cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35167663
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.
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
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))
You find calling for peace talks concerning?
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.
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.
Funny how, according to this article, his stance on Russia/Ukraine is “Palestine should be free”. Really concerning stuff.
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.
Wow I don’t know if I’ve ever come across anyone who holds all of those specific opinions. It’s genuinely interesting to me. I’d have expected “he’s a raging antisemite” instead of “good on Gaza”, given the rest of what you said
Or is it when you say “literally everything else” do you just mean “other foreign policy stuff”?
“he’s an antisemite” is sooo yesteryear, you need to keep up with the propaganda smear machine.
This commenter is just understandably misled by the UK media’s decades-long smear campaign. He is absolutely not “a huge supporter of Putin and russian genocidal imperialism as well”, if you take a look at his history of words and actions.
How is supporting the annexation of Crimea (just one example in context of Ukraine, there are many more) not open support for russian genocidal imperialism?
The fucker openly works with russian propaganda/intel services. This has nothing to do with the UK media.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Corbyn+support+Crimea+annexation
Yep as I expected, nothing about supporting the annexation or openly working with Russian propaganda/intel services. In fact what I’m seeing from googling that is many examples of him actually publicly condemning the Russian governments actions over the years, including the invasion of Ukraine. If he’s under Russian employ as you say, I’m very surprised they didn’t fire him years ago
But yeah you’re clearly someone who sees the Ukrainian government and NATO as perfect and could never do anything wrong and will continue to do so. So anyone who says even slightly different is worthy to be demonised by you, whether it’s actually true or not they even said anything like that. And before you accuse me of being a “Russia sympathiser” or whatever I completely believe Russia is the aggressor and that we should be supoorting Ukraine. Just not that Ukraine and NATO have been 100% good themselves
Like, for instance, it’s also funny that people can’t see that NATO are loving the invasion. It means they don’t have to all openly go to war with Russia to severely weaken it, something they’ve always wanted. They can just use Ukraine in a proxy war and allow the country and people to suffer all the hardships while the rest of NATO just pump Ukraine with war funding and the politicians in government in those countries get an easy win in popularity. Starmer is a great example of this, just about everything he’s done is unpopular and the UK population for the most part are at the very least disappointed in him. The only time he was really popular was when he was all nice to Zelenskyy after the terrible Trump meeting he went through. Which is exactly what Starmer should have done of course, but it just shows how much of an easy goal it is
Your starting point was a web search! Corbyn is a huge promoter or russian propaganda on NATO, his fake peacnik organization recognized Crimea as part of russia.
Ukraine and NATO have not been good? What does that even mean?
That’s a russian propaganda narrative. You don’t speak Ukrainian (or russian) and you’ve never even lived in Ukraine (Donbas or any other part).
Get the fuck out of here with your “NATO is at fault” and “proxy war” bullshit, you ignorant, lazy, dishonest, fake leftist! A real leftist would recognise that countries have the right to self determination.
Can you provide interviews or clips where he’s been a promoter of russian propaganda?
- He has worked with RT, a Russian propaganda service aimed at the west managed by russian intel services.
- He routinely promotes russian propaganda narratives about NATO
- His fake peacenik organization (he is the executive director who is responsible for such press releases) recognized russia as part of Ukraine.
- He openly opposed weapons deliveries to Ukraine after the full scale in order to give russia an edge in the invasion
I don’t even need to do a web search to write out these points. Who would have thought that in a country being invaded by russia for 11 years out of its 34 years of independence, the media would report on Western leaders collaborating with russians?
Or do you think we are all dumb eastern european sour cream n1ggaz who don’t have journalism?
You can look up the sources for the abovementioned points, it’s not difficult. Or assume I am lying, whatever works for you.
How is he not a supporter of Russian gencidal imperialism? He openly supports the annexation of Crimea (and by extension the prosecution of Ukrainian speakers and Crimean Tartars in occupied territories). He is also huge supporter of russian propaganda resources.
I am more aware of his tankie foreign policy views (I am not from the UK), but based on discussions with friends who do live there, his economic policies are also uninspired (nationalizations etc.) even if you are left leaning.
Repeating it doesn’t make it true. How are you not a supporter of Russian genocidal imperialism?
Yeah Skiluros, please tell us how you’re not a supporter yourself
It’s true, Corbyn worked with a RT, a russian propaganda service that’s managed by russian intel services.
Corbyn is one the largest promoter of russian propaganda narratives about “NATO is responsible for the invasion”.
Corbyn’s fake-peacenik organziation recognized Crimea as part of russia.
Even russians know it’s not true (about NATO), their sole goal is to manipulate ignorant, fake-leftists like yourself. You’re justing how ignorant you are.
It’s literally written in their key doctrinal text on foreign policy operations.
You don’t speak russian (or Ukrainian) and you’ve never lived in Ukraine or russia. You’re just a fake leftist who is in it for aesthetic reasons.
Ahh I see you are a Russian genocide supporter, you weren’t able to prove otherwise and us just saying words with no evidence is enough to prove our point that you are a supporter right? I mean I didn’t have to do a google search to know that about you, you’re famously a supporter of Russia
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?
