or faction.
Developing democratic structures to organise a caucus or as a faction.
One way of democratising your group is to adopt a constitution.
If your group has a self-appointed organising committee, take a look at alternative branch structures and ways you can get there.
Make decisions before there's a constitution
Short term committees that dissolve, meetings are sovereign