RICHARD BURGON MP speaks to Ben Chacko about the Labour right’s complicity in the Mandelson scandal and the need for a total break with Starmerism if the party is to defeat Reform
CAST your mind back to June 2018. You might remember lots of very friendly media reports of attempts to disrupt Labour Live, a big Labour rally in north London.
The press all said this was a popular youth rebellion by pro-Labour “anti-Brexit” campaigners. But the most prominent of these “rebels” are now working for pro-Brexit Tories.
The Daily Mirror, for example, carried a very friendly report about protesters who unfurled a “Stop Backing Brexit” banner among the crowd in the outdoor festival, just as Jeremy Corbyn took to the stage.
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
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets



