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The new Corbyn-Sultana party will need more than democracy to win

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Recently former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former MP Zarah Sultana, both now expelled from the Labour party, formed a new as-yet-unnamed party. Within a few days, they had over 600,000 members, making them the largest political party by membership.They're promising action on the kind of things you'd expect: wealth inequality, public ownership, climate, Gaza. They also promise to be radically democratic, allowing members to choose the party's name, constitution, and policies. But we already have a party that promises action on all these things, and has a similar commitment to internal party democracy: the Green Party. And admirable though these commitments have been, they have not been particularly successful electorally.

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