Recently I was struck by an unclaimed article published on the Labour media.

This article started by stating: "The Malta Labour Party has an English name because it was born at the Royal Naval Dockyards Malta. At the same time the Partito Nazionalista was publishing its party paper called La Patria in Italian, with financial aid from Mussolini. Once a fascist always a fascist."

We have certainly all seen and heard new Labour leader Joseph Muscat promise a new start to the way Labour does politics.

We have certainly all seen and heard Dr Muscat claim that the Labour Party is going to open its doors to all; that it shall be a party that shall embrace people of all political creeds.

Yet his words were not even a month old when the Labour media chose to publish an article calling anyone with sympathies for the Nationalist Party a fascist. And for those who have observed the Maltese political scene for quite some time they would surely know that this insult being hurled at the PN by Labour is hardly new or innovative.

Does Labour honestly believe that by publishing articles debating Malta in the war days it is going to inspire anyone? Is this the new way forward? Is this the way the new Ġenerazzjoni Rebbieħa (winning generation) shall do politics? I certainly hope that these kinds of unfair attacks whose only intent is to spread the politics of hate will end once and for all.

Indeed, ending such practices would be beneficial not only to Labour itself but to Malta as a whole.