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Tomorrow is EU Election Day. It’s an election few want and nobody needs. But it took our Communist Party — almost alone on the left — to point this out.
A month ago, our party’s political committee discussed how best to implement the executive committee’s decision to call for a boycott. This was the first time we have made such a call in our 99-year history. We didn’t do it lightly.
The election was forced on us by unelected EU commissioners as the price for extending a withdrawal date that brought confusion and anger in working-class communities.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
This by-election could plausibly see both Reform and Labour defeated — but splitting the left insurgent vote would put that at risk, argues CHRIS WILLIAMSON
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
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