Programme
Building the New Left Party From Below
Nia Main Space
12.10.2025
12PM – 1:30PM
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How can the new left party root itself in everyday life, build powerful local branches and engage rank and file members?

This session explores how the new party should be structured at the local level, as well as considering practical strategies for local organising, branch building, and defending communities in order to rebuild working-class power.

Speakers

Joshua Virasami is Training and Organising Coordinator with London Renters Union. Local Groups, Campaigns and Supporter Engagement with Your Party. Author of How to Change it (Penguin) and A World without Racism (Pluto)

Joe was the head of communications for Momentum during the 2017 and 2019 elections. He founded the Movement Research Unit, which supports 80+ union branches and movement groups each year. He writes at joealextodd.substack.com

Shanice McBean is a writer and activist. Describing herself as an Afro-Marxist and revolutionary, she is a member of Sisters Uncut and co-author of the award winning book Abolition Revolution.

Writer and organiser based in Stoke-on-Trent, and author of forthcoming book, The Breaking of the English Working Class (Verso). Blogs at Marx’s Dream Journal.

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