Rising in the UK and the US: A Democratic Left
Update: 2025-09-02
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England’s Labour Party is a lot like America’s Democratic Party: all over the map. Both used to be the party of laboring people. The UK’s current PM Kier Starmer won claiming to be of the left. Now he’s pushing an austerity agenda, helping the richest, and trying to play both sides of Gaza; like most American Democrats. It’s not working. “Safe center” Starmer is now quite unpopular. Meanwhile there is a rising racist fascist party: Nigel Farage’s Reform. On this show Jacobin magazine’s Europe editor David Broder speaks with us from “across the pond” about a surging new left party headed by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and a young MP Zarah Sultana. In just the first day, 650,000 Britons signed up. What Corbyn says applies in America too: “Politics should be about empowerment — and that’s what I want this party to be about.” Let’s learn!
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