Corbynism vs Partyism: the rise and demise of Your Party

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and outcomes surrounding the formation and recent elections involving Your Party.

Charlie and Bryce rejoin Donald and Jack for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference. We discuss the recent local elections, which show massive losses for Labor and gains for Reform and Greens. Then we go into the challenges around the formation of Your Party, divided between a grassroots left and Corbynism. Was this project a complete failure? Is there any hope that it can be salvaged and the project of building a principled mass socialist party carried forward? Links: Please Support University of Sheffield striking staff! Democratic Socialists – Campaign for a Democratic Socialist Party

People in this episode

Hosts: Charlie, Bryce

Guests: Donald, Jack

Topics covered

• Corbynism
• Your Party
• local elections
• socialism
• political challenges

Keywords

• Your Party
• Corbynism
• local elections
• Labor
• Reform
• Greens
• socialist party

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Your Party, Labor, Reform, Greens, University of Sheffield, Democratic Socialists, Democratic Socialist Party

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