Your Party Founding Conference: Fiasco or Triumph? [Stream audio]

About this episode

The episode discusses the founding conference of Your Party with insights from guests Bryce Bailey and Charlie Porter.

This is the audio of the Cosmostream of December 7th 2025 on Your Party with guests Bryce Bailey and Charlie Porter from the Democratic Socialists of Your Party. We cover the origins of Your Party, why the guests have chosen to intervene in YP and not the Greens and what kind of intervention they are performing and the kinds of politics they are looking towards. We also cover the contested process of formation of YP, the sects and factions involved, the intricacies of the founding conference and what kind of limitations it had as well as DYSP as a group and its principles. Core reading: Archie W commissioned by Novara media Ewan T on DSYP's vision for Your Party Ewan C on DSYP's structure Kieran G on DSYP's strategy Founding conference Background reading: Corbyn argues against a centralised party after the 2024 general election in an Guardian article Guardian article on one of the first of Collective's secret conferences : After Memorandum of Understanding takes over the party-building process from Collective, Andrew Feinstein and Jamie Driscoll outline their vision for a Party The big TWT factions: https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/democratic-socialists/…

People in this episode

Guests: Bryce Bailey, Charlie Porter

Topics covered

• political intervention
• party formation
• Democratic Socialists
• Your Party
• political factions
• founding conference

Keywords

• Your Party
• Democratic Socialists
• founding conference
• political intervention
• party politics
• factions
• DYSP

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Democratic Socialists of Your Party, Cosmonaut Magazine, Novara media, Prometheus Journal, Socialist Unity Platform

Books & works: Guardian article, Corbyn argues against a centralised party, Collective's secret conferences

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