Zarah Sultana quoted Gramsci twice last weekend: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
The first time she cited the Italian theorist was in a clammy conference room on the second floor of a Holiday Inn in Liverpool city centre, where she’d gathered her supporters on the eve of Your Party’s founding conference. The mood was tense and sparky, partly because, hours earlier, one of her co-speakers was among those expelled from the party and barred from the conference.
The second time was on the conference mainstage on Sunday afternoon: her supporters reinstated, her major party proposals accepted, and her will asserted over Britain’s biggest new socialist party in generations.
