03/07/2025
So it's official. Zarah Sultana MP and Jeremy Corbyn have announced they are launching a new party!
Socialist Alternative will be doing all we can to build support for this appeal, on the streets and throughout the labour movement.
Here is Part One of six things we need from a new left party!
1) WE NEED A PARTY THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE FIGHTBACK
Many may imagine the first task of a new left party will be preparing for the next round of elections. This certainly is important. But in our opinion, its most fundamental task will be to become a political organising space that can unite and help politically lead different struggles.
If a new left party wants to sink real roots into working-class communities, it will need to do more than turn up on people’s doorsteps at election time. To win the trust of working-class people, it needs to be part of the real-life struggles which are taking place to defend and extend their rights and interests. As always, these struggles will have their centre of gravity not in Westminster, but in workplaces and neighbourhoods.
A new party should be a hub for campaigners and trade unionists. It should be a space to coordinate and escalate the fightback in every local area and nationally. It should offer striking workers, trade unionists, climate campaigners, anti-racist fighters, community organisers, and anti-war activists the chance to come together, organise together and to discuss what is needed to win together.
This is crucial because all our struggles are connected. They are all part of fighting back against a decaying capitalist system which has exploitation, oppression and imperialist war baked into its foundations. That’s why uniting different struggles and developing a clear political alternative to capitalism and austerity are intrinsically linked.
In Kirklees, the People’s Alliance for Change and Equality recently held a ‘Conference of Resistance’ launch meeting, which Socialist Alternative members played an important part in organising. It brought together workplace fighters, anti-cuts campaigners from the fight to save local dementia homes, Palestine solidarity activists, climate change activists and political figures like Jeremy Corbyn, alongside a local independent MP and councillors.
We believe this is a localised example of the kind of approach a new party could take in every town and city, and at national level.
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