Discussions that demystify the politics, people, ideas, structures and dynamics around a potential new left party in the UK. Our aim is to enable more people to be part of building the organisation we need.
The New Party Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Tom Williams, Andrew Jeffery, Kallum Pembro
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Discussions that demystify the politics, people, ideas, structures and dynamics around a potential new left party in the UK. Our aim is to enable more people to be part of building the organisation we need.
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May 30, 2026
#21 Community organising: Part 1
<p>In the first of a short series of episodes exploring the topic of community organising, Sonali Bhattacharyya joins Tom to discuss anti-raids organising in Waltham Forest. How does a group form? What else in the wider ecosystem needs to be considered and engaged with? What works? What makes it sustainable and effective? Sonali talks generously and honestly about what she has learned and what we can all learn and do. The need for anti-raids organising is particularly acute at this moment, and there is much in this discussion that shows how interconnected and important other forms of community organising are in making this ground-level work effective. There is a lot of insight into the practicalities and what makes things work which listeners will find useful in their own activity.</p><p><br></p><p>Links mentioned in the episode:</p><p>Anti-Raids Network https://antiraids.net/</p><p>Everybody to Kenmure Street (doc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_to_Kenmure_Street</p><p>Suburban Socialism by Oliver Durose https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696636/suburban-socialism-by-oly-durose/</p><p>Defend The Community Organising Unit: Activists into Organisers by Tom Williams https://newsocialist.org.uk/activists-organisers/</p><p><br></p>
April 18, 2026
#20 Your Party now
<p>In this episode we revisit Your Party via two previous guests who were involved in organising within the party to learn about what has happened and what we might want to do next.</p><p>Max Shanly wrote some of the most influential arguments ahead of the founding conference and produced actual working documents that added a level of development much less often reached. These things and further organising led to being deeply involved with groups that formed the Grassroots Left slate in the CEC elections. But after the slate associated with Corbyn and the party's bureaucracy won out the party has taken a different direction. Max talks about what has happened and what should be next.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@maxshanly/the-after-party-d2ecc3a29170"><u>The After Party</u></a></p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@maxshanly/towards-a-new-model-left-party-5947dc71b727"><u>Towards a New Model Left Party</u></a></p><p>Andrew Hedges' was also very involved in organising around YP, albeit from some different positions, but also ended up looking beyond Your Party. After having studied and written up a critical account of the Green Party he has subsequently joined it, along with other socialists, seeing it as a more productive place to be. He takes us through the reasoning along with assessments of the Labour Party, the wider landscape, and with a maintained critical eye on the Green Party itself.</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rOW9kfOkHfDXaZoTwcqSUEc2HhER7Tgj19EH-fi68pA/edit?tab=t.0"><u>Contingency, contradictions and change in the Green Party of England and Wales</u></a></p><p>Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi's CEC report, mentioned in the first half:</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AvWXQybOIi2mOMGQAB4cJs42TgXbFg8jd2awRCu3dtc/edit?tab=t.0"><u>Full CEC Meeting Report - 12th April</u></a></p><p><br></p>
April 4, 2026
#19 Class—Part 3
<p>This is the final episode of this series with Tom Gann exploring how Marx understood class, and how we can understand class. There is a lot covered in this interesting and useful discussion, including thinking about the complexities of working class groups interests or needs in relation to those of groups in the global south; the role of cheap food in the British class system; what happens with permanent increased costs of energy and other essentials; remembering that action precedes consciousness; and what to do with the middle and upper classes. Get stuck in!</p><p>Check out our guest Tom's co-publication and writing here:</p><p>https://newsocialist.org.uk/</p><p><br></p>
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