Jeremy Corbyn, with Zarah Sultana (right) speaking at a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025
THOUSANDS are set to gather in Liverpool on Saturday for the eagerly awaited inaugural Your Party conference.
Delegates selected through a sortition process, designed to ensure fair representation, will travel from around the country to debate the party’s founding documents at the ACC arena.
With a membership of 50,000, the party is the largest socialist party in Britain in 80 years.
There are hopes the conference will draw a line under the disputes and infighting that have marred the party’s launch.
These included the launch of rival membership systems, disputes over funds, and saw two of the original six MPs involved walk away from the project.
This weekend, members will agree on a founding statement asserting the party’s principles, a constitution and an organisational strategy.
They will also vote on a new leadership model for the party, and decide whether it will be led by a single leader until late 2027, or a “collective leadership model.” No option for co-leadership will be on the ballot.
Zarah Sultana spoke to Socialist Worker ahead of the Your Party conference
‘Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic,’ she told Socialist Worker
Zarah Sultana issued a rallying call for the left to unite and fight ahead of the Your Party founding conference in Liverpool this weekend.
She told Socialist Worker, “Labour is plummeting in the polls because this government has failed the working class.
“It has failed to help people here at home—and it has alienated thousands if not millions by materially participating in the genocide in Gaza.
“Reform UK is exploiting that anger, but it’s just the establishment in disguise.
“Farage scapegoats migrants to distract from his neoliberal economic agenda.
“We have a duty to offer a real alternative. Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic.
“We must build a party robust enough to take on entrenched power and win.
“No more tinkering at the edges—we need to reconstruct our society from first principles. We need socialism.
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
“We must fight, we must unite and we must win.”
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Police have arrested protesters on suspicion of supporting the banned group Palestine Action outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool.
About 100 people gathered silently on Sunday to hold signs reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”, according to protest organisation Defend Our Juries, who said there were dozens of arrests.
Palestine Action was banned as a terror organisation in July after it claimed responsibility for an action in which two planes were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire the previous month.
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A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said: “We’ve come to remind everyone that the Labour party is in breach of its duty to act to prevent genocide under international law.
“Instead it made the cowardly decision to ban the direct action group that was trying to prevent genocide.
“Labour members and trades unions are overwhelmingly against their party’s complicity in genocide and the ban on Palestine Action.
“Yet party officials have shut down all the debates that members wanted to have on these issues during their conference.
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Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Vote Labour for Genocide.
Over 100 people are expected to challenge the ban on Palestine Action and the party’s complicity in genocide outside Labour’s conference
Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing for the government on first day of conference
Labour officials rejected all 30 motions on Palestine
70% of Labour members oppose the ban and TUC has voted to reverse it
Over 100 ordinary citizens are expected to risk arrest under terrorism laws outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool at 2:30pm this Sunday by peacefully holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’.
The ban on Palestine Action is hugely unpopular with Labour members with 71% saying they oppose the ban. Trades Unions also oppose the ban. At their annual conference earlier this month the Trades Union Congress voted unanimously to reverse the ban.
When Jack Straw brought in the Terrorism Act 2000 he assured the House of Commons that it would never be used against a protest group.
Many Labour Lords and MPs feel they have been misled and have called on ministers to rethink the “unsustainable and unworkable” “authoritarian attack of the right to protest”. The New York Times has published the intelligence services assessment on Palestine Action which undermines the government’s claims that the group poses a danger to the public. Lawyers have accused former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper of conducting “a cynical media campaign.”
Despite the evident hunger to discuss the genocide in Gaza, the Labour government’s complicity and their ban on a domestic nonviolent protest group, party officials have ruled out all 30 motions on Palestine submitted by local branches.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said:
“Labour members and trades unions are against their party’s complicity in genocide and the ban on Palestine Action. Yet party officials have shut down all the debates that members wanted to have on these issues during their conference.
“Defend Our Juries will bring the “Lift The Ban” campaign to the door of the party that continues to deny genocide and has banned the direct action group that was trying to prevent it.
“The action will pose a dilemma for the Merseyside Police: prioritise human rights and community relations like Police Scotland and other forces around the UK, or trample over fundamental rights to protest and free expression like the Met Police by arresting over 100 peaceful sign-holders under this ridiculous ban.
Labour has reneged on Jack Straw’s promise that the Terrorism Act he introduced would never be used against a domestic protest group. Unless the law is redrawn and the ban overturned, any group that this government or a future government does not like could be treated as terrorists. This ban cannot and will not stand.
“The government has misled the public and MPs about why Palestine Action was proscribed. Instead of shutting down protest, it’s time the Labour Party took the responsibility to prevent genocide seriously and impose blanket sanctions on Israel including stopping the flow of arms from factories in this country.”
Labour government’s genocide denial
Last week the UN Commission of Inquiry found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Yet the Labour government continues to say that “any formal determination as to whether genocide has occurred should be made following a judgment by a competent national or international court.”
The UN report rejects this position noting that “Since at least January 2024, when the International Court of Justice ordered its first provisional measures, all states… have been on notice of a serious risk that genocide was being or would be committed.”
The UK government has therefore been negligent of its obligations under the Geneva Convention to prevent and punish genocide.
Keir Starmer says he will “jealously and fiercely” protect free speech
Despite recent mass arrests of over 1,600 people for peacefully holding cardboard signs, and scenes of an 83 year old Anglican priest being led into a police van, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in his recent press conference with US president Donald Trump, said: “free speech, it’s one of the founding values of the United Kingdom and we protect it jealously and fiercely and always will.”
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obst ructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAVote Labour for Genocide.
Jeremy Corbyn, with Zarah Sultana (right) speaking at a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025
