
Candidates and campaigners debate alternative local offers to Labour and Reform, through future alliances and those already underway

Ahead of 7 May polling day, candidates and canvassers tell RPM what the left can achieve in local and devolved government

Andy Brain reports on English councils’ accountability problem: candidates in ‘uncontested seats’ being elected into power – without a vote being cast

David Howell traces union-Labour Party relations from the aftermath of the general strike, through shaping the 1945 government, tensions under Harold Wilson to Thatcher-era marginalisation

Away from the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action

TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats, write Andrea Gilbert, Lydia Phillips and Isaac Rose

As anger and disillusionment with Labour increase, a new collection from Mark Perryman asks some bold and urgent questions about dialogue on the left, writes Kevin Davey





