Jacobin Radio: A Left Split From Labour w/ Tariq Ali

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Suzi speaks to Tariq Ali about Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party — provisionally called Your Party — which has surpassed Labour’s membership with over 650,000 sign-ups. Your Party calls for public ownership, redistribution, and a politics rooted in communities, unions and social movements. Starmer’s Labour government has nothing for the population, but billions for war and complicity in genocide. Supporters see a historic opening for the Left; critics warn it could split the vote and hand power to Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK, which has overtaken the weakened Tories. We get Tariq Ali’s assessment of Your Party’s politics, prospects, and perils.

Then Flor Melendrez of CLEAN Carwash, the country’s first car wash worker center, talks to Suzi about the escalating ICE raids on carwasheros across Southern California. ICE uses racial profiling to conduct suspicion-less stops, warrantless home raids, and illegal workplace actions. A new class action lawsuit demands an immediate halt to these violations of the 4th and 5th Amendments of the Constitution. Flor tells us how ICE raids are hitting carwasheros in their workplaces, and how these workers are organizing to defend their jobs and families.

Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:12.6	Tarak Ali joins me from London to discuss Jeremy Corbin and Zara Zultana's new party,
0:18.5	provisionally called Your Party, which exploded on the political scene,
0:23.1	surpassing Labor's membership in weeks with over 650,000 sign-ups. The basis for the new party
0:30.2	is that the Labor Party is running on empty with nothing for the population, no money to raise
0:35.4	living standards, but billions for war and compulsity in genocide,
0:39.6	even as it now promises to recognize Palestinian statehood. Your party calls for public
0:45.5	ownership, redistribution, and politics rooted in communities and movements. Supporters see a
0:51.0	historic opening for the left. Critics warn it could split the vote and hand power to Nigel Farage's far-right Reform UK, which has overtaken the weakened Tories. We get Tarrick Ali's assessment of your party's politics, prospects, and perils. Then to Los Angeles. Flor Melendris of Clean Car Wash reports on the impact of
1:13.2	escalating ice raids on carwash arrows across Southern California. A sweeping immigration
1:18.5	dragnet has turned L.A. into ground zero for the Trump-Steven Miller assault on immigrant workers.
1:24.8	Military-strile raids with armored vehicles, agents on horseback,
1:29.3	flashbang grenades, and tear gas against protesters. Public opinion is shifting. A record,
1:35.5	79% of Americans now view immigration as a good for the country, while support for mass
1:40.9	deportations and Trump's border wall is waning. Yet ICE and Border Patrol
1:45.7	persist with racial profiling, warrantless home raids, and illegal workplace actions,
1:51.6	prompting a class action lawsuit, demanding an immediate halt to these constitutional violations
1:57.3	of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Floor Melendres tells us how ice raids are hitting car washeros and how her organization
2:05.4	is fighting back, all when our program returns in just a moment.
2:17.2	This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.
2:21.1	Tarak Ali joins me today from London to discuss Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultanah's new party.
2:28.0	It's provisionally named Your Party, which exploded on the political scene in Britain and in short order surpassed the Labor Party
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