Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

MUCH of Westminster Labour found an electoral victory with Jeremy Corbyn as leader a more unnerving prospect than defeat.
From within the Westminster bubble Labour’s meteoritic rise in the weeks before polling day in 2017 challenged the collective sense of self and the foundations of their political thought.
The strategic assumptions which all Labour’s Establishment tendencies shared — the notion that the middle ground in politics is critical, that undecided voters in swing constituencies are the target demographic — were subverted by the runaway success of Labour’s radical manifesto proposals which reached parts of the electorate barely touched by electoral politics.

Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT

Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT

Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT

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