Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
THE local elections in May are very important. The outcome can affect tens of millions of people in important aspects of their lives.
They are also an opportunity to send a strong message of rejection to this rotten government. We need the strongest possible vote for Labour, and I would urge everyone who can to go out campaigning too.
But if reports are to be believed, a rather strange debate has opened up within the highest ranks of the Parliamentary Labour Party about strategy in this and other elections.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process



