Your Party

Saturday’s Isle of Wight session begins a new process, with at least 200 more local Your Party launches supposed to follow. Darren Galpin reports.

The main issue up for debate following a national meeting of left-wing activists at the weekend is whether it is still worth sticking with Your Party or is it already a dead duck? Will McMahon was at the event and sent us this report.

English socialism has long been divided by a civil war between the ‘realism’ of left-reformism and the abstract ‘revolutionary’ politics of the communist sects, says Steve Freeman.

The Connections group meets in Sheffield on 6 June for the first of a series of conventions to bring together socialist groups and activist organisations to discuss a way forward for the left. Below, one of the event’s organisers, Jenny Curtis, offers her thoughts on the initiative.

As the setting up of a new socialist organisation takes shape following a meeting at the weekend, Graham Jones, an admin at the nascent Socialist Federation offers his thoughts on this new development for the left.

At an online conference on 31 May 2026, a new socialist group was formed and has a full in-person conference planned for September 2026. Darren Galpin attended the session and reports on what happened here.

With leadership speculation currently rife in UK politics, in this long read article, Alan Story argues that Jeremy Corbyn should relinquish his position as the leader of Your Party – and the sooner the better.

Where next for the left? can often be heard when socialists ponder the current political situation. A key conference in Sheffield in June is set to address this very question next month.

The 7 May local elections saw many independent socialist candidates achieve only derisory votes. John Tummon asks whether there is a viable electoral strategy for the socialist left, or whether, in the short term, the left would be better off throwing in its lot with the Greens in council elections.

It’s taken ten months, but next month sees the first official formation meeting of a Your Party branch and it’s happening in Newport on the Isle of Wight.

When Jeremy Corbyn endorsed Newham Independents mayoral candidate, Mehmood Mirza, he did so without consulting local Your Party members. A frustrated Roger Silverman reports from Newham on the campaign in the east London borough.

In the concluding article in our six-part series on the current challenges in Your Party, Anita Patel says the real question that needs to be asked is – what is wrong with the left in Britain?