"Between 2015 and 2019 I had friends and colleagues who worked at the top of the Labour Party, and they can tell you that in parts it was a highly dysfunctional working environment with toxicity and bullying – not from Jeremy, but from some people around him. Power was too centralised. This is not what we need for this emerging project. … Everyone has to feel that they’re involved and the organisation has to be representative of wider society. That also means we can’t soft-pedal our anti-racism. Some people want us to focus solely on the 'economic issues'. But if the politics of class is detached from the politics of race then it is bound to fail – because when our neighbours are being simultaneously targeted for eviction and deportation, that struggle is one and the same."
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"The Alternative" (an interview by Oliver Eagleton), New Left Review (17 August 2025).
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Zarah Sultana
Zarah Sultana (born 31 October 1993) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South since 2019. Originally a member of the Labour Party, she was suspended from the parliamentary whip on 23 July 2024 and sits as an independent. She left the Labour Party and joined the Independent Alliance in 2025.
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