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    Elections 2026: The left’s future is local

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

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    Elections 2026: Think global, vote local

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

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    The return of the rotten borough?

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

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    Labour and the unions: a contentious alliance

    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

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    Your Party, our roots

    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

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    The World Transformed: giving history a push

    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

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    The Starmer Symptom – review

    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

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