Ex-Your Party activists form new Socialist Federation
250 delegates representing Your Party branches and former branches across England, Scotland and Wales met in an online conference on 31 May and launched the Socialist Federation.
Delegates included representatives of groups in London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Coventry, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Essex, North Devon, Dundee, Newcastle and Cumbria.
Attendees said they’d comprehensively lost patience with Jeremy Corbyn and his close-knit entourage, who failed to build on the promise of the mass signups to a new party initiative in summer 2025.
And the assembled members and ex members of Your Party agreed to create an initial federal organisation with the aim of rallying forces to establish a new socialist and working class party, independent of Labour and the Greens.
Socialist Federation spokesperson Joseph O’Connor Meldau (aka Raz O’Connor) said:
The Socialist Federation brings together people from all over the country who have been building socialist groups in their local areas.
Some did so as part of the wave of enthusiasm that met the announcement of Your Party last year, when 800,000 people expressed an interest in a new political force that was explicitly socialist.
The enthusiasm around Your Party was ruined by the actions of Jeremy Corbyn and his allies, but we have learned we don’t need celebrity politicians to organise things for us.
It is the grassroots activists building power in working class communities and workplaces that have always been the heart of the socialist movement, not bureaucratic leaders.
The Socialist Federation plans a further national conference on 28 June to finalise its structure and policy proposals, prior to an in-person Congress in the Midlands in the autumn.
Featured image via Christopher Furlong / Getty Images
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It was the ZS early portal launch which created the big problem. Driscol’s actions prior to leaving for Green Party were fairly undermining. 250 isn’t alot of people for a mass movement and I doubt if the continuous griping about YP will help its growth and personal attacks about Corbyn don’t really inspire. Better to decide what they agree on with YP. The Canary is now part owned by a millionaire who has net wealth of £45 million( used cars, tech entrepreneur , property platform) . The Canary is no longer a co operative as it was when started by Kerry Anne Mendoza. It has been pro Green ( who are not necessarily socialist) and much writing appears to me to be biased against YP. Possibly as Corbyn is a threat to a millionaire run political system who are now are embedded in the direction of The Canary
Thnk you, that’s very useful. Who is the new owner?
It is Cecil Hetherington, founder of Northern Irish website Used Cars NI and chair of home sales platform Propertypal, was appointed a director of the newsbrand in Augus
https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/digital-entrepreneur-takes-3pc-stake-in-reach
Looks like Canary is finished as an independent voice. YP attacked from left and right. And we STILL hear nothing from either ZS or JC. Are there any competent political leaders anywhere?
Who owns The Canary:
https://open.substack.com/pub/naj562/p/who-owns-the-canary?r=zh4eu&utm_medium=ios
Totally agree. Criticizing a party (and it’s leaders) for not being numerous and split it as a solution doesn’t make sense to me. I am also wondering where new pro Zionism funding are currently poured into: into which organisation, media and political party. Corbyn is the only important politic following UN condemn against current Israel’s government, calling a genocide for what it is, and demanding actions (not empty words and collusion) from the UK government. Minimising his importance and party will have specific consequences.
The demise of YP lies firmly with Corbyn and the control freaks who support him.
Every socialist organisation has ditched YP because it is completely undemocratic. A Labour Party Mk 2. Having a go at the Canary doesn’t change the facts of the matter.
Good luck to activists trying to build a genuine, democratic left opposition to Labour and the Greens.
250 was actually 110 people on the call/meeting. They must have thought 110 sounded like just a small group of bitter individuals that have 1 failed coup under their belts.
250. The Canary have been sloppy with fact checking – again!
https://open.substack.com/pub/naj562/p/who-owns-the-canary?r=zh4eu&utm_medium=ios
250. The Canary have been sloppy with fact checking – again!
https://open.substack.com/pub/naj562/p/who-owns-the-canary?r=zh4eu&utm_medium=ios
I’m getting really weary of the sniping and comments about “Corbyn’s entourage”. Best if they go and form their new party. This endless demand for political purity is such a destructive force.
That’s exactly what I say, it’s the people’s party and Jeremy’s entourage mostly former Momentum have done nothing but stall Your Party from getting off the ground. The fact we still don’t have regional YP members group says it all, they are refusing to share the data even though permission has been given.
This is really frustrating. My nearest (London) proto-branch has been very upset that Marxists aren’t allowed to be in their party and in YP and can’t wait to split off again. If they’d got actual local groups going we might have avoided this. I want a real branch!
Didn’t know this. I am still new in the UK .Thank you.
Everyone has already left YP. The only irrelevant clique on the Left are the people who still run it.
If we’re talking numbers, what happened to the 800,000 who signed up for YP? And the current number of members that Corbyn & Co. guard like a secret that needs guarding secretly by an unelected bunch of sycophants.
Let’s face it, we’re all sick of YP. Long may it fester in the dustbin of history.
This is another sloppy one-sided article by the Canary, with yet more unsubstantiated accusations and smears against Jeremy Corbyn. Your Party is just getting started, and now the saboteurs and entryists are going their own way, YP will thrive.
Currently YP are below 1% in opinion polls. “Thrive” is ambitious to say the least.
Well, you can take the Jezza out of the Labour Party but you can’t take the Labour Party out of the Jezza. Parliamentarism is the birth defect of the Labour Party; rather than raising points of order at PMQ’s, the left should be on the streets and in the workplaces.