Ginger Ninja
Yes indeed who will rein in the factions? We do not have a functioning democracy and the glimmer of hope we had with Corbyn has now been extinguished by the advent of ‘safe hands’ Starmer whose main aim was to neutralise the risk from the left for the benefit of the establishment of which he is part. It seems to cause no loss of sleep for the Labour party to have a Sir as its leader. And as you say the press has now been cowed and is an arm of the establishment.
What hope is there? Maybe global warming is the tool that will see the end of capitalism as it seems to be beyond human greed to realise what a damaging system it is. But will there be anything salvageable?