Original article republished from Socialist Worker

‘Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic,’ she told Socialist Worker

Zarah Sultana issued a rallying call for the left to unite and fight ahead of the Your Party founding conference in Liverpool this weekend.

She told Socialist Worker, “Labour is plummeting in the polls because this government has failed the working class.

“It has failed to help people here at home—and it has alienated thousands if not millions by materially participating in the genocide in Gaza.

“Reform UK is exploiting that anger, but it’s just the establishment in disguise.

“Farage scapegoats migrants to distract from his neoliberal economic agenda.

“We have a duty to offer a real alternative. Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic.

“We must build a party robust enough to take on entrenched power and win.

“No more tinkering at the edges—we need to reconstruct our society from first principles. We need socialism.

“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.

“We must fight, we must unite and we must win.”