Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external

ALMOST certainly a national election campaign has never been launched in Ashton-under-Lyne before.
Chalk it up as another first for George Galloway, on the stage in the market square to kick off a Workers Party election effort that will run to at least 326 candidates, enough to make the prospect of a Galloway premiership a mathematical possibility come July 4.
Standing before an imposing, yet shuttered and crumbling town hall — insert your own metaphor here, I’m going for something to do with the Labour Party — Galloway is also on his own final election outing.

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

From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT

With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
