Left Politics

Details of a Your Party leadership meeting on 20 July show Jeremy Corbyn’s faction and the party’s officers’ group manoeuvring to ignore no-confidence votes against chair Jenn Forbes, before so many members walked out, the meeting became inquorate.

We built The Left Lane on graft and conviction alone. Now we’re only £600 short to keep us going for two years – and that’s a gap only you can close.

In this special investigation, Alan Story reveals how a no confidence revolt inside Your Party’s top body has left chair Jenn Forbes isolated, Jeremy Corbyn’s authority in tatters, and the party’s governance teetering on collapse.

From a shambolic branch launch in Norfolk to the suspension of three CEC members for daring to speak out, Your Party’s descent from 800,000 supporters to fewer than 50,000 looks less like teething trouble and more like terminal decline, says Alan Story.

We’re expanding our network of over 40 contributors and want to hear from trade unionists, campaigners, community organisers and writers of every experience level.

A radical media outlet has had its funds frozen by its bank of nearly a decade – with no explanation given. The Left Lane's board says this is an attack on independent journalism and it won't be the last.

Andrew Hedges reviews a new book that doubles as a portrait of his own County Durham and argues that the left must learn from Thatcher's success at ‘subject formation’ if it wants to build one of its own.

At the federation's second online conference, members voted to adopt an initial platform and structure and a congress arrangements committee was elected ahead of September's founding conference.

Five questions, 800 words, one verdict – the new Socialist Federation tells us why Your Party failed, why it won't rush to repeat the mistake and what it hopes to build instead.

As Europe’s governments race to rearm, thousands gathered in Westminster to forge an anti-war movement that crosses borders – and means business. Alex Snowdon reports.