Despite recent difficulties and internal battles, Your Party has finally been officially founded. Over the weekend of 29-30 November, over 2,000 YP members gathered in Liverpool to establish what is already the largest socialist party in Britain since the 1940s. Nobody will have missed the sharp debates which were thrashed out on the conference floor. […]
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On November 29 and 30, Your Party (YP) will hold its founding conference. The challenges that lie in front of this fledgling organisation are huge. But its tasks are urgent. The enemy is at the gate. Reform leads in the polls by a wide margin. Far-right racists are emboldened and on the streets. Starmer’s Labour, […]
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Zarah Sultana MP and Jeremy Corbyn have announced they are launching a new party! Over the past few months, the call for a new left party has become deafening. It is clear this is an idea whose time has come, with a surprise announcement from Zarah Sultana that she and Jeremy Corbyn will be launching […]
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New left party needed to halt Reform’s march to power It is now more than a year since Rishi Sunak stood rain-soaked outside 10 Downing Street to announce a general election. In the time that has passed since, the political landscape of Britain has been transformed almost beyond recognition. The final nails in the coffin […]
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New Left Party Needed Now! The only answer from centrist politicians like Keir Starmer to rising support for the figures like Farage is to politically mimic them. “We must close the book on a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy and our country. Britain risks becoming an island of strangers”. This chilling anti-migrant rhetoric, […]
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At an historic Conference of Resistance in Huddersfield on 10 May, leading figures from across Britain’s left came together to launch the People’s Alliance for Change and Equality (PACE) — a new movement bringing together community campaigns, trade unionists and social movements in Kirklees to build a working-class socialist political alternative. In addition, the conference […]
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Mass Struggle for Trans Liberation and Socialism Needed! We can’t rely on the courts or the parties of the political establishment to defend our rights. Fighting the results of this transphobic ruling falls down to us. The recent ruling from the UK Supreme Court that the terms ‘legal’ and ‘sex’ in the Equalities Act refer […]
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But Starmer’s Labour will disappoint — Build working class struggle and a New Left Party The working class in England, Scotland and Wales have just wiped the floor with the Tories. With votes still being counted, they are headed for an historic defeat, and Labour is headed for one of the biggest majorities in more […]
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We need a new party! British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, drenched in rain outside Number 10, announced the General Election for July 4. Everyone — Sunak included — knows he is finished. Recent polls have placed Labour on a poll lead of up to 25%. It is quite likely that, knowing his ratings could sink […]
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Julie Walton is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). DP Canada is one of the major port companies refusing to negotiate with the ILWU in BC. They are owned by DP World, a Dubai based company that made profits before taxes, etc of $5 billion in 20022. In March of that year, […]
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