New Left of Labour Political Party?
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It is worth recording that the Communist Party of Britain, the legitimate political heir of the old CPGB, is changing its policy of how it advises workers to vote.
In the June issue of their paper Unity, their General Secretary Robert Griffiths is reported as saying that
“it was clear that the traditional advice to vote Labour where no Communist is standing could no longer apply”
and that there were “a growing number of socialist, progressive and Communist candidates” who would deserve support in future elections.
This represents a major change of policy on their part.
Incidentally, the same issue confirms that the CPB now supports the present Chinese government saying that “China are now building a modern socialist nation”.
If you believe that you’ll believe anything.
It looks like the New Left of Labour Political Party is on:
https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1940850950681554996
In case the twitter link doesn’t work, Zarah Sultana MP has announced in the past hour her resignation from the Labour Party to “. . . co-lead the founding of a new party [with Jeremy Corbyn], with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.”
If they’ve got any sense, they’ll try and come up with some sort of electoral understanding with the Greens or they will end up sinking each other.
Sounds cynical but I wonder if the upper echelons of the Starmer leadership, staring at an electoral annihilation at the next general election, will consider doing their own ‘French Turn’?
No, not a reference to Trotsky’s French Turn of the 30s but the French Turn of the mid-80s where an unpopular French reformist government passed legislation to change the electoral system to a form of PR to ensure that Mitterand’s Le Parti socialiste weren’t completely wiped out at the 1986 National Assembly elections.
The Daily Mail today is reporting
“a poll last week found that a new Left-wing party led by Mr Corbyn would attract 10 per cent of voters and pose a fresh challenge for Sir Keir Starmer.
The survey by More in Common showed, if the ex-Labour leader were to front a new party, it would be backed by one in 10 voters.
At the same time, Labour’s share of the vote would drop from its current 23 per cent to 20 per cent – leaving Sir Keir’s party on the same level of support as the Tories.
In a further split on the Left of British politics, the Greens would drop from 9 per cent to 5 per cent if Mr Corbyn took the helm of a new party.”Polls are what they are worth and generally come up with the answer those who commission them want but this doesn’t seem unreasonable, i.e., 10 percent and that support from such a party would come from people who currently would vote Labour or Green.
Of course the new party has not yet been formed and Sultana has only announced that she will “co-lead” moves to form such a party. If formed, it will have to work out how to deal with the Trotskyist groups who will “enter” it en masse. See how the SWP has reported it:
Andrew Feinstein announces left alternative at Marxism Festival
As to the Greens, it will depend on who wins the leadership election there and whether it’s the leftwing candidate Zach Polanski who claims that the Green Party already is a “socialist party” (some Trot groups are already in it). My guess is that he won’t as the Greens have more in common with the Liberals and won’t want to alienate voters in the ex-Tory seats they won in the general election. They are pathetic wishy-washy lot anyway. We’ll see.
Let’s hope that the new leftwing reformist party doesn’t include the word “socialist” in its name.
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