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Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana refuses to enter group's conference hall (news.sky.com)

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Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.

Ms Sultana co-founded Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn in July, but the new movement has been marred with infighting from the outset.

There was a row on the eve of conference after it emerged members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) had been expelled from Your Party, as its rules do not permit dual membership.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Imagine taking such a hard line stance on including a bunch of rape apologists in your political project.

[–] sapient_cogbag 2 points 2 weeks ago

The whole thing is a gigantic clusterfuck all around (also fuck the SWP, they're really bad, rape apologia barely covers it tbh, there's also more general abuse, hyper-centralisation and authoritarianism, and cult tactics[^barely]). I have very little expectations of political parties anyway (given my bizarre flavour of anarchism) but it's fucking mental how much infighting, toleration of bigotry, power-struggles, and general clusterfuckery there is in "Your Party".

[^barely]: https://thenorwichradical.com/2024/05/31/socialist-workers-party-explainer-comrade-delta/ I also recommend following the links and stuff nya, I'm also sure there's more on the internet but it can be hard to find because the SWP have search-engine-optimised themselves to such a degree that searching is difficult.