Barely two months after Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s July 24 joint announcement of “a new kind of politics”, under the temporary banner of ‘Your Party’, simmering tensions between their two camps erupted into the open on September 18.

Eager to knock down the possibility of a new alternative developing to the capitalist parties even before it is properly formed, the establishment media jumped in. The Guardian, the tame house-journal of Keir Starmer’s New Labour Mark II party, relished in the ‘terminal feel’ of an “early split” which leaves, “it would seem”, the hundreds of thousands who signed up “still politically homeless”. (19 September)
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