With Your Party's regional assemblies in full swing Jonas breaks down the dynamics and debates shaping the grassroots of the party. Meanwhile, Shanice puts the debates about class and identity politics under the microscope; making the case you cannot understand the seismic and irresistible rise of Zohran Mamdani without taking seriously how class is felt through identity. But what are the lessons for the British left?ReadingWe Were There - Lanre BakareCan Apartheid Free Zones Help Liberate Palestine? - The Bristol CableMichael Lange's Substack
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5: Can Palestine Solidarity Win a Left Majority?
As Zack Polanski’s comms campaigning takes the Greens from strength to strength, Your Party releases its founding documents; with debates beginning at regional assemblies. Shanice gives us a look into this contrasting picture, whilst Joe kicks off a debate about NATO, anti-imperialism, and whether Your Party and the Greens need to be more than simply pro-Palestine parties.Reading:Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism & Race in Palestine - Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, Rafeef Ziadah Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat - Hannah Proctor Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm - Dan Charnas
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4: Can Economic Populism Beat Nigel Farage?
As the left turns to economic populism as the way to beat Farage, Jonas, Shanice and Joe explore it's potentials and imitations. Meanwhile, the Greens surge to 100,000 members, Joe tests the water at Green Party conference, and Zarah Sultana comes out gunning for the Greens at The World Transformed.ReadingOrganising for Popular Power - An Anti-Capitalism Base Building Tendency in Your PartyThe Neapolitan Novels - Elena FerranteBelgian Workers Party Congress DocumentsNew Times, New Circuits: Recovering Sivandan's Political Economy - John Narayan
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3: We Need New Leaders
What the f!#k has just happened with Your Party? Shanice, Joe and Jonas try their best to shake off their collective depression and get a handle on the drama and controversy underlying Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s very public fallout. How did we get here, and more importantly how the hell do we get out?Readings: Whose Party Is It Anyway - Archie WoodrowYour Party’s Messy Public Breakdown Shows It Has Big Questions to Answer - Archie WoodrowDisaster Nationalism - Richard SeymourTheory of The Party - Phil A. Neel
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2: Can Zack Polanski Break the Green Ceiling?
As Zack Polanski begins to make his mark scrapping with journalists and political opponents, Joe and Shanice disagree on where his biggest challenge will come from. Meanwhile the row between MPs Zarah Sultana and Adnan Hussain on trans politics raises critical questions about what Your Party stands for.Readings:Regime Change in the West - Perry AndersonIn and Against the State. Revolutionary Feminism During De-industrialisation - Katrina ForresterGreens Who Organise - Robert MagowanTheir End is Our Beginning - Brian BeanCredits:Design: Rachel Carr / rachelcarr.co.ukMusic: Benjamin Tissot / 9INTLNTLWTYTDKVN
Life of the Party takes you inside the debates, personalities and politics shaping the new left party in the UK. Hosts Shanice, Jonas and Joe bring critical analysis, unfiltered takes, and lively debates about Your Party, the Greens and the future of the left.
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