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Coming back from a wild weekend in Liverpool, Jonas gives us an insider account of the vibes, schisms and politics shaping the long-awaited founding conference of Your Party. Meanwhile Joe probes at critical questions: have the Green party completely over-shadowed Your Party? Should Your Party ditch elections and focus on the hard work of building popular power?
Reading:
The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
Social Infrastructure Proposals - Organising For Popular Power
Your Party Conference: Total Chaos or the Future of Democracy - Novara Media
As Your Party’s founding conference approaches, Joe breaks down the latest financial shenanigans and resignations, whilst Jonas makes the case that even if the launch has been a disaster, the historical opportunity presented by the crisis of British capitalism hasn’t been totally squandered.
Reading:
Melinda Cooper - Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance
Helen Walsh - Once Upon a Time in England
Oliver Eagleton - Your Party: The Return of the Left
With Your Party's regional assemblies in full swing Jonas breaks down the dynamics and debates shaping the grassroots of the party. Meanwhile, Shanice puts the debates about class and identity politics under the microscope; making the case you cannot understand the seismic and irresistible rise of Zohran Mamdani without taking seriously how class is felt through identity. But what are the lessons for the British left?
Reading
Can Apartheid Free Zones Help Liberate Palestine? - The Bristol Cable
As Zack Polanski’s comms campaigning takes the Greens from strength to strength, Your Party releases its founding documents; with debates beginning at regional assemblies. Shanice gives us a look into this contrasting picture, whilst Joe kicks off a debate about NATO, anti-imperialism, and whether Your Party and the Greens need to be more than simply pro-Palestine parties.
Reading:
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat - Hannah Proctor
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
The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante
Belgian Workers Party Congress Documents
New Times, New Circuits: Recovering Sivandan's Political Economy - John Narayan
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 Shows It Has Big Questions to Answer - Archie Woodrow
Disaster Nationalism - Richard Seymour
Theory of The Party - Phil A. Neel
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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 Feminism During De-industrialisation - Katrina Forrester
Greens Who Organise - Robert Magowan
Their End is Our Beginning - Brian Bean
Credits:
Design: Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.uk
Music: Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN
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 mentioned:
The Alternative - Zarah Sultana
Born for life, Marked for death - Max Shanley
Models of Organisational Democracy - Jante's Umarell
Party as Articulators - Salar Mohandesi