Corbyn Launches Communist Nostalgia Party
- Editor Darren Birks
- Jul 25
- 2 min read
Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader who presided over one of the party’s worst electoral defeats in decades, has returned with a new political party aimed squarely at disaffected left-wing voters. With Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana as his co-founder, Corbyn’s breakaway project — provisionally titled Your Party — claims to stand for “transformative” socialist policies that he says Labour has abandoned under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.
The new movement plans to launch fully this autumn, with the old Trotsky banking on getting support from the young and impressionable such as members of Momentum. Supporters claim that more than 80,000 people have signed up since Corbyn’s announcement, proving that the Communist lie still works.
Key Principles of Jeremy Corbyn’s New Party:
Significantly raise taxes on the wealthy and big business.
Renationalise railways, energy, water and mail services.
Expand social housing and scrap the two-child benefit cap.
Halt arms sales to Israel and pursue an “anti-imperialist” foreign policy.
Fund a major state-led green transition under the banner of “climate justice.”
Reverse privatisation of the National Health Service.
Corbyn argues that Britain needs a return to large-scale public ownership, higher taxes for the rich and corporations, and uncompromising opposition to foreign wars. He presents this as a moral necessity to tackle inequality and climate change. His co-founder, Zarah Sultana, has said she left Labour because Starmer’s leadership has “betrayed” young, working-class and minority voters who, she claims, were inspired by Corbyn’s radical vision in 2017 and 2019.
Despite its branding as a “grassroots” movement for fairness and equality, the new party’s critics point to Corbyn’s deeply polarising record. His tenure as Labour leader was marred by persistent rows over antisemitism, factional infighting and accusations that he alienated working-class voters in former Labour heartlands.
Corbyn’s record on foreign affairs remains one of his most controversial legacies. He once described members of Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends” and has repeatedly been criticised for appearing to sympathise with groups linked to terrorism. He also infamously hosted IRA representatives in Parliament shortly after British soldiers were murdered and attended a wreath-laying for figures connected to the Munich Olympics massacre.
Expelled from Labour
In 2020, Labour expelled Corbyn after he refused to fully accept the findings of an independent investigation into antisemitism during his leadership — an episode that still casts a long shadow over his reputation among former colleagues and the wider public.
His new venture is likely to find support among the same activists and union groups who backed him during his time as Labour leader. However, it risks dividing the left’s vote in key constituencies, potentially handing victories to Conservatives or right-wing Reform UK candidates.
Higher taxes, expanded state control, hostility towards Western alliances and opposition to Israel — these are not new ideas but hallmarks of a hard-left worldview that critics argue belongs to another century.
For all its new branding, fresh slogans and promises of hope, Corbyn’s latest project is, at its core, the same old project he championed for decades: a deeply ideological push for large-scale state ownership, heavy wealth redistribution and hostility to Western foreign policy. In other words — Communism in all but name.
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