Jeremy Corbyn “Launches New Hard-Left Party” to Oppose Gaza “Genocide”
Jeremy Corbyn is launching a new hard-Left party to fight Labour across Britain and oppose the “genocide” in Gaza, one of his allies, Zarah Sultana MP, has announced – but is the man himself on board? The Telegraph has the story.
Zarah Sultana, who resigned from Labour on Thursday, announced that she will co-lead the new party with the former Labour leader, who was expelled by Sir Keir Starmer five years ago.
Mr Corbyn was yet to comment publicly on Ms Sultana’s announcement as of Friday morning.
The new party is as yet unnamed, but Ms Sultana said it would comprise other independent MPs, along with campaigners and activists.
It raises the prospect of a split on the Left that mirrors the divide between Reform UK and the Conservatives on the Right.
A recent poll found that a new Left-wing party could win 10% of the vote in a blow to Labour, which would be tied with the Conservatives on 20%.
Announcing the move, Ms Sultana said the next election would be a choice between “socialism or barbarism”.
The Coventry South MP said the new party would be fighting against the sort of benefit cuts Sir Keir tried and failed to get through the Commons last week, and speak out against what she described as the “genocide” in Gaza.
The announcement could pile further pressure on Sir Keir to move to the Left, just days after he was forced to make a humiliating U-turn on welfare cuts. A total of 49 of his own MPs rejected the plans, which would have seen the number of people able to access disability benefits slashed.
Ms Sultana and Mr Corbyn will hope that many Labour supporters who also opposed Sir Keir’s plans will flock to join his party.
In a message on X, Ms Sultana said she had resigned from Labour after 14 years, adding: “Jeremy and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
“A year ago I was suspended by the Labour Party for voting to abolish the two-child benefit cap and lift 400,000 children out of poverty. I’d do it again. I voted against scrapping winter fuel payments for pensioners. I’d do it again.
“Now the Government wants to make disabled people suffer – they just can’t decide how much.”
Ms Sultana attacked Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, saying: “A billionaire-based grifter is leading the polls because Labour has completely failed to improve people’s lives.
“And across the political establishment, from Farage to Starmer, they smear people of conscience trying to stop a genocide in Gaza as terrorists. But the truth is clear – this Government is an active participant in genocide. And the British people oppose it. We are not going to take this any more.”
Ms Sultana went on to criticise Sir Keir’s speech last month on immigration, in which he said Britain risked becoming an “island of strangers”.
She added: “We’re not an island of strangers – we’re an island that’s suffering. We need homes and lives we can actually afford, not rip-off bills we pay every month to a tiny elite bathing in cash. We need our money spent on public services, not forever wars.
“In 2029, the choice will be stark – socialism or barbarism. Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one. Join us. The time is now.”
The message on X contained a link to a page where people could join “Team Zarah”.
Mr Corbyn, the independent MP for Islington North who led Labour from 2015 to 2020, had not yet made a similar announcement.
Later on Thursday night, claims emerged that he had not agreed to join the new party.
BBC Newsnight reported that Ms Sultana had held talks with Mr Corbyn’s Independent Alliance – a group of five independent MPs – earlier this week.
The idea of having co-leaders for the new party was apparently discussed, but Mr Corbyn was said to have not been receptive to the idea.
Gabriel Pogrund, a journalist for the Sunday Times, reported that Mr Corbyn had not yet agreed to join the party with Ms Sultana and he was “furious and bewildered” that the new electoral vehicle was being launched without his say so.
Politico reported “Real Change” had been mooted as a possible name for the new movement but nothing had been decided.
Seems the People’s Front of Gaza has fallen out with the Gazan People’s Front even before launch. A new record for the Left?
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Left-wing politics isn’t working. Let’s go futher left.
“It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for ’em!”
Textbook left-wing strategy.
The workers are starving! Let’s shoot the kulaks!
Exactly my thought! We already have Labour and the Conservatives on the left…
Ultra triple left.
Gaza will soon be a footnote in history just like Zarah Sultana and Corbyn.
Why is it so difficult for people to criticise BOTH SIDES in this appalling war?
Why not criticize none of them? As far as I can tell, the only difference between the two parties is who has presently the upper hand (Israel) but if this was different, everything would be just as it is, just with Israel and Hamas swapped. These people have been at their respective throats for centuries to varying degree so that’s apparently what they want. Why not just let them? It’s not that this tiny strip of mostly too dry land at the far side of the Mediterranean would be particularly important to anyone but the locals.
Rubbish. Muslims have been killing Jews ever since some Jews figured out Muhammed was a charlatan and chose not to follow him. http://www.jewishwebsite.com/featured/list-of-arab-attacks-against-the-jewish-population/94710
The dates and locations can be googled for conformation if you think a Jewish website is nothing but lies. Or maybe every website that says Muslims have killed Jews is part of a global Zionist conspiracy.
Try finding a similar list of attacks on Muslims by Jews. A few woke idiots, including on this site in the past, share a list. A lot of the killings they mention happened in 1947/8 in response to Arab killings of Jews, a lot are military action in response to attacks on Israel. There’s none before 1947, only one side has been killing the other for centuries.
Netanyahu is clearly determined to murder 2.3 million Muslim (and Christians) at this very moment and he is doing an excellent job. So much for religions.
For me, I find it rather hard to believe that Israel will come after us if they win.
Because one side started it, the other side didn’t,
The side that started it did so with the most inhuman, atrocities and deliberately burnt their victims, some alive, as a clear reference to the Holocaust – the crematoria of the death camps – to remind Jews the campaign to ensure their genocide didn’t stop in 1945. They continue to hold hostages.
The Jews are fighting for their existence.
Wars are about attrition – one side kills as many of the other side as it takes either until none of the other side are left, or those who are left surrender unconditionally. See: eg Dresden, Hambourg, Berlin, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
Why is that so difficult for “people” to understand? I suppose for those who think history started when they were born, or think at all, and have never had to fight for anything.
Why is that so difficult for “people” to understand? Because human history doesn’t support your bizarre standpoint. For instance, in the 18th century, there was an era of so-called cabinett wars which were exclusively a matter of relatively small, professional forces which spent a lot of their time with marches and countermarches in attempts to cut the supply lines of the enemy and also, with sieges and only rarely actually battled each other. Until the end of the first world war, indiscriminate killing of civilians was universally considered a war crime. This changed only afterwards when theorists of so-called strategic air warfare, eg, the Italian Douhet or the Englishmen Trenchard, claimed that future wars could be won quickly and with little resources by aerial bombardement of civil infrastructure of enemy countries, either, because it would cripple their war effort because of damage to the economy or because it would demoralize the civilian population to the point of causing them to rise up against their own government. This led to the predominantly anglo-saxon orgies of aerial mass murder which turned out to have exactly no effect on the otherwise necessary war effort. Since then, indiscriminate killing of civilians, especially by aerial… Read more »
The ‘first Arab-Israeli war’ was actually a war waged by the Arab nations to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ on the first day of its establishment following UN Resolution 181. The Arabs had already twice rejected a two-state solution (1938, 1947). Prior to 1918 the geographical area of Palestine had been under the control of the Ottoman (Muslim) empire. When the Ottomans were defeated in WW1 and the British and French mandates were formed the idea of Jews returning to their ancient homeland in the form of a Jewish state was mooted. New Arab countries were created during this time, well ahead of the Israeli state – a very inconvenient fact never mentioned. Arab countries getting wind of all this expelled Jews in their tens of thousands – where was the logical place for them to go? At the same time tens of thousands of Arabs flooded that area of Palestine (never a kingdom or self-governing state since its re-naming by the Romans in the 2nd c. AD), basically to attack the growing Jewish population. And please don’t forget the Arabs are the real interlopers in the region – 1st Jihad and all that? Hamas has embedded a massive military… Read more »
The choice will be between socialism or prosperity (I hope)
“the next election would be a choice between “socialism or barbarism”.
How wrong can you be? . . . Mizz Fruit-cake.
Socialism is a mental illness that results in barbarism.
And its combination with Islam constitutes a death sentence.
Geeez.
If Israel are committing a ‘genocide’ they’re really terrible at it. The last time I checked, the population of Gaza had increased!
Genocide? I think they’ve got a veritable obesity epidemic going on over there. Maybe that’s a giveaway as to who’s related to a terrorist. Look at the size of their girth, because they get first dibs on all the food 😮
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1941036622218514493
Not the Israeli Gazawood again?
Where did you get such information? A genocide is nothing to joke about.
‘The new party Is as yet unnamed’.
Maybe I can help them out here. The name of the party rhymes with hunts.
The Islamic people’s front
Or, as Mogs posted a few hours ago “Jezbollah” – still laughing here.
😆
“Wishing every success to Jeremy Corbyn’s new party, the Coalition to Undermine National Trust & Security!” Dr Philip Kiszely.
Loony MacLoonyface?
So Corbyn sees that Labour will be eclipsed by an Islamist Socialist party as the new comers expand in numbers and sees a chance of jumping on their bandwagon now. He’ll be pushed out as soon as it suits them.
Cupid Stunts?
He’ll get the chop.
There is a video recently posted on the BBC News app of French police slashing a dinghy in shallow waters and thus making it unusable for the people in it attempting to cross the Channel. The passengers climb out of the sinking craft and wade to land. However, the film has emphatic warnings by the BBC that the scene is distressing. No one is harmed. Is this a biased value judgement on the part of our national broadcaster?
Hardly distressing, mood-lifting I’d say 👍
… the film has emphatic warnings by the BBC that the scene is distressing …
Distressing only to supporters and promoters of the Great Replacement.
Hamas deal in propaganda, it’s essential to them. I see the videos circulating on Twitter showing Hamas shooting captured Gazans in the legs, who were only trying to access the food being distributed, have been taken down. All the suckers fall for the narrative and the MSM just lap up those lies, like the rabid Israel-haters they are;
”The Washington Post retracted a story Tuesday that repeated fake news, disseminated by Hamas, claiming that Israeli troops had opened fire on Palestinians seeking food from an American-run aid site in Gaza.
As Breitbart News noted, many mainstream media outlets simply ran claims by Hamas, which is seeking to discredit the ongoing aid effort by the Trump administration-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The GHF effort circumvents the United Nations (UN) and hence Hamas, which relies on stealing UN aid shipments to resupply its terrorists and to profit by forcing desperate Palestinians to pay for “free” aid.
After GHF and the Israeli military both denied that any such shooting took place, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee demanded that mainstream media outlets retract their false reporting about the alleged incident.
The Post responded by taking down a post on X and correcting an article that included the false claims.”
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/06/04/washington-post-retracts-fake-news-story-about-deaths-at-gaza-aid-site/
GHF statement in response to recent reporting from the Associated Press: “GHF launched an immediate investigation when the Associated Press first brought these allegations to our attention. Based on time-stamped video footage and sworn witness statements, we have concluded that the claims in the AP’s story are categorically false. At no point were civilians under fire at a GHF distribution site. The gunfire heard in the video was confirmed to have originated from the IDF, who was outside the immediate vicinity of the GHF distribution site. It was not directed at individuals, and no one was shot or injured. What is most troubling is that the AP refused to share the full video with us prior to publication, despite the seriousness of the allegations. If they believed their own reporting, they should have provided us with the footage so we could take immediate and appropriate action. The primary source for the story is a disgruntled former contractor who was terminated for misconduct weeks before this article was published. That fact, combined with the AP’s refusal to engage in good faith prior to publication, undermines the credibility of their reporting. Their coverage of our aid operations has increasingly echoed narratives advanced… Read more »
“Hamas deal in propaganda”? Just where are there any statements from Hamas at all in the Western press? You claim to see videos of Hamas shooting Gazans: from which Israeli source? You report of claims made by Breitbart News. Who are they? Breitbart News is one of America’s leading news organizations. Breitbart routinely features exclusive interviews and original content with and from American and world leaders. It was conceived in 2007, when two Jewish-American best friends – Andrew Breitbart and Larry Solov – took a trip to Israel together. There, they decided to partner and create Breitbart News with the idea that truthful reporting and the free and open exchange of ideas is essential to maintain a robust democracy. There you go, yet another Israeli propaganda machine. What are your comments to this video from Channel 4, showing the result of an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza, as well as Israelis celebrating and chanting “Death to the Arabs”? And what are your comment to this video from Sky News showing the work of UK doctors in Gaza? Is there anything to admire in the scenes of destruction and the frustration of the doctors treating so many wounded, including… Read more »
its the Islamist Party you watch, it will attract a predominantly Muslim vote.
She is quite right they will be the party of Barbarity
Looney-Left returns.
As long as incompetent Jeremy is in charge, we have nothing to fear.
If you are going to schism from your Party is would be sensible to ensure your new Party was ready first.
Queue here to sign up, no pushing or shoving.
I’ve heard that they will be called the
New
Anti-
Zionist
Independent Party (credit to the Spectator)
Sultana is part of the Mirpuri rapist tribe.
She’s also got a hugely inflated sense of her own importance to “know” that Corbyn thinks she’s so wonderful that he’ll join her party when he’s said nothing to indicate he will, and doesn’t seem to of been talking to dissident Liebour MPs about forming a new party.
Poor Corbyn. I sympathise with him, but really, everyone knows he does not stand a chance. Who is funding him?