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

LAST week’s parliamentary debacle was a depressing affair. The Labour opposition failed to oppose a Bill that would permit agents of the imperial state to commit crimes without fear of the consequences that would be visited on Her Majesty’s less privileged subjects.
It illustrated just how far we are from the hopes and expectations that were engendered when, as recently as early last year, Jeremy Corbyn’s party was regularly clocking 40 per cent approval ratings.
Then the prospect of a left-led Labour government seemed more real to our ruling class than it did even to the most optimistic on our side of the class war. And they acted accordingly.

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