Ahead of an important online meeting, HILARY SCHAN, CARL WALKER and MARGARET HOWARD of Worthing Independents discuss how integrating left-wing councillors within the new party could have a transformative effect

VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence

MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana discuss the formation of a new leftwing party 

EDMUND GRIFFITHS makes a robust defence of sortition, the chosen method of picking attendees for the new left party’s inaugural conference from the membership at random, but sounds the alarm on the eye-watering number of suggested delegates

It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR