MEE sat down with the former Labour leader to talk about his vision for the new left-wing party

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35167663

By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025 17:47 BST

Now, he is organising a Gaza Tribunal of his own. “We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry,” Corbyn says.

“It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the West Bank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts.”

[Note to our Fedi friends in the UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via Peertube in some fashion.]

The new party was announced on 3 July, when MP Zarah Sultana left the Labour Party and said she would co-lead a different outfit with Corbyn.

That party doesn’t exist yet. It doesn’t even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.

Polling this week found that a third of 2024 Labour voters would consider voting for a Corbyn-Sultana-led party, as well as over a quarter of Labour members.

  • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 day ago

    He is anti war. He has been anti war for decades and decades. He is authentic and consistent on this issue. I don’t agree how he is applying that principle on Russia Ukraine, but I respect his opinion.

    And that’s democracy, which is what his new party is making promises of - it will be a bottom up, grass-root and democratic party. So I am not too concerned with Corbyn’s personal opinion.

    (And like, the detractors are so fixated on this issue. They literally have nothing else to say, no other critics to offer. You mention Corbyn and immediately they are like “oH wHat aBoUt Russia-Ukraine” (a few years ago it was “oH bUt He iS an aNtiSemIte???”), as if that is the single most significant problem Britain is facing right now?? not housing, not NHS, not education, not the gutting of the wealth of the working class??? Talking about single issue voters. (sorry about the rant))

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      5 hours ago

      He is not anti-war, he is pro-russian genocidal imperialism.

      He is a tankie, and when has the working class done well under regimes that tankies support?