Your Party

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.

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.

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.

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.