Life of the Party

As the left turns to economic populism as the way to beat Farage, Jonas, Shanice and Joe explore it's potentials and imitations. Meanwhile, the Greens surge to 100,000 members, Joe tests the water at Green Party conference, and Zarah Sultana comes out gunning for the Greens at The World Transformed. Reading Organising for Popular Power - An Anti-Capitalism Base Building Tendency in Your Party...

What the f!#k has just happened with Your Party? Shanice, Joe and Jonas try their best to shake off their collective depression and get a handle on the drama and controversy underlying Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s very public fallout. How did we get here, and more importantly how the hell do we get out? Readings: Whose Party Is It Anyway - Archie Woodrow Your Party’s Messy Public Breakdown Sh...

As Zack Polanski begins to make his mark scrapping with journalists and political opponents, Joe and Shanice disagree on where his biggest challenge will come from. Meanwhile the row between MPs Zarah Sultana and Adnan Hussain on trans politics raises critical questions about what Your Party stands for. Readings: Regime Change in the West - Perry Anderson In and Against the State. Revolutionary Fe...

Shanice, Joe and Jonas dive into all things democracy, examining Zarah Sultana’s saucy New Left Review interview, travelling way back to the Greek agora, and asking searching questions of Corbynism’s legacy. As the Your Party founding conference looms, they ask what real party democracy actually looks like? Readings: The Alternative - Zarah Sultana Born for life, Marked for death - Max Shanley Mod...