ONLY a vote for the candidature of George Galloway in Rochdale will send a message of solidarity with Palestine amid the Gaza crisis, the Communist Party said on Tuesday night.

The party’s political committee discussed the “anti-democratic” and “farcical” by-election in the Lancashire town, where both Labour and the Greens have disowned their candidates.

Local momentum behind Mr Galloway reflects popular anger at Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its endorsement by the Labour Party, the Communists said.