Is Corbynism 2.0 Coming for Labour?

Is Corbynism 2.0 coming for Labour?

Is Corbynism back? Six years after Jeremy Corbyn’s cataclysmic defeat in the 2019 election, there are signs that the British Left is finally emerging from a depressive morass. The chaotic announcement of a new party co-led with Zarah Sultana, one of the few surviving Corbynist MPs, arrived swiftly on the heels of a major Left-led Parliamentary rebellion against the Government’s welfare reforms. The potential significance of a Left revival is ref…

Has Zarah Sultana already been sidelined from her new party?

Judging from a recent rally of trade unionists, Jeremy Corbyn remains in control of this movement.

The rocky road to power: notes on a new left

What does socialist practice mean in the event of a new leftwing party? Jonas Marvin suggests some key steps. Zarah Sultana’s resignation from the Labour Party has brought the burning question of a new leftwing political formation right to the very centre stage of everyone’s minds. Last year’s election of five independents and four Greens made it clear that there is a substantive electoral space to the left of a disintegrating and dwindling Labo…