In the run up to Christmas Joe, Jonas, and Shanice answer your listener questions. Are we revolutionaries, what does that even mean? Should the left run as councillors? What does community organising mean? Why have some of the Independent Alliance remained in Your Party? We answer these questions, and more - as well as give you our favourite reads of 2025.

Readings:

Workers Can Win - Ian Allinson

Supermarket Struggle - Workers' Inquiry

⁠Pessimism of the Will - Asad Haider⁠

⁠New Model Island - Alex Niven⁠

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain - Sam Wetherell

Intermezzo - Sally Rooney

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Coming back from a wild weekend in Liverpool, Jonas gives us an insider account of the vibes, schisms and politics shaping the long-awaited founding conference of Your Party. Meanwhile Joe probes at critical questions: have the Green party completely over-shadowed Your Party? Should Your Party ditch elections and focus on the hard work of building popular power?

Reading:

The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante

Three Women - Lisa Taddeo

Social Infrastructure Proposals - Organising For Popular Power

Your Party Conference: Total Chaos or the Future of Democracy - Novara Media

As Your Party’s founding conference approaches, Joe breaks down the latest financial shenanigans and resignations, whilst Jonas makes the case that even if the launch has been a disaster, the historical opportunity presented by the crisis of British capitalism hasn’t been totally squandered.

Reading:

Melinda Cooper - Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance

Helen Walsh - Once Upon a Time in England

Oliver Eagleton - Your Party: The Return of the Left