'DON'T VOTE FOR THE SHADOW CABINET', URGES CP

Britain's Communist Party is calling on all socialists and progressive-minded people not to vote for any member of Labour's Shadow Cabinet at the forthcoming election.

  'This the clearest, most consistent way to show our opposition to Labour's sharp turn to the right under Keir Starmer's direction, for which all Shadow Cabinet members must bear collective responsibility', CP general secretary Robert Griffiths declared following a meeting of his party's Political Committee on Tuesday evening (May 28). 

  Pointing to Starmer's broken pledges on green investment, public ownership, social benefits, public schools, tuition fees, arms exports and taxing the rich and big business, Mr Griffiths said it came as no surprise that millions of working-class electors have not been "rushing to the polls" in recent local council and parliamentary elections despite mass opposition to the Tory government.

  "Many see no big difference between Labour and Tory policies", he said, while making clear the Communist Party's preference for a Labour victory on July 4.

  "A united front based on the trades unions and popular campaigning to challenge a pro-big business Labour government, would be a more advanced political situation than a defeated labour movement having to face a Tory regime that totters on the edge of insanity", he remarked.

  Commenting on Prime Minister Sunak's scheme to introduce a form of National Service for all 18-year olds, CP election convenor Andy Chaffer said that "if the Tories have £2.5 billion to spare, they could use it instead to reopen the youth centres and services shut down across Britain by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition's austerity drive following the 2010 General Election".