Our 2026 local election campaign in London

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Next Friday nominations open for candidates for the 7 May elections. All the papers have been filled in for two of our candidates; a third requires just one more signature. These can be submitted next week for an informal check and will be.

Yesterday a further 500 leaflets were distributed through letter boxes in the Clapham Common & Abbeville ward. This is one the LibDems expect to win and they have also been distributing leaflets there. They reckon they can manage the austerity imposed by the central government better than the Labourites who currently control the council.

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Activity continued last week with a stall outside Head Office in Clapham High Street and some leafletting in Stockwell West & Larkhall Ward on Sunday.

Also some fall-out from our presence at the anti-far right event the previous Saturday — an article in the Brixton Buzz on the elections and the Your Party with a photo of their candidate in which you can see our banner in the background.

Your Party candidate applications close Wednesday 25th March as Lambeth’s anti-Labour challengers race to get in place before 2026 election deadline

Those who read her election address at the end of the article will immediately be able to work out that the banner can’t be hers. She is standing as a localist parish pump independent.

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One of our candidates has commented on that article (which fails to mention that we are standing as well as Haljam’s group and the Your Party). Here it is in case it gets deleted:

“The Socialist Party does not seek to manage capitalism. We seek to abolish it.
Your Party promises to “fight cuts” and “stand up for the community.” Laudable. But their councillors will still balance Westminster’s books, collect business rates, and administer poverty. That is not socialism. That is reform. These are the same people who implemented cuts under Corbyn’s Labour. Now they call themselves “independent socialists.” They are not independent or socialist. They are a collection of rejected Labourites and Trotskyist entrists

We are standing three candidates in Lambeth not to win office, but to win socialists. We will use every platform to state this truth: socialism cannot be administered. It requires the revolutionary transformation of property relations not better management of the existing system

To those asking why we urge “FOR SOCIALISM” where we have no candidate: we reject false choices. A spoiled ballot is not invisible. It is a conscious refusal to legitimise competing managers of misery. It declares that no solution exists within this system

Your Party’s turmoil, exposed transphobia, resignations, factional warfare illustrates the reformist trap. Seek power within capitalism, and capitalism absorbs you. They learned nothing from their expulsion over antisemitism; now they repeat the pattern. We avoid these contradictions by stating plainly: councils cannot build socialism. Only a conscious, organised working class can

Vote for us if you understand this. Write “FOR SOCIALISM” if you reject the alternatives. But do not vote for better managers and expect revolution.

Anya Krycek candidate for the Socialist Party (GB)
For socialism, not reform!”

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