Get started

See if people are already organising in your area

• Check this list of proto-branches
• You can also search online, and on social media, for something like "Your Party "

If you find something, go along to the next meeting and introduce yourself. If there's nothing being organised, you could propose meeting or a big gathering.

If there's no proto-branch yet, recruit people to start one

Aim towards a first gathering.

Start a group chat

To get there, you might start with a WhatsApp or Facebook group chat. Invite politically aligned people that you know, then allow them to invite more people, and you'll quickly find a list of interested individuals builds up — after all, there are about 800,000 sign-ups for Your Party nationally.

Direct outreach to groups and organisations

You might also directly reach out to existing groups and organisations. You could start with this list of categories of groups and make a map of your local area:

• Community and neighbourhood groups. Your Party should be engaged in all neighbourhoods and communities in your local area. Start as you mean to go on and involve people from them in the discussions about founding the party locally and nationally.
• Trade union and other workers' groups. The labour movement is part of the broader progressive movement and historically represented the organised working class in its fight to build power, develop democracy and build a better society. Practically speaking, the labour movement has lots of facilities which Your Party can benefit from, like meeting venues, Zoom accounts and funds. Trade unionists have lots of experience in organising, campaigning, building institutions and structures and lots else.
• Political organisations. Lots of towns and cities have organised groups of leftists, who are motivated to help build left-wing projects and institutions — almost all of whom are very interested in Your Party succeeding. Practically, members of these groups have skills and know-how in organising and have developed political perspectives on big issues.
• Social movement groups. Reaching out to social movement groups can bring detailed knowledge of particular issues and organising around them. Subgroups you might like to brainstorm and research, to find points of contact for:
  • Base-building organisations (like tenant unions) — defined populations building power through collective action; useful to bring together to politicise and widen the project.
  • Mutual aid groups
  • Migrant community integration networks. (Important to integrate the broad working class from the very beginning.)
  • Palestinian solidarity movement groups
  • Peace movement groups
  • Worker co-operatives and alternative economies
  • City infrastructure campaigns
  • Climate crisis groups
  • Transformative justice & abolitionist groups
  • Feminist, queer and trans solidarity groups
  • Health, care & disability justice groups
  • Migrant justice, anti-racist and anti-fascist groups
  • Cost of living & housing crisis groups
  • Youth & education groups

Organise a meeting

Your first meeting will not be fully, democratically organised—it will be organised by a self-selecting group. The goal, after starting, is to build in democracy.