Jeremy Corbyn suggests a new party will be in place before 2026 elections
Speaking at a recent event, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed “the call for a new political party”, saying:
This whole cause is coming together so that by next year’s local elections – long before that I hope – we’re going to have something in place that is very clear and everyone will want to be part of and support.
Corbyn has previously spoken about how he’s been supporting efforts to build the resistance via community empowerment.
His most recent comments came at an event in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. The hosts – the People’s Alliance for Change and Equality (PACE) – plan to connect campaigners, trade unionists, and politicians across the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees that oppose war, cuts, and racism.
PACE officially launched on 10 May. And with local voters able to elect councillors in all the borough’s seats in 2026, PACE seeks to put forward candidates to challenge establishment parties.
Jeremy Corbyn: I hear the call for a new party
Jeremy Corbyn was among other high-profile speakers from the left, including Jamie Driscoll, Claudia Webbe, and Salma Yaqoob.
At the PACE event, Corbyn said:
I hear the call for a new political party. I fully understand that, and that political party needs to be well-informed and effective. One that gives out a central message of peace, of justice, of equality, of diversity within our society…
Mike Forster is an anti-cuts campaigner at the heart of PACE. And in his own speech, he insisted:
Jeremy is clearly pointing in the right direction. With Labour widely discredited as a party of austerity, and with the danger of Nigel Farage and Reform’s rise, it is clearer than ever that a left-wing political alternative is needed. One which can say that it’s not migrants or trans people selling off our NHS and cutting disability benefits – it’s the super-rich. We need to launch this alternative now!
It’s coming, people. Watch this space, and get involved!
From Newcastle to Southport, and Enfield to Kirklees, people are uniting to build movements in their communities that will feed into a national party that can take on the Labour, Reform, and Tory wings of the establishment. Assemblies are popping up across the country to put local people at the heart of the resistance. And trade unionists are also ready to step in and play a role.
Prime minister Keir Starmer seems utterly intent on destroying the Labour Party with his shameless corporate cronyism. And across the left, there appears to be the will to unite around key policies (wages, climate, housing, wealth tax, public services, and peace) in order to enter the space Labour has abandoned. There’s also an awareness of the need to centre class in a conflict which billionaires are currently winning.
The question isn’t about whether a new mass party on the left is coming or whether Jeremy Corbyn will be involved. The question is ‘when, and how can we get involved?’
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About time but if nobody votes for these greedy beggars then how can they get in hmmmmmm
I’m a bit concerned that the Left parties will split the vote, watering themselves down. Is there any way there could be an overarching group that would include parties like Greens, Lib Dem’s and others less well known so they would be counted collectively?
What about Scotland? We have Scottish Parliament elections next year and a growing number if us are sick of the betrayal by EVERY party standing, including the SNP and Greens. We too are bought and sold for corporate gold,
A new party could win Scotland easily if it acknowledged our right of self-determination, if we chose to exercise it.
It does not mean we would vote tor independence if the Unionists made a good case for ‘Better Together’. One thing driving the Yes movement at the moment is the horror show at Westminster. Sadly the SNP have blown their credibility and we are vulnerable to a protest vote for Reform here too.
So get that party started, stand for Holyrood, and sweep the board. All thosr traditional Labour voters here would be out in droves to vote for it. Just revert to Keir Hardie’s original platform. Scotland is there for the taking and will transform prospects for Westminster.
Great,
I wonder if Gary Stevenson and Richard J Murphy would get involved?
Gary Stevenson!!!! Brilliant idea! 👏
People keep suggesting that we ‘so vote Reform’ but Reform don’t appear to have a coherent plan. Even Trump’s team have a far better, and somewhat more humane, vision than than that, including plans to clean up ‘corporate food.’ and ‘corporate medicine,’ currently out of control, and to lower public utility and food costs.
btw Bernie Sanders, who got buried by the current iteration of the Dems in the USA, has a lot to say here about what SHOULD be going on, much in line with Jeremy Corbyn’s views, I imagine. It explains (after some few minutes of sports chat at the beginning) a lot that he considers that thinks the Dems sold out to very wealthy donors and lost interest in the working class, who are struggling. Sound familiar?! It covers a number of current issues including Israel. I did like the inoformality and openness of the discussions. Worth a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWVbQQwWJo
How can we get involved? Does anyone know? Will it happen through “Collective” organisation? Cheers!
A new political party the takes possession of the social agenda, one that represents the left, is a vital necessity. Starmer, taking advantage of the fiscal support the Zionista provided, has not just neutered the Labour Party. He has converted it into the Tory Lite Party. Britain does not need the ‘big cheese, Nigel Fromage kicking up a stink from a bunch of rabble rousers.