ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
After last week’s episode on Parties, this time ACFM exposes the predicament facing Your Party, the new leftwing faction led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn.
What expectations do leftwing voters have for Your Party? Does the Corbyn faction distrust the membership? Is Zarah a politician or a poster? And does ‘Yorp’ stand a chance of overtaking the ascendant Greens? Nadia, Jem and Keir analyse a turbulent few months in British left politics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is acid man. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Nadia Idol and I'm joined as usual by my friend Jeremy Gilbert. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello. |
| 0:29.8 | And Kea Milburn. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello. |
| 0:32.1 | And on today's special microdose, we are talking about your party. |
| 0:40.4 | So guys, why do we want to talk about your party at this moment in time? Well, one reason for talking about this now is we just did |
| 0:47.0 | a main episode about the whole concept of the party, although that in itself was partly |
| 0:51.7 | inspired by current events. |
| 0:55.1 | And it's obviously been a massive preoccupation for people on the British left |
| 0:59.8 | in this autumn of 2025, this process that might or might not be leading up to the successful launch of a new socialist party, |
| 1:09.2 | happening at exactly the same time that an eco-socialist has |
| 1:13.7 | become leader of the Green Party and started attracting lots of support. And at the same time as it |
| 1:19.8 | looks like the right-wing control of the Labour Party is sort of breaking down in terms of moral |
| 1:25.2 | legitimacy, if not in terms yet of institutional control. |
| 1:29.4 | And it raises all kinds of issues about things that we talked about on the main episode |
| 1:33.7 | about the party in very immediate concrete terms to do with like, well, what is a political party? |
| 1:39.3 | What do we want it to do? Like, what do we want it to be? Like, how, what do we need it for, |
| 1:43.8 | etc. And we're all likely |
| 1:47.1 | to have different levels of relationship to this new, this thing that's happening that are |
| 1:51.7 | going to be worth thinking about, not just, not just because we're interested in this specific |
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