Stories of conflict continue at Your Party’s Founding conference. Zarah Sultana has apparently boycotted the first day over exclusions. This appears quite bizarre but take a look at this video – it appears that exclusions are made on spurious grounds. The party doesn’t – or perhaps hardly – exists, who is making these exclusions?
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Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, addresses protesters during a Stop Trump Coalition protest in Parliament Square, London, on day one of the US President’s second state visit to the UK, September 17, 2025
Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend
ZARAH SULTANA is up for the fight. After a bruising few months which would have broken many a political veteran, the young Muslim socialist is still brimming with hope for the new party she has co-founded.
As Your Party heads for its debut conference in Liverpool, she believes that the left is on the brink of something historic, trials and tribulations notwithstanding.
Sultana’s theme, speaking to the Morning Star two days ago, is empowerment — of the members in the new party, and of the working-class communities they seek to serve in society.
Her measure of a successful conference is one where “members feel that it is being shaped by them, not MPs.”
It will also be about “putting a structure in place where they can organise in their communities and win seats in May’s elections.” The basic pitch remains clear: “The government serves the interests of the Elon Musks of this world. It is the working class bearing the burden, as it has for 15 years.
“People want a challenge to the status quo, they need a party that will be fighting for workers’ rights, on climate change, on challenging those who have enabled a genocide, on fighting for civil liberties.”
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“I see no evidence that the government has changed its course. They are still passing PFI deals, still attacking disabled people, changing the rules to make it harder for asylum-seekers. The government is still on a trajectory of attacking the most vulnerable while rolling out a red carpet for Nigel Farage.”
Sultana wants delegates to leave Liverpool with a spring in their step, “feeling empowered, believing that conference was a healthy democratic event, that they have made new connections with people in their communities and regions, and part of a party that is going to win in May and beyond.”
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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Zarah Sultana at the supporters’ event in County Durham. Photo: Neil Terry Photography
ZARAH SULTANA has said Your Party must be “explicitly socialist” as she argued the new left-wing party must “embrace class war.”
The independent MP, who co-launched Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn in July, made the comments at a supporters’ event in County Durham on Saturday.
She said: “You can’t beat far-right politicians and fascism by ignoring them, or, as the Labour Party are doing, copying them.
“You do it by uniting the working class around a positive vision, and by building a movement that is broad and rooted in solidarity.
“People don’t want or need cultural wars — they need hope they need material improvements in their lives.
“What I’m saying is, we need socialism. We need to be explicitly socialist.
“That is not tweaking here and there. It’s not just lowering a few bills and a wealth tax just sprinkled on top, but it is a fundamental transformation of our society: the working class controlling the wealth that they produce and the means of production in their hands.
“We need an anti-Nazi anti-fascist league for the 21st century.”
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Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, addresses protesters during a Stop Trump Coalition protest in Parliament Square, London, on day one of the US President’s second state visit to the UK, September 17, 2025
Zarah Sultana at the supporters’ event in County Durham. Photo: Neil Terry Photography
