Next month’s by-election in Glenrothes will be a big test for New Labour. George Connolly went to the constituency to ask residents for their views.

Brown’s shocking defeat in the traditional Labour stronghold of Glasgow East has effectively killed him off. Our energies must now turn, argues Richard Seymour, to building a serious grassroots Left alternative to the sinking Labour ship.

As the residents of Glasgow East go to the polls today, Niall Green examines the dire poverty and despair that forms the backdrop to the election.

“I am against the war in Iraq, I don’t like big business and I think David Davis is mobilising right-wing policies in Britain”. So says Angela Morkos, a resident of David Davis’s former constituency who plans to vote for the Socialist Equity Party at the forthcoming by-election. Reporters from the World Socialist Website interviewed Angela and other local people to gauge the mood of the electorate before polling day.