Your Party is not perfect. In fact, it hasn’t even been launched. It has no formal members, only supporters, and its cofounders have only foregrounded a handful of socialist policies. But what this new germinal left party does have is very exciting. It has Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana and over 800,000 supporters, and its proto-members […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Scores of local groups and meetings have already taken place; and events for which there exist informative online film footage include: Rotherham, August 6 (“Your Party confronts hate outside first meeting”), Sheffield, August 16 (“Corbyn welcomes Sheffield meeting of Your Party”), Leeds, August 18 (“‘We’re all Your Party’ – Leeds meeting overcomes division”), Preston, August 30 […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
With the much-needed arrival of Your Party, the socialist cat is finally out of the bag, and hundreds of thousands of people have pledged to make a new left party a reality. Zarah Sultana was correct to announce that the Labour Party is dead, but as events have demonstrated today, those inside the party’s shambolic […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Update: This article was published as a letter in the Leicester Mercury on September 6, 2025. According to the charity, Crisis, “In the past ten years, there has been a net loss of 180,067 social homes in England, with 1.3 million households in England stuck on waiting lists for a social home.” At the same […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Your Party has been born out of political necessity, much like the Labour Party’s own genesis can be traced to the working-classes need for a party that represented their interests, not those of the super-rich. Today the Labour Party is effectively dead; and it is good news that the basic socialist and democratic ideas roughly […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
July 24: The YourParty.uk web site went live allowing people to officially sign up. The founding statement (signed by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana) highlighted how “The system is rigged” adding …| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
This letter was published in the Leicester Mercury on August 23, 2025. Corporate giant Deutsche Bahn, the greedy owners of CrossCountry rail services, are once again causing significant disruption to ordinary people. Repeating an all too familiar scenario, rail managers have failed to honour agreements on staffing, safety, and pay; so their employees have been […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Over 800,000 people have signed up to YourParty, and Zarah Sultana has the potential to make a great co-leader of our new political formation. In a recent interview, Sultana highlights some of the political mistakes that were made by Jeremy Corbyn when he was leading the Labour Party. And despite the ongoing distortions of the […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Mass movements and new socialist political parties don’t just appear out of nowhere, and their formation and development are based upon and informed by prior forms of popular struggle. In the context of the launching of YourParty.uk many important lessons can be gleaned from the problems accompanying the rapid rise of previous political organisations, and […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The numbers keep growing. Over 700,000 have signed up to be founding members of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s provisionally named YourParty.uk. So, the critical question that faces this germina…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist