Joel Wall

Trans Liberation Group's logo (pink white and blue phoenix on a pink star) with the text: 'Voting for the CEC Election is now open! We support the Grassroots Left Slate and calls on members to vote:'

Public Office Holders. Candidates: Grace Lewis; Zarah Sultana. Endorsed: Jeremy Corbyn.

West Midlands: Graham Jones; Megan Clarke East Midlands: Anjona Roy; Anwarul Khan

North West of England: Chloe Braddock; Haifa Alkhanshali. North East of England: Ian Spencer; Myra Shoko.

Voting is now open! We need a CEC that puts the grassroots first and is truly committed to member democracy. That's why we are calling for members to vote for the Grassroots Left Slate.

A red, white and green striped graphic reading: Lizzie4CEC. I'm asking members to vote #1 Lizzie Bailey, #2 Sue Hagerty, #3 Martin O'Neill. For an independent Welsh CEC representative! For any questions, please email: lissie4cec@gmail.com

Voting for the CEC opens today! I'd like to thank everyone who endorsed me to get onto the ballot and I'm going to ask for your support once again. For those who didn't endorse me but did endorse other independents, I'd ask that you consider which independent is best placed to win & rank your votes.

Red, white and green stripes with the text: ON THE BALLOT! 75 Endorsements reached! Thank you!

Thank you everyone who has endorsed me to get on the final ballot! It's great to have as many independent voices on the ballot as possible so if you haven't endorsed yet, please do endorse one of the candidates who haven't yet reached 75. Thank you!

Open Letter to Your Party interim leadership RE: Welsh CEC Elections We are writing to the Your Party interim leadership as Welsh CEC candidates and Welsh members, to express our concerns with the lack of transparency and resources afforded to the campaign for the sole...

Open Letter to Your Party interim leadership RE: Welsh CEC Elections

Please sign via the following link: forms.gle/pDv9jjAwpyqd...

A red, green and white striped image with the text LIZZIE4CEC and a quote from the linked article: "I think Palestine is sort of a cornerstone of the current political climate, not just because of the ongoing genocide, but because it represents a turning point for British imperialism," Bailey tells The New Arab. "It underlines what your actual values are. So, if people are getting backlash for speaking out against the genocide, and they choose not to speak out, clearly they’re prioritising their personal position over the Palestinian people." The activist references the Labour Party, which is "clearly taking a position which they obviously know is wrong" but politically serves their interests in British arms and diplomatic ties. How can you trust someone who says they stand up for human rights, but they don’t stand up for the Palestinians?"

I was interviewed by The New Arab back at the Your Party Conference last year. This is what I had to say about Palestine:

Read the full article here: www.newarab.com/news/jeremy-...

LIZZIE BAILEY SELECTED BY TLG MEMBERS FOR YOUR PARTY’S COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP CEC WELSH SEAT Lizzie Bailey (she/they) has been chosen by TLG members to run for the Welsh seat of Your Party’s Collective Leadership. As part of her union and TLG, Lizzie assisted in the passing of two motions at the Founding Conference, requiring Your Party to commit to trans liberation, and liberation for one is liberation for all. Lizzie is committed to representing Welsh voices in Your Party, and supporting mass member-led democracy and a party republic. For media enquiries, please email: lizzie4cec@gmail.com

“My name is Lizzie and I am committed to fighting for socialist change, both within Your Party and beyond it. I've been involved in a variety of political groups and have taken on roles such as LGBT+ officer, Women's officer and co-chair of UNISON's national young members group. I've also been involved in local community organising including Palestinian liberation groups, anti-fascist groups, and educational workshops. I've been learning about politics and social injustice since I was a child, as I wanted to understand why hard working people still faced significant financial issues. I went on to study politics at university for my undergraduate degree and completed a masters in sociology in 2020. I believe our society has more than enough wealth for us all to live long, healthy and fulfilling lives, but in our current political system all this wealth has been concentrated to a small number of individuals and this needs to change. Your Party can help drive this change, but we need to build a party that is accountable and speaks for ordinary people. I am committed to building Your Party from the ground up and have taken an active role to help build our local protobranch in Cardiff. As the CEC representative for Welsh members, I will ensure I represent the grassroots membership and continue working to help build a party that delivers change for the ordinary people that make up our communities and Your Party.”

LIZZIE BAILEY SELECTED BY TLG MEMBERS FOR YOUR PARTY’S COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP CEC WELSH SEAT

Lizzie Bailey (she/they) has been chosen by TLG members to run for the Welsh seat of Your Party’s Collective Leadership.
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Lizzie Bailey has been chosen by grassroots members to run for the Welsh seat of Your Party’s Collective Leadership on the CEC. As part of the TLG, Lizzie assisted in the passing of two motions at the Founding Conference, requiring Your Party to commit to trans liberation. Lizzie is committed to representing Welsh voices in Your Party, and supporting mass member led democracy, and strongly believes that liberation for one is liberation for all. Lizzie said: “My name is Lizzie and I am committed to fighting for socialist change, both within Your Party and beyond it. I've been involved in a variety of political groups and have taken on roles such as LGBT+ officer, Women's officer and co-chair of UNISON's national young members group. I've also been involved in local community organising including Palestinian liberation groups, anti-fascist groups, and educational workshops. I've been learning about politics and social injustice since I was a child, as I wanted to understand why hard working people still faced significant financial issues. I went on to study politics at university for my undergraduate degree and completed a masters in sociology in 2020. I believe our society has more than enough wealth for us all to live long, healthy and fulfilling lives, but in our current political system all this wealth has been concentrated to a small number of individuals and this needs to change. Your Party can help drive this change, but we need to build a party that is accountable and speaks for ordinary people. I am committed to building Your Party from the ground up and have taken an active role to help build our local protobranch in Cardiff. As the CEC representative for Welsh members, I will ensure I represent the grassroots membership and continue working to help build a party that delivers change for the ordinary people that make up our communities and Your Party.” TLG calls on Welsh members to endorse Lizzie once endorsements open on 21st January.

Hi, I’m Lizzie. I’m the co-chair of the Cardiff proto-branch of Your Party and I am standing to be the representative for Welsh voices on the CEC.

TLG onboarding schedule: Sunday 11th January at 3pm, Wednesday 14th January at 6pm, Sunday 18th January at 3pm and Thursday 22nd January at 6pm. Sign up at transliberationgroup.org.uk/join

Join TLG now for our next batch of onboarding sessions. Come along to meet people and learn how to get involved.

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TLG recommends that the 📃 Organisational Strategy founding document 📃 for Your Party is ✅️ APPROVED ✅️ by members.

The document now contains our amendments 🏳️‍⚧️✊️ which were passed with ‼️ super majorities ‼️ earlier today.

Our motion to add anti oppression as a principle alongside socialist and anti imperialist to Your Party’s first year organising strategy can now be voted on!

You have until 8am tomorrow to vote for it!

Your Party Members Area - Your Party It’s time to build a new kind of political party. One that belongs to you.

Our motion to explicitly include trans liberation - not just trans rights - was just debated in Conference to overwhelming support from the floor.

Voting is already open and closes at 4 so please vote in favour of this amendment:
in.yourparty.uk/en/vote/dash...

TLG logo (pink white and blue phoenix on a pink star). Text: Many of the traditional political parties operate by having reserved sections. This is when a group claiming to represent a section of people (LGBTQ+, Disability etc) becomes officially recognised by the party as the organ of that identity group. Often, these groups have special access to the party leadership, reserved seats on the executive or nominating powers.

Text: This causes many issues. It creates another layer of bureaucracy for minority peoples to navigate to get their voice heard. In many parties, these sections are factionally aligned to the leadership to maintain their access and privileges, which makes them ineffective at speaking up or providing criticism. In reserved seats, token anointed individuals are treated as a way of signing off on decisions affecting groups, without having to consult them.

Text: There is a better way of doing politics, a way that centres democracy and member led liberation. The aim is not to have a single trans person signing off on decisions; it is to build strong, democratic structures that encourage people to take the lead in their own political development and their liberation. We can build strong, diverse organisers, we can debate strategy, refine our policy and be an exemplar of democracy.

Text: We do not need to attach ourselves to specific leaders - allies or not. We instead show everyone that the power lies with the members and anyone can support us. Through our empowerment and building each other up within our interrelated struggles, we then become impossible to sideline. Our influence becomes permanent and reliant on no one but ourselves.

Against Sections: For Democratic Liberation

TLG believes in empowering groups to organise democratically, develop their own consciousness and elevate their membership. No individual can speak for us!

Demand number 3: Healthcare that works - Trans Liberation Group

End the discriminatory puberty blocker ban - a young trans person should not have to undergo the misery of the wrong puberty. Make HRT a right for all adult people with no legal restrictions, available over the counter on an informed consent basis. Abolish the GIC system and desegregate trans healthcare - monitoring and referral for specialist treatment should be done by primary care providers. - Trans Liberation Group

Expand the range of gender affirming surgeries accessible on the NHS. Legally enshrine the right to transition - where a person has Gillick competence there should be no interference with their transition. This includes trans children, who should not require parental consent to transition. Legally guarantee bodily autonomy for all. A human being should have the ultimate say over what goes on in their own body. This includes a complete decriminalisation of abortion based on the principle “as early as possible, as late as necessary”. - Trans Liberation Group

End all “corrective” surgery on intersex children. Nobody should be subject to medically unnecessary surgery without the capacity to consent. Fund fertility treatment for all who need it, it should be a legal right and not restricted by a lack of money. Expand mental health provision, provide support on demand and for as long as needed, given how disproportionately trans people are affected by poor mental health due to the discrimination we face. - Trans Liberation Group

Demand 3 - Healthcare that works

Demand number 2: Reform the broken system. - Trans Liberation Group

Completely overhaul the Relationship and Sex Education guidance for schools. Children should be aware of all different types of people and their own options. Sex education should be queer and trans inclusive. Gender-critical perspectives should not be taught and trans people should not be framed as a “debate”. Institute a complete ban on all types of conversion therapy, including trans conversion therapy. Support for people questioning their gender should be affirmative of their desires while giving space for people to explore their feelings. - Trans Liberation Group

Enshrine in UK Law the right to privacy over your assigned gender at birth and trans status, and oppose all attempts to leave the ECHR, which guarantees the right to respect for your private and family life, including confidentiality around your assigned gender at birth under Article 8. Introduce a new law abolishing all kinds of “trans panic” legal defences. Legally enshrine the right to not have to disclose your assigned gender at birth or trans status to potential sexual partners and reverse all convictions made of trans people on the basis of “deception” for not disclosing their trans status. - Trans Liberation Group

Decriminalise all sex work (which trans people are disproportionately involved in), reversing all criminal and administrative penalties on sex workers. Regulate sex workers’ workplaces through employment law, allowing them to self-organise and form trade unions. Reverse the cuts to PIP and overhaul the system through a process which puts disabled people at the heart of decision making. - Trans Liberation Group

Demand 2 - Reform the broken system.

Demand number 1: Legalise Trans Existence

Amend the Equality Act 2010 to undo the damage caused by the Supreme Court ruling of 16th April 2025 by making it clear “sex” refers to a person's current lived sex and adding gender identity as a protected characteristic. Ensure that “gender-critical” beliefs cannot be treated as protected beliefs. Enshrine the right to self-identification of gender, including non-binary gender, for all purposes.

Abolish gender markers from official documentation such as passports. Reject plans for the introduction of ID cards as an authoritarian imposition that will be disproportionately used to police and harass trans people, migrants, and people of colour. Scrap the Equality and Human Rights Commission - it is broken and not fit for purpose and should be replaced with an equalities body that actually protects human rights.

Demand 1 - Legalise trans existence existence

Demand Number zero: A Party For Everyone.

Require all elected party representatives to be bound by the programme democratically agreed by the membership, which will have trans liberation at its core. Ensure that elected representatives are held accountable to the membership and censure and remove any representatives who break from this programme (including promoting transphobic bigotry or discrimination).

Create a transparent disciplinary process for all members to prevent bigotry and discrimination, overseen by a democratically-elected committee including representation for trans people. This should be guided by the principles of transformative justice, with efforts to resolve issues through mediation and education where possible.

Over the next few days we will be posting our demands into 4 overarching demands/group
Today Demand 0 - A party for everyone

Big things happening!

Trans people have always existed, and will always exist. A court ruling cannot change this fact. However, it will impact the safety and legal protections for trans women - a marginalised community facing disproportionate levels of discrimination, harassment and violence. F-Bomb Theatre stands with our trans sisters against this dangerous ruling, and aims to always be a safe, inclusive space for trans people.

Trans people have always existed, and will always exist.

A court ruling cannot change this fact.

However, it will impact the safety and legal protections for trans women - a marginalised community facing disproportionate levels of discrimination, harassment and violence.

omg that's so cute

Thomas is deep in prayer thanking Mother Gaga for gifting us #Mayhem and he strongly suggests you do the same

By the way, ironically one way you can pave the way for building community is DEPEND ON YOUR FRIENDS. Don't just pay your own way everywhere. Ask people to share stuff. And make them feel okay about asking you for favours in return (and make sure that you are there for them if you can be).

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it's actually embarrassing how much better i feel when the sun is out

Zoopla has revealed how much you need to earn to buy a house in every London borough.

Their figures show that less than 6% of freelancers can now afford to buy an average property, even in the cheapest borough.

More here... buff.ly/41tY74R

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

🎉 We’re thrilled to have been nominated for eight Olivier Awards!

Congratulations to everyone involved in these fantastic productions.

The Olivier Awards 2025 with Mastercard will take place on Sunday 6 April at the Royal Albert Hall

#OlivierAwards2025

Israel has chosen to mark the first days of Ramadan by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Still, our government refuses to implement sanctions and defend international law.

There is no other way of putting it: this is a resumption of genocide — and our government is complicit.

Scapegoating refugees has always been a deliberate ploy by governments to distract from their own domestic failures.

Pandering to Reform UK will backfire — and vulnerable people will pay the price.

End dangerous crossings by opening safe routes for fellow human beings instead.

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just watched the V1 refuse to let a woman on at a junction and then run the red light??

Flo leans across a colourful desk with a hairbrush in her hand like a microphone. Sat behind the desk is Rachel who looks directly at Flo, plus Wendy sits behind Rachel with her arms outstretched exclaimining excitement.

The news is out - Perfect Show For Rachel is going international!

We will be heading to Aarhus, Denmark to take part in the ILT Festival in May 2025.

They have lots more exciting shows to announce, but for now check out more about the festival and Perfect Show for Rachel below.

We can't wait.