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A group of members have split from Your Party, citing frustration with Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and accusing the party of having “squandered the enormous promise of 800,000 signups last summer.”
On Sunday, 250 people – many of whom are members of Your Party’s branches in England, Scotland and Wales – joined a Zoom call and voted to found a new left-wing party, called Socialist Federation.
Among them were several members of Grassroots Left – the slate on which Zarah Sultana ran in the Your Party elections earlier this year – including the former Momentum organiser Max Shanly (though he briefly attended the conference, Shanly is not a member of the Socialist Federation). A source close to Sultana confirmed that she does not have any involvement in the founding of this new party.
Corbyn won election as the parliamentary leader of Your Party in late February this year with his slate The Many, winning 14 seats on the party’s Central Executive Committee, to Grassroots Left’s seven. Grace Lewis, a former independent councillor in Coventry, was also elected to the CEC alongside Sultana as part of the Grassroots Left slate, but has since quit the committee and is joining Socialist Federation. Lewis was elected as a public office holder, but lost her seat in the local elections and thereby quit the CEC.
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It's a grift. You get a special flag or logo to let people know that you transcended the tory/labour dichotomy and it signals your unique personality to other ideological nerds.
I've hustled in the Hackney and when you need to eat you don't pass around a union card you have a brother watch the door while you negotiate with the boss. You can bet none of my crew registered to vote.