Over 600 000 join new UK left-wing party in just a few days

 

It's not reported much.

But it has gathered 500 000 people and counting in the first few days, then 600 000 people before the end of July. 

The new party initiated by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana already surpass the membership of any existing political party in Britain. 

Former Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn attends a pro-Palestinian protest outside Downing Street, a demonstration featuring the banging of pots and pans to honour the Palestinians shot while queuing for food in Gaza, in London, Britain, July 25, 2025. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes

According to the rare news agencies reporting on it, the appetite for a left alternative to Labour has long been clear, but even supporters of the project had expected a response on this scale.

On Thursday 24 July, Corbyn finally confirmed the creation of a new left-wing party in Britain. 

The party will now hold an inaugural conference this autumn.

The success seems links to the fact that many workers and young people have lost faith in the Labour party under the leadership of Keir Starmer,  due to a right-wing shift, pro-business stance and denial of the genocide in Gaza.

The new party’s brief launch statement, signed by Corbyn and Sultana, declared, “It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that belongs to you.” 

It points to the millions living in poverty as “giant corporations make a fortune” and the government provides “billions for war”, and to “the government’s complicity in crimes against humanity”.

The statement also calls for a “mass redistribution of wealth and power”, for the defence of “the right to protest against genocide”, and opposes the scapegoating of migrants and refugees and the “fossil fuel giants putting their profits before our planet”. It is “ordinary people who create the wealth,” it continues, “and it is ordinary people who have the power to put it back where it belongs.”