A historic opportunity for the British left is being thrown away. This very public Your Party row must stop now

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana on a picket line outside London Euston train station, 18 August 2022. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

We write as friends and comrades.

The need for a new party of the left has long been clear. It is now more urgent as Keir Starmer’s Labour party falls headlong into one moral void after another: surrendering to corporate raiders and the City, cutting disability benefits, placating racists, rescinding political rights, colluding with Israel’s genocide etc.