Your Party’s never-ending soap opera is still providing plenty of entertainment in 2026. Zarah Sultana has now backed yet another left-wing faction – “Grassroots Left” – which unveiled a slate of candidates last night for the Central Executive Committee elections. They’re calling for Your Party to “become a mass working-class socialist party rooted in communities, not a Westminster-style machine run from the top” and to hand power “back to the members”. A familiar slogan…
Union figures and Corbynite organisers are involved in the faction. Naturally it hasn’t taken long for complications to appear. The New Statesman reports that Jeremy Corbyn asked for his name to be kept out of the faction’s material – which was ignored. He’s “very upset” that ‘Grassroots Left’ is implying it has his support…
Meanwhile, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal may amount to “serious criminal activity” and could warrant referral to the police. Strong start to the year…
Read the Grassroots Left Slate below:
A new Grassroots Left Slate has launched for Your Party’s Central Executive elections, promising to shift power away from MPs and party insiders and put it back in the hands of members.
Backed by a broad coalition of socialist groups, grassroots organisations and prominent left-wing figures including Zarah Sultana MP, the slate says Your Party must become a mass working-class socialist party rooted in communities, not a Westminster-style machine run from the top.
Zarah Sultana MP, endorsed by the slate for a Public Office Holder seat on the CEC, said: “Members didn’t join to be spectators while decisions are stitched up at the top. This slate is about taking back control and building a party that fights for working people.”
The slate says local branches should get a guaranteed share of membership fees, full access to local membership data, and real autonomy to organise. It also backs recall and mandatory reselection for elected representatives, and says MPs should not hold senior party officer roles.
Mel Mullins, Chair of the RMT Reparations Committee and endorsed by the slate for the London region, said: “No more permission slips from above. Branches need the cash, the data and the power so we can organise and win.”
Grassroots Left is running on an explicit platform opposing austerity, racism and the far right, defending migrants, Muslims, trans and queer people, women and disabled people. Internationally, it says Your Party must take a clear anti-imperialist stance, oppose NATO, defend civil liberties and the right to protest, and stand for Palestinian liberation.
Max Shanly, who was Deputy Director of Operations for Corbyn’s leadership campaign in 2016, and endorsed by the slate for the South East region, said: “If a party won’t defend protest and civil liberties, it won’t change anything. We are standing for principles, not cowardice.”
The Grassroots Left slate platform and a full list of candidates can be found at grassrootsleft.org
The full list of candidates endorsed by the slate are:
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Zarah Sultana MP
Cllr Grace Lewis
Cllr Michael Lavalette
East of England
Riccardo La Torre
Solma Ahmed
East Midlands
Anwarul Khan
Anjona Roy
London
Anahita Zardoshti
Mel Mullings
North East
Ian Spencer
Myra Shoko
North West
Haifa Ali
Chloe Braddock
South East
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
Max Shanly
South West
Candi Williams
Mark Gage
West Midlands
Graham Jones
Megan Clarke
Yorkshire & The Humber
Chris Saltmarsh
Sophie Wilson
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