It is blindingly obvious that Your Party has confirmed itself as a backward-looking entity dominated by scions of the former Labour left. This was the inevitable outcome of the majority of the British left’s obsession with electoral politics: all those who championed the party’s creation were determined to push it as an electable parliamentary alternative to Reform UK for those who would no longer support the Labour Party. Yet no one is prepared to take responsibility for its resulting impotence.
The culprits include those who heralded its launch with unrestrained enthusiasm such as the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Socialist Workers’ Party and, of course, Zarah Sultana. All consistently insisted that Jeremy Corbyn had to be in the leadership and that without him Your Party would be a non-starter. They pointed to the 800,000 enthusiastic responses following Sultana’s resignation from the Labour Party in July 2025. Yet the role of Corbyn and his allies was to fragment this potential unruly support through delay, bureaucratic manoeuvres and threats of lawfare. Corbyn performed this reactionary role beyond all expectations. We now see the inevitable consequences: an organisation controlled by an anonymous clique of unaccountable hirelings, while most of those who wanted something new have now flocked to the Green Party, seduced by leader Zack Polanski’s superficial radicalism.
From Your Party’s establishment in summer 2025, FRFI fought for a clear political line: unless Your Party’s fledgeling membership had the courage to ditch Corbyn’s parliamentary backwardness, it would become the ‘embodiment of reactionary Labour left politics of the past’ (FRFI 307) adding that ‘Corbyn wants a party which is no more than a left outrider to the Labour Party’ (FRFI 308). All this has come to pass. Your Party’s newly-elected Central Executive Committee (CEC) is dominated by Corbyn’s The Many faction with 14 seats, as against the seven of Sultana’s Grassroots Left. Its first meeting took less than two and a half hours, with some CEC members attending via Zoom. Attendees included paid employees – and unsurprisingly no one knows who they all are, how they have been appointed, or what their roles are. It was a clear statement that the CEC will not be a serious body, and that key decisions will be made elsewhere.
Yet the left is completely responsible for this fiasco. While the RCG waged a lone struggle to drag the political issues into the open by directly confronting Corbyn, the rest of the left insisted that Corbyn had to be a leader of this party and was content to make political concessions to ensure no obstacle was put in his path. The RCP bombastically declared in July 2025 that ‘we will be mobilising our members to help make a success of this new – much-needed – party’ but then rapidly ducked out of the political battle that was required, declaring a plague on everybody’s house.
The SWP told us that ‘we support the broadest and most determined push for a socialist electoral alternative to the toxic set-up we have today. We urge everyone on the left to take part in the discussions to make this happen quickly’; but like the RCP it refused to dirty its hands in any serious political struggle. Instead it drew on its deep well of sycophancy toward the Labour left, and reiterated its unstinting support for Corbyn’s leadership.
The SWP now complains about ‘the unelected and unaccountable clique that has run the Your Party apparatus from the outset [which] has asserted full control’ (Socialist Worker 12 March) but it has never once confronted Corbyn over his leadership of this clique or his thoroughly reactionary politics (see FRFI 309). Both the RCP and the SWP intentionally minimised the political differences that emerged between Corbyn and Sultana so they could avoid taking sides and chain any progressive forces within Your Party to the dead weight of the old Labour left. Zarah Sultana also refused to confront Corbyn openly, repeatedly singing his praises as a supposed anti-imperialist and like the SWP, avoiding any criticism of his reactionary stance. With the CEC firmly in Corbyn’s hands, she and her allies in Your Party have been backed into a corner of what is now clearly a shadow Labour Party.
