Apparently it appears that Corbyn’s project falls short of what is needed: workers’ struggle for socialist demands. But it is not so. He would continue to identify his project with the workers’ struggle and support social justice, peace and human rights not only in the UK instead around the world.

The former Labour leader said his Peace and Justice Project would “bring people together” to create “a future that works for the many, not the few”. The Labour leader Keir Starmer has tried his best to completely isolate Corbyn from the rank and file and project him as a apostate, but miserably failed in his endeavour. In fact Corbyn took the initiative to float the project at the suggestion of his Labour comrades.

Corbyn, now an independent MP, launched the initiative in January with the mission to bring people together to support social and environmental justice, peace and internationalism, and will focus on combating poverty, inequality and unaccountable corporate power. The mission of the organisation, in the words of Corbyn, is to create space, hope and opportunity for those campaigning for social justice and a future that works for the many, not the few. It would promote global cooperation, climate justice, self-determination, democracy and human rights by working with social movements and trade unions to build networks for progressive change.

Corbyn nurses the idea to combine research and analysis with campaigning and organising for building popular socialist policies developed in the Labour party over the past five years. He said; “This year, many of us have felt powerless in the face of forces beyond our control. It doesn’t have to be like that. Things can, and they will, change.”

Rafael Correa, the former president of Ecuador, has already welcomed the initiative saying: “Coronavirus has shown again how neoliberalism is incapable of dealing with the huge crisis our societies face. Now, more than ever, we need to be united in our struggles across the world against neoliberalism and inequality. We need to build a world where corporate power is replaced with real democracy, where people have access to full rights, key services like health and education, and a life with dignity.” Rafael announced; “I look forward to working with him for a world where people come before capital.”

Corbyn was suspended from the Labour party after saying the scale of the problem investigated by the EHRC had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons” by opponents and the media. Starmer had offered to take him back but with a rider that he ought to apologise, which was not acceptable to Corbyn.

Most of the trade unions and labour organisations which formed the backbone of Labour have extended their support to Corbyn in his new mission. Corbyn has pledged to work with unions and social movements to build a network of campaigners, grassroots activists, thinkers and leaders, to share experiences and generate ideas about solutions to the problems.

Scrutiny of the literature reveals exactly how the Project plans to save humanity. They’re going to ‘back campaigns, commission reports and provide platforms.’ Corbyn is not really proposing to end the woes of the downtrodden but certainly use the existing mechanism, to make them of the reasons for their sufferings and how to fight them out.

While launching the project Corbyn narrated the inability of the privatised, hollowed-out systems to meet the challenges of the time. He also pointed out how the Black Lives Matter movement has fuelled a global response to the scourge of racism, and how the climate crisis threatens us. He called for solidarity across borders and communities to solve common problems together.

On this occasion Heinz Bierbaum, President of the European Left, said, ‘Jeremy Corbyn has gone to the heart of the challenge facing millions of people across Europe – our societies are unjust and unequal. They have been made worse by a decade or more of privatisation and austerity, inflicted by the system itself and the governments that run it. We need new hope, new solidarity, and new answers to bring forward the policies that will reverse this disaster and build the fair, just and peaceful societies that humanity deserves.

He made clear that in order to ensure that the working class does not continue to pay for the crisis of Covid and economic recession, 2021 will need to be a year of struggle. Working class people nurse the view that Corbyn’s five years as the head of Labour Party might have enabled rank-and-file members to democratise the party but it did not happen as Blairites, pro-capitalist elements dictated the functioning of the party. They still dominate many of the elected positions within Labour to this day.

Many leftwing Labour leaders underline the need for a new party to fight the Tory government. The Labour cadres and supporters are so disillusioned with the functioning of the present leadership that they argued for an open and Democratic Party. Many on the left welcome the launch of Corbyn’s Project and keen to get directly involved in helping to coordinate local and national events. They hold questions of war, poverty, and oppression are all issues that are in the very DNA of capitalism. Inequality and poverty are direct consequences of the capitalist system, which is inherently based on exploitation.

These leaders argue that working class is larger than it has ever been in history. If organised and united, workers have the power to bring the bosses’ system to a grinding halt. Here in Britain, this class anger has been expressed through the ongoing civil war within Labour. Turning away from this struggle against Starmer and the agents of capitalism in the party is not a step forward in the fight for socialism. (IPA Service)