Speaking briefly over the phone from the US about his plans for Tribune, Sunkara told BuzzFeed News he hoped to restart the printing of the magazine, putting out an issue maybe either bimonthly or monthly.

"We want to create something that isn't just about one figure, Corbyn, but a wider set of ideas. We want to create something that’s a step removed from politics and to get Tribune back to its former stature," he said.

"We want it to be intellectual but something a precocious teenager could grapple with."



Sunkara said the purchase of Tribune included the former magazine's intellectual property and archives, which means he may look to eventually republish old Tribune pieces online.

"A chunk of our purpose here is to be good stewards of material important for the Labour movement," he said. "But we'll just have the new content for starters until we get together the resources to create an online archive, which I hope will be free of charge and available to all."



Sunkara started producing Jacobin from his dorm room in 2011. Since then, the publication has grown in stature — it claims to have 30,000 subscribers and a "web audience" of 1 million — alongside the rise of 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his unapologetic promotion of socialism in the United States.

Two years ago, a long Vox media profile of Sunkara and Jacobin called the publication the "leading intellectual voice of the American left". It also reported Labour's proudly socialist shadow chancellor John McDonnell was a "loyal reader" of the magazine — a McDonnell spokesperson did not return requests for comment.

Sunkara's Jacobin has been closely following British socialism, especially since the rise of Corbyn several years ago. The US magazine has published recent pieces titled "Why Corbyn Won", "Jeremy Corbyn's Labour vs. the Single Market", and "Is Corbyn the Future of the Left?" It's also interviewed Labour's shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott.



Sunkara said the relaunched Tribune wants to get beyond "bad-faith" criticisms being made against Corbyn by journalists and pundits in the British press and take on the ideas behind Labour's socialist policies.

"There are so many bad-faith attacks on Corbyn and socialism in the British media," he said. "And it’s a discourse that the American media has gotten into.

"I’m hoping we can get beyond that.”