EVEN though he died more than 15 years before the Labour Party was founded, Karl Marx took centre stage yesterday in the debate over its future.
Leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn was asked repeatedly whether he was a Marxist in an interview for the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.
He was quizzed amid claims that a tiny ultra-left sect was using his campaign as a vehicle to infiltrate Labour as part of a “revolutionary strategy.”
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN



