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Your Party
Around 30 activists attend first Your Party branch meeting in England
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.
Connections group holds successful gathering in Sheffield
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.
Some notes on the failure of English socialism
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.
Sheffield left convention to make connections and build camaraderie
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.
Avoiding far-left habits and becoming irrelevant will be crucial for new group
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.
Socialist Federation becomes first breakaway from badly stumbling Your Party
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.
Key Sheffield conference asks “Where next for the left?”
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.
Why Jeremy Corbyn should step down as Your Party leader
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.
Default electoralism is getting the socialist left nowhere
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.