Cosmopod Your Party Founding Conference: Fiasco or Triumph? [Stream audio]
This is the audio of the Cosmostream of December 7th 2025 on Your Party with guests Bryce Bailey and Charlie Porter from the Democratic Socialists of Your Party. We cover the origins of Your Party, why the guests have chosen to intervene in YP and not the Greens and what kind of intervention they are performing and the kinds of politics they are looking towards. We also cover the contested process of formation of YP, the sects and factions involved, the intricacies of the founding conference and what kind of limitations it had as well as DYSP as a group and its principles.
Core reading:
Archie W commissioned by Novara media Ewan T on DSYP's vision for Your Party Ewan C on DSYP's structure Kieran G on DSYP's strategy Founding conference
Background reading:
Corbyn argues against a centralised party after the 2024 general election in an Guardian article
Guardian article on one of the first of Collective's secret conferences:
The big TWT factions: https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/democratic-socialists/ https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/the-democratic-bloc/ https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/organising-for-popular-power/ https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/trans-liberation-group/ https://prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/22/greater-manchester-left-caucus/
Socialist Unity Platform: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1562/all-out-for-liverpool/ https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1564/ideas-unity-action/
Inacio on the crowdediting process: https://inacioinvita.substack.com/p/protecting-your-partys-crowdediting
Founding Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk0FjNyvfgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UrxGlrFRpg