Public Meeting
Wednesday 19 November 7.30 PM
All Saints Community Centre, 105 New Cross Road, London SE14 5DJ
(entrance on Monson Road nearest tube New Cross Gate)
Many people on the left have welcomed the formation of Your Party hoping it can be a progressive vehicle for change. But it is clear that it is trying to bridge fundamental political differences that exist between its co-founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana that reflect a completely different understanding of the way forward for the working class in Britain.
The most crucial of these are on Palestine. Sultana has expressed an uncompromising stance of anti-Zionism, support for a single, secular Palestinian state and the need to isolate Israel. Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn upholds the idea of a two-state solution for Palestine; a reactionary position supported by the Labour Party that endorses an imperialist-backed plan that has nothing to do with self-determination for the Palestinians. Corbyn pushed Labour into accepting the Zionist IHRA definition of anti-Semitism during his term as Labour leader, and remains reluctant to declare himself an anti-Zionist.
Sultana’s support for trans rights and opposition to landlords puts her at odds with Corbyn’s alliance with socially conservative Independent MPs. She has made it clear that capitalism must be overthrown and that socialism is the only way to lay the foundations for genuine equality, solidarity and freedom.
Her progressive statements are incompatible with the reactionary positions of the Corbyn wing of Your Party. There’s no point in ‘unity’ if it means capitulation to pro-Zionist, pro-imperialist policies. The fight for socialism demands a complete split from the forces of social democracy.