Online Zoom discussion on Monday 27 October 2025 at 7:30pm. Link here. Join the discussion. After weeks of delay, on 17 October the YourParty central organising team eventually sent members four founding documents. The material states that members will be able to engage with the documents and propose amendments through Continue Reading
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YourParty? Whose Party? – Invitation to an in-person discussion
The mess in YourParty and how to deal with it. Organised jointly by Stockport Socialists for YourParty & Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view Saturday 27 September 2025 10:30am-1pm Friends’ Meeting House 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS 800,000 signed up enthusiastically to YourParty. Branches are being Continue Reading
YourParty: Grassroots Democracy over Bureaucratic Splits
A statement from Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view Your Party is in great danger of falling at the first hurdle. The huge initial support for a new left party is under threat of being squandered entirely. This is not solely the fault of any one faction or Continue Reading
YourParty, Our Party, Whose Party?
At the end of last week another new platform inside YourParty was launched, under the name ‘Our Party‘. It gave the impression that it was a response to the factional flare-up at the top of YourParty, but it seems that platform has in fact been in formation for some time. Continue Reading
For transparency and clarity in YourParty
The absence of any communication about how YourParty is to be taken forward from those involved at the centre of the initiative is very worrying. It gives the impression that they don’t really know what to do with the 800,000 names that have signed up for the project. One communication Continue Reading
We must argue for socialism/communism
Capitalism will only be abolished by the conscious act of the working class – the overwhelming majority of the world’s population. It won’t be achieved by small groups or parties, or by prominent individuals. It requires the majority working class collectively to understand the need for the present system to Continue Reading
AOC’s Vote and its relevance to YourParty
In a move which has caused intense debate on the US left, House representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), one of the leading members of the leftwing grouping in the Democrats known as “The Squad”, recently voted against an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026, which sought to remove Continue Reading
Your Party. What will it be? What can we make it?
On 24 July 2025, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana launched their website for a new party with the working title of ‘Your Party’. The call from the left-wing former leader of the Labour Party and suspended Labour MP – now resigned from the Labour Party – Zarah Sultana is clearly aimed Continue Reading
Live Stream of TAS meeting: Why we need a new Socialist/Communist Party
On Saturday 16 November TAS will be holding an in-person meeting in central Manchester, from 11am – 5pm, to discuss “Why we need a new Socialist/Communist Party. If you’re interested in attending then email us at info@talkingaboutsocialism.org or call Nick Wrack on 07812 063 409. We hope to Live Stream Continue Reading
On the death of Alexei Navalny
With the media and press overwhelmingly owned by the ruling capitalist class in society rather than the working class who are the majority, the truth of international events and their significance is often obscured or hidden from us. The shocking detail of the drive towards the ethnic cleansing of Palestine Continue Reading