Zarah Sultana at the supporters’ event in County Durham. Photo: Neil Terry PhotographyZARAH SULTANA has said Your Party must be “explicitly socialist” as she argued the new left-wing party must “embrace class war.”
The independent MP, who co-launched Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn in July, made the comments at a supporters’ event in County Durham on Saturday.
She said: “You can’t beat far-right politicians and fascism by ignoring them, or, as the Labour Party are doing, copying them.
“You do it by uniting the working class around a positive vision, and by building a movement that is broad and rooted in solidarity.
“People don’t want or need cultural wars — they need hope they need material improvements in their lives.
“What I’m saying is, we need socialism. We need to be explicitly socialist.
“That is not tweaking here and there. It’s not just lowering a few bills and a wealth tax just sprinkled on top, but it is a fundamental transformation of our society: the working class controlling the wealth that they produce and the means of production in their hands.
“We need an anti-Nazi anti-fascist league for the 21st century.”
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