YourParty supporters are getting used to periodically hearing about what is happening in the closeted world of the party’s leadership from media articles where some faction or other has leaked about it to friends in the MSM. The latest public row was kicked off by a Guardian article about the Continue Reading
Janet Sillett
Why we should talk about Zionism
Do I think it’s ok to ambush Jeremy Corbyn in the street when he was about to speak at a pro-Palestine rally to ask if he is anti-Zionist? No, I don’t. It was too reminiscent of the many times the media did the same when he was Labour leader; the Continue Reading
TAS discusses the fight for democracy & socialism in YourParty
Janet Sillett reports on the TAS public zoom meeting 11 August 2025: How can we make YourParty democratic and socialist? The video of the full meeting can be viewed here. The Talking About Socialism public zoom meeting on Democracy and Socialism on 11 August 2025 was the second of a Continue Reading
Lessons still not learned
The left – the broad church left – has universally welcomed Zarah Sultana’s 3 July statement to resign from Labour and to co-lead the formation of a new party. The numbers (over 60,000 at the time of writing) that have signed up to support the project clearly reflect the widespread Continue Reading
Film Review: No Other Land
No Other Land won the best documentary at this year’s Oscars. This follows many other awards globally, including at the Berlin film festival where it won the Berlinale documentary award. The film is hard to watch even if we know the story it is telling us. From its opening scenes Continue Reading
Capitalism refuses to confront climate crisis
The struggle for wealth, and its deplorable results (in the human sphere) have been accompanied by a reckless destruction of the products of nature, which is even more deplorable because more irretrievable Alfred Russell Wallace, 1895 Valencia floods, Californian wildfires, another frustrating COP. The WMO has confirmed 2024 is the Continue Reading
How can we mourn?
How can we mourn? by Janet Sillett how can we mourn a city who are not its victims? we do not hear the drones or smell decay we do not feel the shaking of foundations our eulogy a distortion stretched threadbare gaslighting humanity “Don’t scroll past” but I do now, Continue Reading
Circle of evil – how the lessons of the past are not learned.
A review of Zone of Interest, Director Jonathan Glazer, by Janet Sillett.* ‘Unforgettable’, ‘haunting’, ‘chilling’: The Zone of Interest, which won this year’s Oscar for Best Inernational Feature Film, is all of these. Its ability to shock is more about what it doesn’t show but in what we hear, imagine Continue Reading