THE small group of Open Britain protesters who raised their Stop Backing Brexit banner and chanted that slogan over the closing sentences of Jeremy Corbyn’s excellent Labour Live speech delighted Labour’s enemies.
From the Observer to the Sun, right-wing journalists revelled in this challenge to the Labour leader, proclaimed chaos in the party and regurgitated previous tales about a poor turnout and the party losing a fortune on the political-cultural festival.
Party chairman Ian Lavery’s rejoinder that the event will be repeated next year and be “twice as big” strikes the right spirit of defiance.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
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
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


