Sign-ups for Corbyn’s new party now surpass peak Labour membership
Following the announcement that former Labour leader and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn would be founding a new political party together with ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana, hundreds of thousands of people have signed up to the movement.
Corbyn recently announced on X that more than 600,000 people had signed up to the new political organisation, which will aim to challenge established parties including Labour and Reform UK.
This number far surpasses the current Labour membership, which has fallen to around 309,000 since Starmer’s government won power last year.
The number of registrations for Corbyn and Sultana’s party now even exceed the membership of the Labour party at its peak, which was just over 564,000 when Corbyn was party leader in 2017.
In a statement confirming the launch of the new party, Corbyn and Sultana said the British system was ‘rigged’, pointing to the 4.5 million children living in poverty, corporations making billions from increasing bills, and increased defence spending at the cost of welfare.
Corbyn’s new party, which is as yet unnamed, has made economic inequality a central political issue, calling for the fairer distribution of wealth and an end to the demonisation of migrants and refugees.
Other key issues championed by the organisation include investing in council housing, keeping the NHS from being privatised, ending all arm sales to Israel, and nationalising water, energy, rail, and mail.
“The great dividers want you to think that the problems in our society are caused by migrants or refugees. They’re not,” Corbyn and Sultana said.
“We will only fix the crises in our society with a mass redistribution of wealth and power.”
Those who sign up through the party’s registration page will be able to attend the organisation’s inaugural conference and vote on the party’s official name and leadership.
