Grassroots Left endorses:
Public Officeholder:
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Jeremy Corbyn is a British politician, former Leader of the Labour Party (2015-2020), and long-serving MP for
Islington North since 1983, known for his democratic socialist views, anti-war activism, focusing on causes like nuclear disarmament, workers' rights, and social justice. He co-founded the party along with Zarah Sultana MP.
Public Officeholder:
Zarah Sultana MP
Zarah Sultana is a Your Party MP with a background in community organising and movement building. Before entering Parliament in 2019, she worked at Primark and H&M, becoming a trade unionist and organising with colleagues on pay, conditions and workplace rights. Her politics are shaped by the impacts of austerity, the tripling of tuition fees, state violence and attacks on civil liberties, especially affecting marginalised communities. In Parliament, she campaigns for public ownership, universal free school meals, ending the two-child benefit cap, tenants’ rights and Palestinian liberation, including ending UK arms sales to Israel. She co-founded Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn and champions maximum member democracy.
East OF ENGLAND:
Riccardo La Torre
Riccardo La Torre is a lifelong trade unionist, anti-fascist and anti-war activist. He has represented firefighters and control staff at workplace, regional and national level, including five years as an FBU National Officer, leading successful industrial action against cuts and for improved pay and conditions. Riccardo believes working-class political representation must be rooted in strong, combative trade unions. On the CEC, he is committed to building a democratic, member-led socialist party that works hand in hand with organised labour.
East of England:
Solma Ahmed
East Midlands:
Anwarul Khan
East Midlands:
Anjona Roy
Anjona Roy is a UNISON activist in the Community sector and represents members on the East Midlands Service Group and represents East Midlands UNISON members on the national UNISON Service Group Executive. Most recently she has been actively supporting Andrea Egan's successful campaign to become UNISON General Secretary with other Time for Real Change activists. She is active in the local black community and Chair an umbrella group called Northamptonshire Black Communities Together. She in the past served as a Labour Councillor on Northampton Borough Council and Northamptonshire County Council.
London:
Anahita Zardoshti
Anahita Zardoshti is a grassroots socialist organiser, a member of the Democratic Socialists of Your Party and a committed anti-fascist and anti-imperialist activist. She is a founder and Chair of the Your Party Islington proto-branch and has helped build a rapidly growing local organisation, that mobilises for the hunger strikers for Palestine, runs mass listening campaigns, supports local strikes, and develops political education and cultural programmes. Shaped by her experience growing up in Iran, Anahita is committed to fighting against all forms of oppression. She argues for a democratic, member-led party that empowers branches, funds grassroots activity, and keeps its leadership rooted in the working class.
London:
Mel Mullings
Mel Mullings is a London Underground train driver and lifelong RMT activist, currently serving as Bakerloo Branch Secretary and Chair of the union’s Women’s Advisory Committee. Her organising is rooted in intersectional, rank-and-file solidarity, shaped by her experience as a Black woman with an invisible disability. Mel is a leading reparations campaigner and chairs the RMT Reparations Conference, linking historical justice to modern labour struggles. She also teaches Black and Afrikan history in Croydon and co-leads grassroots organisations including GACuk and BLM Croydon, always focused on building power from within.
North East:
Ian Spencer
North East:
Myra Shoko
North West:
Haifa Ali
North West:
Chloe Braddock
Chloe Braddock is a socialist organiser with a background in tenant unionism, anti-imperialist organising and anti-fascist struggle. She has been a leading figure in the Democratic Socialists of Your Party and has worked across the wider socialist movement, gaining a clear view of where today’s struggles are being fought. Chloe argues for a politically bold, radically democratic party rooted in rank-and-file power. She believes real change is built through organising in communities and on the streets, not by chasing electoral office alone.
South East:
Max Shanly
Max Shanly is a socialist organiser and writer with eighteen years’ experience in the workers’ movement. A computer technician by trade, he became politically active after confronting the limits of workplace trade unionism. He served on the Young Labour National Committee from 2013–18, was Zarah Sultana’s running mate in the 2016 Young Labour elections, and worked as Deputy Director of Operations on Jeremy Corbyn’s second leadership campaign. Now a leading figure in the Democratic Socialists of Your Party, Max focuses on socialist theory, organisation, and deepening democracy within the movement.
South East:
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, trade unionist (NEU and NUJ), anti-racist and anti-imperialist activist for more than 20 years. A prominent Jewish campaigner for the rights of Palestinians, at the forefront of opposing the rightwards shift of the Labour Party leadership from within, and after being expelled in 2022, advocating for a new movement of the left. I have been closely involved with the formative stages of Your Party and am now standing for the CEC in order to promote openness, transparency and accountability in a unified collective leadership, empowering members and branches across the regions and nations. For a grassroots-led socialist party!
South West:
Candi Williams
Candi Williams is a care-experienced activist, author, socialist and union member who helped build Your Party Bristol from the ground up. With over a decade of organising experience, she has supported refugees, worked with vulnerable young people, and fought fascism locally. Since joining, she has helped grow the branch from 40 to 400 members and organised major rallies and assemblies. Candi is committed to anti-fascism, anti-imperialism and liberation politics, grounding solidarity in action; and standing with people of colour, women, trans and queer people, disabled people, refugees, and all those facing oppression.
South West:
Mark Gage
West Midlands:
Graham Jones
Graham Jones is a socialist organiser from Shropshire with experience in housing, mental health, community education and Palestine solidarity work. He is the author of Shock Doctrine of the Left and Red Enlightenment, and is currently boycotting his publisher as part of the Boycott Watkins campaign for Palestine. Graham’s priorities are political education, grassroots leadership development, and building democratic, effective party structures. A disabled organiser, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and carer, he brings a strong commitment to inclusion, solidarity and principled socialist organisation.
West Midlands:
Megan Clarke
Megan Clarke is a trade union organiser, Palestine campaigner and Acorn member. She helped found the Your Party proto-branch in Warwick and Leamington and has stood in a local by-election as an affiliated independent candidate. Megan believes the party must be built from the ground up, with strong, active branches at its core. On the CEC, she is committed to ensuring branches have the funding, data and resources they need to organise effectively and maintain a real presence in their communities.
Yorkshire & Humber:
Chris Saltmarsh
Chris Saltmarsh is an eco-socialist activist based in Sheffield with deep roots in the climate movement and trade unionism. He has led campaigns for fossil fuel divestment, taken direct action against fracking, and co-founded Labour for a Green New Deal in 2019. A former Unite rep and current UCU activist, Chris is a member of Eco-Socialist Horizon. On the CEC, he aims to help build a mass, democratic, member-led party capable of leading effective action against the climate crisis.
Yorkshire & Humber:
Sophie Wilson
SCOTLAND AND WALES:
We believe in autonomy for our movement in Scotland and Wales. That means Welsh members decide the Welsh representative and Scottish members decide the Scottish representative on the CEC, through their own democratic processes.
Public Officeholder:
CLLR Grace Lewis
Grace Lewis is a 22-year-old Coventry City Councillor and the first councillor to publicly defect from Labour to Your Party. A socialist and anti-imperialist organiser since her teens, she beat an incumbent conservative councillor by over 500 votes through grassroots campaigning and stood alongside workers, students and Palestine solidarity movements. Grace believes real change is built through member-led organisation, not Westminster manoeuvring. On the CEC, she argues for democratic accountability, strong youth and student organising, empowered local branches, and a party rooted firmly in working-class interests and anti-fascist struggle.
PUBLIC OFFICEHOLDER:
CLLR MICHAEL LAVALETTE
Michael Lavalette, is a socialist councillor on Lancashire County Council. He was elected in May 2025 as one of several ‘Preston Independents.’ They sit as part of the Progressive Lancashire grouping which unites Independents and Greens as the Official Opposition to Reform.
In the 2024 General Election he stood as a ‘pro-Palestine’ Independent and came second with 22% of the vote. He was previously a Preston City Council councillor (2003-2015) for Socialist Alliance, Respect and finally an Independent Socialist.
Since the launch of YP he has spoken at meetings across the country - sharing platforms with Jeremy, Zarah and many other national and local speakers.