Announcing: The Socialist Leadership Programme

As socialists, we believe in the collective. We strive to build a world where everyone can live with dignity and freedom. We also recognise that change isn’t won by individuals – it’s won by ordinary people, in all our diversity, uniting and fighting for our rights. 

But socialists also know that leadership matters. It can unify and inspire. It can bring people together – across race and religion, creed and colour – to fight for a better world. Think of the 13 million votes Jeremy Corbyn won in 2017, or Zohran Mamdani’s election as Mayor of New York last year. Jeremy and Zohran are two examples of leaders who don’t conform to the ruling class pattern: who come from and are accountable to the movements that made them.

This model of leadership is hated by the establishment. They want politicians who protect the status quo, who stoke fear and division. So it’s no wonder Parliament is filled with their people: Politicians who all seem to go to the same schools and universities, who move in the same social circles and hold the same ideology.

In Your Party, we have to do things differently. That’s why The Many is announcing the Socialist Leadership Programme: If we are elected to Your Party’s Central Executive Committee, we will establish this programme to identify, educate and train a new generation of working-class socialist leaders.

These are leaders who will represent the full breath of our coalition: Old and young, from all faiths and none, and from every corner of Britain. Leaders built up not from Westminster and the professional political class, but from community campaigns, workplace struggles, and social movements. Leaders who won’t just posture, but will build real power.

We will bring in people from across the party into the programme, consulting on how it can best be delivered, and putting three key elements at its heart: 

(1) Identifying movement leaders, finding the people who can bring people together and inspire change. 

(2) Political education for these future leaders, developing their understanding of the world and the systems of oppression that hold us down. 

And (3) training them up, equipping them with the skills and confidence to unify our class and take on our opponents – on everything from organising, to cutting through in the media.

The Many isn’t content to scrap at the margins of British politics, fighting amongst ourselves while the far-right marches on. We want to build real power. We want a people’s party. Join us and build a party for the many.