Category: community

By Linda Wall? Around 20 YP branches have now held initial meetings. Most or all of these branches cover multiple parliamentary constituencies, and the numbers attending have been underwhelming to say the least. The new branches will have to work hard to find ways of engaging members if they’re to prevent numbers from falling off…

By Mike Foster The Peoples Alliance for Change and Equality (PACE) was formed two years ago and had its launch conference on May 10th 2025 with 300 in attendance and Jeremy Corbyn as the guest speaker. PACE is an alliance of local campaign groups fighting Kirklees Labour Council’s cuts and closures programme. These groups have had…

By Conor Rosoman The Green Party are now in overall control of Waltham Forest council in north London, despite never having had any councillors there before. The Greens had initially agreed not to stand against the left independents in Cathall ward, but they ended up standing paper candidates, one of whom was duly elected. Waltham…

By Jenny Nolan The Local elections in Birmingham have been grueling but educational for us. We supported eight YP endorsed candidates in six wards and of those two candidates were successful, Harris Khalid in Ward End and Nosheen Khaliq in Alum Rock. Two others in the Small Heath ward found themselves only 30 votes away…

By Jay Singh The Left candidate in this case was myself lol. (Jay stood as a Socialist and Trade Union Candidate in St Paul’s ward.) I had the help of a small but key group of several mostly young people who helped me with canvassing though admittedly due to time and scheduling constraints I ultimately…

By Callum Salfield Following recent changes in Your Party, particularly the decision to effectively ban dual membership, our local group in Chesterfield and North Derbyshire reached a turning point. Our proto branch had been built by a broad mix of activists from different political traditions, and that openness was key to growing a strong, active…

By Linda Wall On May 13th, 20 people from Your Party Wirral proto branch met to talk about the election results from around the country, and to consider proposals on the group’s future. A proposal to rename our public channels as Wirral Socialists and to open our email list and WhatsApp Community to others on…

By Callum As we have no ability to determine whether anybody is an official member of Your Party or not and we have been successful in our actions despite officialdom, we will welcome attendants regardless of membership. Your Party Reading is henceforth an open community activist party that all are welcome to with no restrictions.…

By ? One of the many reasons why Starmer lost the confidence of the British people was his position on Israel / Palestine. Andy Burnham wants us to believe​ that he will be different. But his appointment of James Purnell as his chief of staff has set alarm bells ringing. And he’s being careful not…

By Angie Ray With local elections less than 12 months away, independent councillors in Dover are watching closely to see if YP can prove its credibility. The inaugural Dover & Deal YP meeting on 27th June was attended by 14 people, which is fewer than we attracted to our proto branch, but we are quite…