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The image is taken by an audience member of the Your Party Sctoland founding conference in Dundee. Audience memebrs are sitting on chairs in severeal rows, looking at the panel in front. Your Party merch banners fill the stage.

After the resignations: How Your Party lost Scotland

Many members have been ejected due to dual membership, and others have left in anger and dismay

An image of a group of campaigners of "Hackney Votes Palestine" taking a group photo. Many of them are wearing Palestine-related clothes and holding flags of banners. They look happy and are smiling. It's sunny and there's trees in the background.

Hackney Votes Palestine? Insights from a grassroots electoral campaign

Local election victories are worth pursuing as a means of building the organisations and protected ground necessary for mass working-class reorganisation

green pharmaceutical heroin bottle by Bayer.

Push that green: Labour’s by-election fearmongering

Against government efforts to demonise drug users, we need an approach built around universal compassion and decriminalisation.

Islington Council offices

Palestine hunger striker to contest local council seat in May

Incarcerated activist’s electoral campaign places the treatment of political prisoners in the spotlight.

Report from the Scottish Your Party conference

A report from the inaugural conference of Your Party Scotland

Your Party CEC elections

What’s at stake in the Your Party elections.

Your Party must trust its members

A reflection on the Your Party conference and the future for the new party

Your Party and the limits of online voting 

E-democracy undermines the participatory and meaningful forms we need in Your Party

Long shot of the the conference hall stage two screens with blurred images of Corbyn and two long banners with slogan This is Your Party

Your Party founding conference: reflections and tasks

Reflections on the Your Party conference and what next

Revolutionary red lines

Organising in Your Party requires an abolitionist perspective

Review | The Starmer symptom

Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis

Your Party: Don’t fuck this up

rs21 steering group argues that the stakes are too high for Your Party to fail. Everyone who wants to see it succeed needs to act now

Your Party needs to bury Labourism

The new left party may be breaking with Labour, but it must also break from Labourism

After-party: Your Party Glasgow initial public meeting

How the first Your Party public event in Glasgow came together. A personal reflection on the process and what next.

Is this the end of Labour in Wales?

What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?

Striking workers, 1926

Red Friday – why workplace organising outdoes left union officials

The build-up to the 1926 General Strike highlights the dangers of a strategy based on left-wing union leaders.

Building from below

Draft perspectives on a framework for the foundation of the new left party

Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

The rocky road to power: notes on a new left

A new left party is on the cards. What strategy should the left pursue?

rs21 and the new left party

rs21 members discussed the potential new left party at an All Members Assembly

5 sites, 1 day - 6am, 25 July - Birmingham - B'ham Bin Workers Megapicket 2

Birmingham bin strike: show your support against Labour’s austerity

The bin workers are standing up to Labour’s austerity policies – support this crucial strike.

A picture of Keir Starmer at the World Economic Forum.

Labour and immigration

Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech

Nigel Farage speaks at a Reform UK event

As Reform grows, we urgently need a left electoral alternative

As two-party politics collapses and Reform UK rise, we need an alternative at the polls.

Crowd at protest against Supreme Court ruling two Fire Brigades Union flags in foreground, one red, one rainbow

New left party: dead-end or dead right

Any new mass socialist formation must be rooted in class politics which understands its relation to oppression

black and white photo of a puppet keir starmer with a sign on him saying "I

Labour – war hawks

Trumpeting the military is a distraction from Labour’s policies to deepen oppression and exploitation.

Farage with Union Jack in the European parliament

Be concerned – Reform is coming

We have some catching up to do. On building new coalitions and mass socialist politics.

Picture of Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, and Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, during a visit to Tilbury Port, Essex, where they toured the site and met with apprentices on November 23, 2023

Is this the end of austerity? Making sense of Britain under Labour

Can Starmer and Reeves deliver lasting change—or will their plans flop under scrutiny?

image of rachel reeves sat in a chair

Labour’s budget – no end to increasing inequality

Social services gutted, green transition neglected, public money funnelled to private business.

With the benefit of hindsight: ‘Scottish Independence and the British state ten years on’

Ten years on from the Scottish independence referendum – a report of a Conter conference held on 14 September 2024

Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’

Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.

Election – threats from the right, big new chances for the left

Colin Wilson provides an analysis of the election, including the unreported detail of successes for a new kind of left