Report: We Asked This MP If He Really Wanted to Be in Your Party. Then He Quit
Harriet Williamson
Exclusive: Adnan Hussain MP has resigned from the Your Party steering committee following a request for comment from Novara Media.
Tag: jeremy corbyn
Opinion: It’s Your Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want To
Ash Sarkar
Fractious, back-biting, unstrategic: so far, Your Party has managed to recreate the Labour party in all but scale, writes Ash Sarkar. But that isn’t to say there aren’t signs of life.
Feature: How Can Labour Win Over the Flag Protesters? We Asked Them
Rivkah Brown
Out of work, unable to get an NHS appointment and furiously angry at migrants and the government – has Keir Starmer ever spoken to the people he’s trying to win from Nigel Farage? Rivkah Brown did, outside Labour conference in Liverpool.
Opinion: Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency
Jeremy Corbyn
Israel’s detention of hundreds of peaceful activists - including my constituent, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu - is both a violation of their human rights and a further act of cruelty against the people of Gaza. But the movement for Palestine is never going away, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
Analysis: Your Party’s Messy Public Breakdown Shows It Has Big Questions to Answer
Archie Woodrow
Jeremy Corbyn relaunched the new left party this week, but the chaotic and embarrassing way that key figures have acted up until this point raises concerns about its future prospects, argues Archie Woodrow.
Opinion: The New Party Fallout Shows That Hero-Worship Gets Us Nowhere
Michael Chessum
The public split between Your Party co-founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana shows how building mass movements around leftwing celebrities doesn’t work, argues Michael Chessum.
Feature: Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union
Polly Smythe
Andrea Egan wants to turn the 1.3 million-member Unison from a creaking bureaucracy to a vehicle for worker power. Polly Smythe meets her.
Opinion: Politicians Should Step Aside and Let Members Run the New Left Party
Jonas Marvin & Shanice McBean
Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s power struggles are squandering a historic opportunity to build a mass party of the left. That’s why we support the democratic challenge to take over its leadership, write Jonas Marvin and Shanice McBean.
Analysis: Is the New Left Party Over Already?
Harriet Williamson
Faced with the ever-increasing likelihood of a Reform government modelled on Trumpian authoritarianism, the response from some of our leading leftwing figures has descended into farce. Harriet Williamson writes
Opinion: Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face
Joe Guinan
Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan.
Opinion: Forget Movement-Building – the New Party Should Be the Ukip of the Left
Lewis Bassett
Some have argued that Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new initiative should build its own institutions. Really, it should focus on influencing popular discourse and existing power structures - just like Ukip did, writes Lewis Bassett.
Opinion: Zack Polanski’s Win Is the Kick up the Arse the Left Needs
James Meadway
The left has four years to stop Nigel Farage from becoming prime minister. Polanski’s Green leadership win is the starting gun on a race we must win, writes James Meadway.
Report: Reform Voters Prefer Corbyn to Starmer on Almost Every Metric, New Polling Shows
Rivkah Brown
Reform voters think the new party co-founder is more intelligent, trustworthy, hard-working and principled than the prime minister, suggesting Starmer’s attempts to woo the right aren’t working. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How
Rivkah Brown & Simon Childs
The recent proscription of Palestine Action has blindsided many who thought terrorism meant suicide bombers and knife attackers. In fact, counter-terror legislation has been broadening for decades, write Rivkah Brown and Simon Childs.
Analysis: What We Know About the New Left Party So Far
Richard Hames
Following months of clamouring for a new left party, one has suddenly turned up. Richard Hames explains what we know so far.
Opinion: What Next for the New Left Party? We Asked Our Contributors
Craig Gent, Joe Guinan, Jonas Marvin, Shanice McBean & Abi Wilkinson
The long-rumoured left party has finally been soft-launched by Zarah Sultana. While the mainstream media relitigates the he-said-she-said of the launch, we ask five Novara Media writers where they think the party should go.
Novara Live: Corbyn Confirms He’ll Form New Party With Zarah Sultana
It’s here! Or is it? On this Friday’s show – we’ll be discussing whether the rumblings of a new left party, the proscription of Palestine Action and more. With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani, Jamie Driscoll and Omar Abdel-Mannan
Analysis: A Sultana-Corbyn New Left Party Will Need All the Friends It Can Get
Steven Methven
Zarah Sultana’s shock announcement that she’s quitting Labour to co-lead a new party with Jeremy Corbyn already has the usual media suspects sharpening their knives, Steven Methven writes.