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

BACK in May 2015, we lost our second general election under a safe centrist leader putting forward a bland centrist manifesto.
The right of the party jumped eagerly on the defeat as an excuse to push Labour back to the “good old days” of Tony Blair when Britain backed illegal wars, PFI, privatisation and tuition fees.
An era when five million Labour voters became politically homeless and Scotland became essentially lost to us.

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


