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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 21h

New book. #YourParty: The Return of #TheLeft by #OliverEagleton. Contributions by @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social L.Mohamad, A.Murray, @alexnunns.bsky.social J.Schneider & @zarahsultana.bsky.social "a blueprint for a party...for the many" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
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Your Party

Your Party sets the agenda for Britain’s major new political outfit, which over 750,000 people have already registered to support. The book interviews key figures shaping the project: Zarah Sultana MP...

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you, but by no means all, may find this but one take from the UK revolutionary left on #YourParty. To me, it tells a story of factionalism & sectarianism which reminds me of my student years in the late 70's. I agree with Peadar & found it interesting - some things change & some don't!

Peadar Ó Catháin @peadar2753.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting, long (stick with it) article on UK #YourParty shenanigans by Jack Conrad in The Weekly Worker (the paper of one of the multitudinous British Communist Parties).
Don't necessarily agree with all of it but worthy of reading.
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1555/...

Neither king nor empress

There is no reason to take sides in what is an unsavoury power struggle between MPs. Meanwhile, Jack Conrad warns of an impending anti-left witch-hunt and calls for the left to unite around programme ...

weeklyworker.co.uk

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 1d

#FreePalestine

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

London universities walk out to mark two years of genocide in Gaza

Universities across London are marching against British 'complicity' in Israel's genocide in Gaza, with hundreds of students participating
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

London universities walk out to mark 'two years of genocide' in Gaza

Universities across London are marching against British 'complicity' in Israel's genocide in Gaza, with hundreds of students participating

www.thecanary.co

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 2d

This is SO good & nice. Thanks.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 2d

The #LabourParty under #KeirStarmer is toast. Smell the coffee #CliveLewis there's no coming back from this #ShitShow. Join us. For #RealChange #YourParty & our country need people like you.

Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 2d

If Labour is serious about stopping the authoritarian right from filling the vacuum, it must rebuild trust by breaking with the very culture that is feeding public cynicism.

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear

Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

bylinetimes.com

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huwjarvis @huwjarvis.bsky.social · 3d

... of course, it's not the ONLY thing holding back, but an excellent articulation nevertheless :-)

A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on @owenjones.bsky.social interviewed by @zackpolanski.bsky.social #LabourParty #LabourPartyUK have capitulating to the #Reform narrative & are toast.For #RealChange it's @greenparty.org.uk #TheGreens & 🤞🤞🤞 #YourParty #YourPartyUK BE PREPARED #MSM will do EVERYTHING to discredit our movement

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

You should be able to have a party which says "actually these are reasonable ideas... and the only thing holding it back is people not having faith and confidence that enough other people support those ideas" 👏👏👏

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on @owenjones.bsky.social interviewed by @zackpolanski.bsky.social #LabourParty #LabourPartyUK have capitulating to the #Reform narrative & are toast.For #RealChange it's @greenparty.org.uk #TheGreens & 🤞🤞🤞 #YourParty #YourPartyUK BE PREPARED #MSM will do EVERYTHING to discredit our movement

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

You should be able to have a party which says "actually these are reasonable ideas... and the only thing holding it back is people not having faith and confidence that enough other people support those ideas" 👏👏👏

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d

Zack Polanski has announced a policy no other political party dares to

Polanski is once again proposing solutions to capitalist problems while the Labour Party bury its head in the sand
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Zack Polanski has announced a policy no other political party dares to

Zack Polanski is once again proposing solutions to capitalist problems while the Labour Party bury their heads in the sand

www.thecanary.co

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 4d

#YourParty #YourPartyUK #FreePalestine

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

We will keep marching.
We will keep organising.
We will keep speaking up.

Until there is a permanent ceasefire.
Until the siege is lifted.
Until the occupation ends.
Until apartheid is dismantled.
Until the perpetrators of genocide are held to account.
Until Palestine is free 🇵🇸

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 4d

#oppose

A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 4d

#Starmer statement is #antisemitic – it suggests all #Jews support #Israel slaughter of #Palestinians civilians & crimes of starvation, torture, maiming & forced displacement. #YourParty #YourPartyUK @zackpolanski.bsky.social #Greens et al challenge such nonsense
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Starmer just made an antisemitic attempt to stop the Gaza protests

Starmer's statement is profoundly antisemitic, suggesting that all Jewish people support Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians

www.thecanary.co

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship.

Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing.

And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary.

Thank you Zack. 💪

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 6d

‪I know that Jewish communities in my constituency will be deeply affected and frightened by today’s horrific attack. ‬

‪Today, all of our communities must stand together, as we have done over the past decades, and speak with one united voice: there is no room for hatred. ‬

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 6d

I am shocked and appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day for the Jewish community.

My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 6d

Questions are being raised over why Zarah Sultana was left off the party’s registration papers

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/your...

Your Party registers with Electoral Commission and lists Jeremy Corbyn as ‘sole leader’

Many are asking why Zarah Sultana hasn’t been listed on the party’s registration papers

leftfootforward.org

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Mike Silver @mikesilver76.bsky.social · 7d

youtu.be/TcVo2sezmiw?... we need to talk about #adnanHussain #yourparty

The Adnan Hussain situation

YouTube video by No Justice

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 7d

#KierStarmer on #radio4 basically saying he changed the #LabourParty to make it more racist & that's why he won the election. FACT = #LabourPartyUK under #Starmer got 6M & then 600,000 LESS votes than 2 elections under leadership of #JeremyCorbyn. For #RealChange sign up #YourParty #YourPartyUK

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 10d

Fair enough, there ARE tensions. That said maybe too linear & binary an analysis? We surely acknowledge that the prevelant #SociallyConservative #hegemony also includes larger no. of & from a #WhiteWrorkingClass trad #SocialistTradition. #IMHO #JeremyCorbyn & his team need to better reflect this

A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 10d

#GreenParty leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social on #Socialism @zarahsultana.bsky.social #ZarahSultana #TheGreens @greenparty.org.uk & #YourParty #YourPartyUK

Pod Save the UK @podsavetheuk.crooked.com · 11d

Want to hear more about what the Green Party is offering?

Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods.

#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 10d

It was indeed. There will be some Labour Party members for whom YP is the only realistic alternative.

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 10d

Personally, in truth I'm really torn & I guess I'll decide when I see what comes out of the Nov. conference, together with where the Greens end up when dust over Zack's leadership victory settles.

A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 11d

#Progressive, #compassionate, #ethical #LabourConference delegates. #SmellTheCoffee. It's the end of an era, but with it can bring a new start of #RealChange. Sign up to #YourParty #YourPartyUK.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17d

It seems like Lucy Powell
is copying Keir Starmer
adopting leftish policies
to get elected Deputy leader
(and then like him
ditching them all)

#SocialistSunday

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