ZARAH SULTANA has said Your Party must be “explicitly socialist” as she argued the new left-wing party must “embrace class war.”

The independent MP, who co-launched Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn in July, made the comments at a supporters’ event in County Durham on Saturday.

She said: “You can’t beat far-right politicians and fascism by ignoring them, or, as the Labour Party are doing, copying them.

“You do it by uniting the working class around a positive vision, and by building a movement that is broad and rooted in solidarity.

“People don’t want or need cultural wars — they need hope they need material improvements in their lives. 

“What I’m saying is, we need socialism. We need to be explicitly socialist.

“That is not tweaking here and there. It’s not just lowering a few bills and a wealth tax just sprinkled on top, but it is a fundamental transformation of our society: the working class controlling the wealth that they produce and the means of production in their hands.

“We need an anti-Nazi anti-fascist league for the 21st century.”

The former Labour MP added that the working class aren’t “turned off” by class war because “they live it every single day. 

“So we need to embrace class war, and it’s time we won,” she said.

Ms Sultana did not address the recent resignation of one of Your Party’s founder members, Independent Alliance MP Adnan Hussain, nor the impasse concerning a company that collected supporters’ money while it was being formally constituted, which she has taken over.

But she vowed: “I will always fight for maximum member democracy — you have my word — that’s what all of this has been about: you having the power to shape this party.

“We will always stand with the most oppressed shoulder to shoulder and that means, as I’ve said before, trans rights are human rights.”

Mr Hussain hit out at a culture of “persistent infighting, factionalism and a struggle for power” and “veiled prejudice” against Muslim men when he resigned from the party’s founding process on Friday.

Its founding conference will be held in Liverpool later this month.

Draft founding documents have proposed a single leadership model, with elections to commence in the new year.