Around the world, workers and young people are taking to the streets to fight back against governments which defend the crisis-ridden system of capitalism.
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s July call to establish a new party to ‘take on the rich and powerful’ got 800,000 sign-ups. This is an indication of the huge enthusiasm there is for a new party that can fight against Keir Starmer’s war and austerity agenda.
Debates and discussions have begun about how such a party could be built and best succeed in taking on the interests of the rich and powerful, and fight for socialist change.
The recently released founding political statement of Your Party calls for “a mass party”, “with the working class at its heart”. Coming just two weeks before the Your Party founding conference in Liverpool, Socialism 2025 is going to be the event of the Autumn to discuss how that mission – of putting the working class at the heart of the new party, and arming it with a socialist programme to take on the capitalist system – can be achieved.
What is the role of the working class and trade union movement in preparing Your Party to take on the interests of the rich and powerful? How can it be built as a genuinely democratic voice for workers, students and young people? How can Your Party best prepare to launch an anti-austerity fightback at May’s elections to push back Reform UK? And what role could Your Party play in the struggle for the socialist transformation of society?
All of this and more will be discussed and debated at Socialism 2025.
The centrepiece of Socialism 2025 will be the main rally on the Saturday evening, bringing together hundreds of trade unionists, students, community campaigners and socialists to hear about how ‘Your Party’ can be built as a party of working-class struggle and socialism.
Main rally: Saturday 15 November, 5.30-7.30pm:
How can Your Party be built as a party of working class struggle and socialism?
Speakers:
- Hannah Sell, Socialist Party general secretary
- Zarah Sultana, Your Party and Independent Alliance MP
- Dave Nellist, socialist former Labour MP and Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition national chair
- A leader of the Birmingham bin workers’ strike
- Ian Hodson, president of the BFAWU trade union
- Leïla Messaoudi, France Insoumise councillor, Rouen
- April Ashley, National Black Members’ Seat on executive of the UNISON trade union (personal capacity)
- Sofia Pandolfi, organiser of the Trump walk out student protests
Sunday 16 November, 3-4.15pm:
The struggle for socialism worldwide
Speakers:
- Tony Saunois, CWI secretary
- Chiara, young socialist activist in Die Linke, Germany
- Bob Labi, CWI International Secretariat
- Padraig Mulholland, deputy general secretary of NIPSA, the biggest trade union in Northern Ireland
Italian dockworker from Gaza strike, tbc
