Zarah Sultana has announced her endorsement for the new Grassroots Left slate on X, sparking excitement in Your Party proto branches across the country.
Ahead of Your Party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections in March, Sultana has published a video of like-minded community organisers, teachers, and former Labour members who have committed to ensure that Your Party doesn’t become a ‘Labour 2.0’.
I’m backing the Grassroots Left slate in the Your Party CEC elections:
A member-led slate fighting for real democracy, empowering branches and members, ensuring transparency and accountability, and standing for socialist, anti-imperialist politics from the grassroots up.
Sign… pic.twitter.com/Z1ZZ8dDka3
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) January 11, 2026
Zarah Sultana shows tide is turning
The video launching the new slate has prompted fresh excitement among left-wing grassroots organisers after months of increasing division. Tensions have risen following repeated briefings and dodgy tactics deployed since the announcement of Corbyn and Sultana as co-leaders in July last year, which led to division among the membership.
In a sign that the tide is turning, the members on this new slate stated their credentials in this new video and named the numerous significant factors that have led them to stand for a seat on the CEC:
Zarah: I’m Zarah Sultana, and I’m a Your Party Member of Parliament.
Candi Williams: I’m a community activist and Your Party Bristol organiser.
Sophie Wilson: I’m a mother and an ex-Labour parliamentary candidate in a red royal seat.
Anwarul Khan: I’m a teacher.
Mel Mullings: I’m a community organiser, reparations campaigner and RMT union activist.
Sultana and fellow Your Party organisers passionately read the same statement in tandem, centering solidarity in a much needed and long overdue move for the fledgling party:
All: I’m standing for the CEC because I want a strong party that’s built from the ground up. I want to ensure we can build a party with strong local branches. With power in members’ hands. I want a party able to stand up for public ownership and real distribution.
I want to stand against war and imperialism. I want a party that stands unequivocally with Venezuela, Congo, Sudan, and Palestine, and all other places suffering at the hands of imperialism. I want a party that won’t betray the working class. A party where at least 50% of membership subs go straight to branches for local campaigns. Because branches know their communities. And communities win local struggles and fights.
The organisers make it clear that they’re here for grassroots organising:
Because we know socialism isn’t delivered from the top. It’s built together from below. We oppose NATO and the forever wars that politicians drag us into. We stand on picket lines with trade unions. And we’ll defend marginalised communities. And we confront the far right. Every time. Every time. Every time. Because if you come for one of us, you come for all of us. All of us. For all of us. All of us.
We didn’t leave the Labour Party to build another top-down machine. That means no more witch hunts. The grassroots left slate will fight for openness and accountability for recallable representatives – real member control. Together, we will build a democratic pluralist socialist party, one that can win power and never lose itself once it does. When you receive your ballot vote for the grassroots left; vote for the grassroots left; vote for the grassroots left.
And, it can only work when everyone pulls together:
You will get your data, your money, your candidate. Because it’s your party. Your party. Your party. Let’s win maximum member democracy. And build a party we can all be proud to call our own.
Brewing reports
The candidates endorsed on the new slate are listed on the official website for the group, with Jeremy Corbyn featuring. However, Corbyn is reportedly unhappy with this move:
New: Sources close to Jeremy Corbyn said he didn’t give permission for his name to be used on this slate and a specific request was put in that his name was not included. Sources said Corbyn is “very upset” that this was done without his consent. https://t.co/oiD9SBRPy5
— megan kenyon (@meganekenyon) January 11, 2026
Nevertheless, this move by Zarah Sultana and others appears to have breathed new life into the socialist movement, with others taking to X to announce their candidacies:
I’m standing for the Central Executive Committee alongside @zarahsultana, @dykeocletian and many others in the Grassroots Left to build @thisisyourparty into a radically democratic, mass socialist party fit for the 21st century & beyond. Join us! https://t.co/rrwhM3Zcl5 https://t.co/Ct5WJocm0r
— Max Shanly (@maxshanly) January 11, 2026
I’m proud to be standing on the Grassroots Left slate for the Your Party CEC elections alongside @Soph__wilson in Yorkshire & lots of other amazing comrades around the country.
It’s time for ordinary members to build the mass socialist party we desperately need
https://t.co/MfLVHWHmt3
— Chris Saltmarsh (@Chris_Saltmarsh) January 11, 2026
Teamwork: finally!
Another significant aspect to this launch is the very obvious collaborative work going on between multiple groups on the left to build this socialist party. Following the Your Party conference, we saw considerable splintering within the membership base following a very clear intention from the executive to exclude those in established leftist groups from being members. For instance, the ban of Socialist Workers Party members which was soon overwhelmingly voted down by members.
If this had not been blocked, committed and active community organisers would have been prevented from having a say in the direction of the party, when their wealth of experience and knowledge would have made them arguably instrumental for its future success.
Support Grassroots Left: a slate uniting numerous groups of Your Party members, including us in @DemSocsYP, around a common platform for maximum member democracy! You can read the platform here: https://t.co/jZEO4wVwJD https://t.co/HTYmxuj3se
— Duncan Davis (@duncanjdavis) January 11, 2026
Stronger together
A truly transformative socialist party will only work if it is embedded in the community, with members actively participating in the crucial work that has to be done. From picket lines to protests, a grassroots movement only works with actual grassroots work on the ground. This exciting new platform of the Grassroots Left represents a very welcome shift in domestic politics and has clearly revived considerable hope among socialists.
After all, doors will not knock themselves and division will not be healed if we don’t finally come together.
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