\n Amongst the crowd, I also noticed Alison Thewliss, the former SNP<\/a> MP who lost her seat\u00a0in Glasgow to Labour during the last election. I ask her if she thinks her own party should be worried about an insurgent left coalition led by Mr Corbyn. She\u2019s tight-lipped, but questions whether the party can make much of an impact with \u201cvery little infrastructure on the ground.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n So where does Mr Corbyn and Zarah Sultana\u2019s new party stand in Scotland?\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cYour party dot UK\u201d as Mr Corbyn refers to it, has been widely ridiculed online and in the press for a rocky start. Leaked internal squabbles, a confusing name, and a perceived lack of executive control, makes it appear to many as unserious and destined to be unsuccessful. Not an unwarranted assumption\u00a0considering the political history of its Co-Leader.\n<\/p>\n \n But putting that aside, from estimating the average age two-hundred or so people gathered to see Mr Corbyn speak, it\u2019s evident that the party would live and die with the youth vote.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n At 19-years-old, one of the strike organisers, Stella, says that she finds Mr Corbyn\u2019s new party\u2019s platform \u201creally inspiring.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s not like anything I\u2019ve seen in politics recently,\u201d she tells me. \u201cI think if there was a way of collaborating, at least in some form with the Green Party so that it doesn’t split the left-wing vote too much, that would be brilliant.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n But like many people I speak to, she\u2019s reluctant to commit to voting for them, as she fears that the voting makeup of her contingency could mean that the party amounts to a \u201cwasted vote\u201d.\n<\/p>\n \n Although another attendee, 30-year-old Ryan, tells me he\u2019s ready to \u201cput his full weight behind the party\u201d as he sees it as a vehicle to \u201cpush back against Reform UK<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n \n Mr Corbyn closes with a call to join his party which, he says, is \u201can organisation rooted in working class communities to bring about social change and social justice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n News broke today that Mr Corbyn will be returning to Glasgow next month alongside Ms Sultana to launch the party\u2019s first Scottish branch.\n<\/p>\n \n Perhaps the socialist duo with a properly marketed event could tap into a greater swathe of voters in Scotland beyond those who are drawn to a picket line.\n<\/p>\nMr Corbyn and Ms Sultana are due to visit Glasgow together next month to launch their party’s first Scottish branch (Image: Leon Neal)The crowd pulsates in applause as Mr Corbyn can be seen approaching the picket. He speaks for fewer than ten minutes, but his audience are pleased, grinning, cheering – a member of the rival established Socialist Worker\u2019s Party tells me he felt enlivened by the speech.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n