Sultana’s Path to Leadership Faces Hurdles and Hope
Here’s the story as it’s unfolding now. Zarah Sultana, one of the co-founders of the new left-wing movement known as Your Party , has openly acknowledged that she may face “obstacles” if she decides to stand in any upcoming leadership contest. She shared these thoughts during an online Democratic Socialists for Your Party meeting, speaking with the kind of blunt honesty that has become her trademark.
Sultana didn’t pretend the journey would be smooth. After what she called “all the crap” the party has been through — the infighting, the public rows, the messy organisational struggles — she said it’s only realistic to expect resistance. Interestingly, she made it clear that any blockade wouldn’t come from Jeremy Corbyn, her co-founder, but from the people running the machinery of the party: those organising conferences, drafting documents, staffing events, and setting internal rules. In other words, the structural gatekeepers rather than the political allies.
What she did highlight, though, is her preference for a co-leadership model. She believes shared leadership could give the movement more balance and stability, especially in a party still trying to find its feet. But she admitted that the internal environment being created around them makes the process “very hard” right now. Still, she insists she’ll keep going.
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This conversation is happening at a complicated moment for Your Party. What was once launched with huge enthusiasm — 800,000 people initially expressing interest — now has around 50,000 paid-up members. That number isn’t small, but it’s a reminder of how quickly internal disputes can dim early optimism. Meanwhile, the Green Party, now surging under its new leader Zack Polanski, has stepped directly into the electoral space Your Party hoped to dominate. Polls even show the Greens overtaking Labour on the broader left, something once considered unlikely.
The party also faces deeper challenges: a lack of clear theoretical direction, limited engagement from major trade unions, and internal divisions that flare up just when progress seems possible. Even some of Corbyn’s closest political allies — people like John McDonnell, Diane Abbott, Richard Burgon, and others — have remained in Labour rather than joining the new project. That absence gives Your Party the feeling of continuity Corbyn , not continuity Corbynism , as some critics have put it.
Still, optimism isn’t lost. Many grassroots members remain committed, regional assemblies have been lively, and the upcoming Liverpool founding conference is expected to be a turning point. What’s needed now is cohesion, clarity, and an end to the undermining of figures like Sultana — something trade union veteran Mark Serwotka recently called “shameful and disgraceful.”
Whether Zarah Sultana will ever lead Your Party remains unanswered. But her willingness to speak openly about the barriers ahead suggests she isn’t stepping away from the challenge — just preparing for the fight.
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