Autorentext

Oliver Eagleton is Managing Editor of Phenomenal World and author of The Starmer Project, hailed as ‘original and insightful’ by the Guardian and ‘enjoyably hostile’ by the Economist. He is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and also writes for the Guardian, New York Times, New Left Review and Jacobin. He lives in London.

Klappentext

Your Party sees leading figures make the case for Britain’s major new political project, laying out the challenges ahead and how to surmount them. Oliver Eagleton interviews Zarah Sultana MP; Leanne Mohamad, who came within 500 votes of unseating Labour’s Wes Streeting at the last general election; Stop the War co-founder Andrew Murray; Our Bloc author James Schneider; Andrew Feinstein, who took on Keir Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras in 2024; and former Corbyn speechwriter Alex Nunns.

Delineated in these pages is a left-wing programme opposed to austerity, inequality and war, an agenda fit to oppose both authoritarian centrists and the hard right. The discussion addresses the need to balance parliamentary politics with social movements, short-term aims with long-term ambitions, and centralised structures with grassroots participation.

In his introduction, Eagleton lays bare the abject failure of Starmer’s Labour government, explaining why a new socialist party is not only possible but urgently needed. Over 750,000 people have registered to support Your Party. This book is essential reading on the new insurgent force at Westminster and beyond.

Inhalt

Introduction - Oliver Eagleton

1. The Alternative - Zarah Sultana
2. Building the Party - James Schneider
3. Force of Opposition - Andrew Murray
4. Britain After Gaza - Leanne Mohamad
5. Lessons of Corbynism - Alex Nunns
6. A New Politics - Andrew Feinstein
   Afterword - Jeremy Corbyn