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
Social Democracy
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
Fight for communist/socialist ideas in YourParty
This is an edited version of the introductory talk that Stephen Owen gave at the Talking About Socialism Zoom discussion on Monday 11 August 2025. The title of the meeting was ‘How can we make YourParty democratic and socialist?’ Barry Biddulph gave a second introduction to that meeting. A summary 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
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
A socialist response to Labour’s victory
This is an edited version of Will McMahon’s introduction to the Talking About Socialism event on Monday 8 July, 2024 It has not been edited to reflect Labour’s first month in Government. You can watch the event on YouTube What was my take on the election results? While Labour had Continue Reading
The rise of the far-right in Europe
This article is based on the notes for an introduction given by Will on 2nd October which, along with the discussion afterwards, can be watched on YouTube: The rise of the far-right. Over the last two decades we have see the growth of far-right parties across the continent of Europe. Continue Reading
Broad to death: the problem with broad left parties
This article is based on the notes for an introduction given by Chris on 7th August which, along with the discussion afterwards, can be watched on YouTube: ‘Transform? The problem with broad left parties’ For over thirty years there have been repeated attempts to build a political space to the Continue Reading
On-line discussion: What kind of democracy do we have, and need?
This meeting was chaired by Nick Wrack, on 18th September 2023. Watch the video here. Ed Potts introduces a discussion looking at democracy. What sort of democracy do we have under capitalism? What sort of democracy do we need? What should democracy mean in the workers’ movement? Ed starts by reflecting on the Continue Reading
50 years since Pinochet’s coup in Chile
To mark fifty years since General Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile, carried out on 11 September 1973, we carry this poem by Janet Sillett. The disappeared By Janet Sillett Stooping women searching in the arid sand of Atacama Desert bone fragments meticulously cleaned the loudest of silences The baked earth Continue Reading