Long Read: Is Your Party Over?
Rivkah Brown
After a disastrous start, Your Party is hoping to get the show back on the road with elections for a new leadership collective. Can the damage be undone? Rivkah Brown reports.
Tag: jeremy corbyn
Opinion: How Do We Beat the Far Right? With Unity
Jeremy Corbyn
From Palestine to the cost of living, I want Your Party to be a powerful grassroots campaigning force, writes Jeremy Corbyn. That’s why I’m standing with The Many in the upcoming leadership election.
Report: Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana Are on Rival Slates for Your Party Leadership
Harriet Williamson
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn has announced his slate of candidates to contest Your Party’s inaugural central executive committee elections and decide the future direction and leadership of the new left party. Harriet Williamson reports.
Opinion: Your Party Members Don’t Want MPs to Be the Stars. Corbyn and Sultana Should Take the Hint
Steven Methven
With Corbyn and Sultana jostling for pole position in Your Party, members have voted for a collective leadership that decentres MPs. They should both get with the programme, writes Steven Methven.
Opinion: Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?
Steven Methven
Your Party members voted for collective leadership. But between the two co-founders, there was really only one winner, writes Steven Methven.
Interview: ‘Democracy Is Hard’ – Corbyn Defends Your Party’s Conference Chaos
We spoke to Jeremy Corbyn about Your Party’s strategy, the controversial expulsions of some members and the difficulties of democracy.
Report: Zarah Sultana Boycotts Your Party Conference Over Member Expulsions
Steven Methven
Your Party's inaugural conference began in Liverpool on Saturday with many hoping that the party's warring factions would unite. But just hours in, co-founder Zarah Sultana announced she was boycotting the event. Steven Methven reports.
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.
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.