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By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025 17:47 BSTNow, he is organising a Gaza Tribunal of his own. “We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry,” Corbyn says.
“It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the West Bank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts.”
[Note to our Fedi friends in the UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via Peertube in some fashion.]
The new party was announced on 3 July, when MP Zarah Sultana left the Labour Party and said she would co-lead a different outfit with Corbyn.
That party doesn’t exist yet. It doesn’t even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.
Polling this week found that a third of 2024 Labour voters would consider voting for a Corbyn-Sultana-led party, as well as over a quarter of Labour members.
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Someone please tell me why I shouldn’t be optimistic about this.
I don’t know a great deal, but his stance on the Russia/Ukraine war concerns me.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-urges-west-to-stop-arming-ukraine
Don’t see that objectionable stuff in there, really. I’m in favour of arming Ukraine. This article is several years old. It’s not like Starmer stopped the war either. In fact, I think most Western European politicians have an interest in the war dragging on for as long as possible
Nah, he openly supports the annexation of Crimea (which means he supports the prosecution of Ukrainian speakers and Crimean Tartars).
The stuff about western leaders wanting the war to drag on as long as possible is a tankie conspiracy theory.
I was wondering if what you were saying about Corbyn was true, so I looked up most of your claims (all true for those I checked), and I thought I’d share what I found for others.
Corbyn used Russian talking points as justification for not wanting to do anything about Russia’s conquest of Crimea: http://www.hscentre.org/russia-and-eurasia/corbyn-wrong-says-ukrainian-human-rights-legend/
Corbyn has indeed worked with RT. This article called him a frequent guest: https://www.thearticle.com/rt-is-putins-propaganda-channel-so-why-do-british-politicians-agree-to-appear-on-it
Corbyn is indeed against NATO: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyn-did-call-for-nato-to-disband-but-its-labour-policy-to-stay-in
And Corbyn does indeed oppose weapon deliveries to Ukraine because “it would prolong the war”: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/26/labour-left-breaks-with-jeremy-corbyn-over-sending-weapons-to-ukraine
As I mentioned in this thread, only an idiot would think such matters wouldn’t be reported in Ukrainian media (that has no stake in internal UK politics).
[1] actually referenced a different specific example, but the point remains.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/t5uaq4/private_eye_used_an_actual_image_from_stop_the/
The image in that reddit thread is from “Stop the War” fake-peace, pro russian genocidal imperialism organization. And that tankie Corbyn roach has a senior position in that shit org.
He Putin’s basically. Maybe out of naivety, but the result is the same.
If he supports it so openly, why is there only evidence of the opposite? Do you need your meds?
Don’t lie. His fake peacenik organisation recognized Crimea as part of russia.
Imagine being given the opportunity to fact check yourself, and instead choosing to fall deeper into delusion and paranoia. I’m sorry for you
Keep playing dumb. You don’t even speak Ukrainian (or russian) and you’re acting like some sort authority with you “opportunity to fact check yourself”.
You don’t know jack shit (and we both know this). Keep pretending otherwise. 😄
I think it’s pretty obvious and I despise tankies. Look at what they’re doing, not just what they’re saying. Russia is a serious threat and they’re finally seeing it. Better to have them fighting in Ukraine than their country
Edit: speaking of nasty conspiracy theories, btw, Starmerites calling Corbyn an antisemite was really the lowest of the low. Labour has been taken over by neoliberals fighting the left harder than the right
Edit: oh no I angered the tankies lol
What they are doing (being slow and inconsistent with weapon deliveries) is driven is by fear and the receptiveness of their electorates to russian sabre rattling (even thought such strategies are openly described in key russian doctrinal texts) and russian propaganda.
I hate Corbyn, but I don’t think he is an anti-semite (or maybe I just don’t know enough). There is more than enough things to call him out for beyond vague notions of anti-semitism.
He is anti war. He has been anti war for decades and decades. He is authentic and consistent on this issue. I don’t agree how he is applying that principle on Russia Ukraine, but I respect his opinion.
And that’s democracy, which is what his new party is making promises of - it will be a bottom up, grass-root and democratic party. So I am not too concerned with Corbyn’s personal opinion.
(And like, the detractors are so fixated on this issue. They literally have nothing else to say, no other critics to offer. You mention Corbyn and immediately they are like “oH wHat aBoUt Russia-Ukraine” (a few years ago it was “oH bUt He iS an aNtiSemIte???”), as if that is the single most significant problem Britain is facing right now?? not housing, not NHS, not education, not the gutting of the wealth of the working class??? Talking about single issue voters. (sorry about the rant))
He is not anti-war, he is pro-russian genocidal imperialism.
He is a tankie, and when has the working class done well under regimes that tankies support?
Lol dude, your brian is melted. What are you even saying.
Funny how, according to this article, his stance on Russia/Ukraine is “Palestine should be free”. Really concerning stuff.
You find calling for peace talks concerning?
Calling for peace talks in this situation is like calling for marriage in couples counseling of a failing relationship, because married couples stay together longer.
Peace talks don’t create peace, they happen when peace becomes desirable because of battlefield and political realities. Arming Ukraine more can shorten the war. Calling for premature talks can only prolong it.
Because we have FPTP and this will further split the left vote and let Reform / Tories in.
Our number one priority should be to kill FPTP and make it so we don’t have governments only a minority of the voters wanted.
We know a Corbyn Labour party scares people to vote against Labour. He has a ceiling. There is a lot of country that subscribes to his views, but not enough to do more than strip those votes from Lab/Lib/SNP/Green/Plaid.
Reform are worse than Tories and I fear if they ever get power, they do a Trump. Damage the country and be hard to remove.
They will at the very least need a pact with Polanski’s Greens. If Starmer continues down his current trajectory, I can see a similar exodus of Labour voters to these two to Tory voters’ exodus to Reform
If you go from Labour to Reform, your not of the Left. Or fooled. Guess will find out if the left is so split by election time and Reform splip in. I’m blame Corybn for that like I do for Boris’s win. That time it was by repelling people to the Tories. This time it would be vote splitting. Though I agree with a good chunk of what he says, he a political menace of the left.
Corbyn is good on Gaza, but he is terrible on literally everything else. He is a huge supporter of Putin and russian genocidal imperialism as well.
the only way komrad korbyn will get his authoritarian chum farage elected is by splitting the left vote. the most effective way to do that is to abuse the only issue his non-party has and have a show trial. i notice historians are not on the list of the invited.
and how will this help gazans? not in the slightest, but that was never the point and who really ever gave a damn about peace in gaza anyway?
Which issue? Redistribution of wealth by taxing billionaires? Taking utilities back into public ownership? Building council houses?
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Well this thread has taught me the anti-Corbyn people are completely unhinged
