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
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1: Our Party? Who Really Has the Power?
Shanice, Joe and Jonas dive into all things democracy, examining Zarah Sultana’s saucy New Left Review interview, travelling way back to the Greek agora, and asking searching questions of Corbynism’s legacy. As the Your Party founding conference looms, they ask what real party democracy actually looks like?Readings:The Alternative - Zarah SultanaBorn for life, Marked for death - Max Shanley Models of Organisational Democracy - Jante's UmarellParty as Articulators - Salar Mohandesi Credits: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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