Labour ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn says he’s starting a new left-wing UK party
As the economy melts down and people’s need to collectivise to insulate against the wolf at the door, the political spectrum is splintering.
If a New Left Party can happen in the UK, could it happen herein NZ?
I think a Labour/Green/Māori Party Government could do some truely radical transformation so much so that I don’t think a New Left Party in this stage of the election cycle would helpful.
However.
If they fail collectively to reach 51%, I certainly believe a New Left Party could form in the ashes of a 2026 defeat.
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At least here with MMP such support will translate into seats in parliament.
The UK scene is going to be in for a change or three the way things are going.
Here is Slavoj Zizek with his latest stimulating idea about politics that seems to fit with what can be observed now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSYjmH_WPQQ
(To understand what he is saying press CC in white square at base of image.)
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek addresses the Oxford Union about his belief that the world is moving to what he refers to as ‘soft fascism’, AI and that increased shamelessness in what is accepted publicly is emboldening leaders of the right…
The right would love a new left party, simply so that the left vote is further split.
But, yeah – with MMP it might work.
Perhaps TOP will re-emerge.
I’d rather that Labour grows a spine and bravely transform our country for the better, instead of pulling everything down and selling it off, like this current bunch of CoCs.
This would require someone remotely principled like Corbyn to come out of the Labour Party, and for them to see forming a new party as more advantageous than say, joining the (considerably more electorally relevant here) Green Party. The first condition seems impossible, the second unlikely.
The only way to form a viable new parliamentary party in New Zealand would be by way of a candidate contesting and winning a constituency seat, probably as an independent initially, and then forming a party around that member. Not that I am recommending that course of action. I actually think that playing the game of parliamentary politics will inevitably lead to betrayal and disappointment. Just saying that the only strategy that could work in the current political climate or anything close to it would be one that circumvents the 5% threshold.
If you want to fail, try being everything to all people.
This is what Labour has died of – they want to be conspicuous ‘not racists’ when migration is problematic and is being used to both suppress wages and spruik real estate speculation which is ruinous to our economy.
The Greens have accommodated a lot of activists who know little or nothing about the environment, and pursue other issues.
NZ has no party looking after core business – sane, forward-looking policy. Decent health, housing, and education. Neoliberalism has completely discredited itself, and TPM want to be publicly funded separatists.
Any halfway decent new party has fair prospects, apart from the media life-support that protects the current crop of clowns – and most kiwis wouldn’t throw most of those clowns a rope if they were drowning.
New left party needed for sure–but…wait till after 2026 to avoid more distractions when there are two clear priorities: 1) defeat CoC even if it is a narrow win, 2) a massive enrolment and get out the vote campaign to negate back CoC’s voter suppression measures.
The disarray of the NZ marxist left (reflected internationally) since the 90s, and NZ Labour driving out leftists with the “Backbone Club”–Prebble and the Rogernomes–leading to the formation of New Labour and the Alliance etc. is what got us here.
Sounds feasible the way you put it TM
The only way to make Sorry those who sold us out during our lifetimes is to move on without them.
John A Lee never got out the much needed public message that Michael Savage was an absolute dud.
The abuser we are moving away from is Identity Politics. John A Lee, just him solo, never fell for that.
The question is whether there are enough of us presently who hate Identity Politics and ready to leave Labour in the dust with National.
Are we pivotal yet? Stopped jumping??
No Jews need apply
Here are we worryng our little minds about the future and what to do for the best and you Tr. come out with a silly remark that shows how bird-witted you are. Any little correct point you have made in the past has been extinguished. You can’t even hide your light under a bushel now – it ran off into the stygian gloom.
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