At the party's conference in June 1919, it voted to ignore all future elections, and also to follow the advice of the Third International by opening discussions with other socialist groups with the aim of forming a single communist party. As a result, it organised meetings in London later in the month, which were attended by the WSF, SLP, British Socialist Party and South Wales Socialist Society. Pankhurst wrote to Lenin, asking for his support for the party's opposition to standing in elections; to her disappointment, he argued that this reflected a "lack of revolutionary experience", although he also stated that the issue was a secondary one, and should not prevent the WSF from becoming part of a new communist party. While not changing its views, the WSF accordingly deprioritised this policy in the hope of furthering the unity negotiations.