Forget Movement-Building – the New Party Should Be the Ukip of the Left

Forget Movement-Building – the New Party Should Be the Ukip of the Left

“We don’t just want electoralism,” Zarah Sultana declared recently while setting out her vision for a new leftwing party. “We want a project that’s tied in to tenants unions, labour organising, the fight to defend the NHS from privatisation and the Palestine solidarity movement.” The same sentiments have been expressed elsewhere. “The new left party must build its own ‘great human network’,” writer Joe Todd argued in July. “Food coops, workers’ …