[5] Her mother is a social worker[5] who was an anti-racist and trade union activist in the 1970s and 1980s,[4][6] helping to organise marches following the racially motivated murder of Altab Ali.

[13] Sarkar appeared in the 2019 BBC documentary series Rise of the Nazis to "illuminate the context and perspective of Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933, who died in a concentration camp in 1944".

"[7] After joining the Labour Party during the UK general election campaign in late 2019, Sarkar became closely associated in the media commentary on Corbyn's democratic socialist project.

In 2019, Sarkar said that, on reflection, she should have "drawn a line between defending Ewa, criticising the coverage and being more critical of the action itself which I don't think was well thought out".

She said the loss of jobs due to automation could give rise to fascism as a way of controlling the "surplus disposable population".

Alternatively, the extra time created by automation could liberate people to "imagine different ways of living" and "pursu[ing] your passions".

[31][32] Sarkar wrote in The Guardian that the abuse had affected her mental health and that she had been prescribed anti-anxiety drugs for the first time in her life.

She also wrote: "The media's reporting of the issue ignored the defamation, racism and harassment in favour of framing me as part of the woke mob—and Burchill as its victim.