WW archive > Issue 1353 - 24 June 2021
Blue and red walls crack
Should the left refuse to call for a Labour vote because of crap politics and crap candidates? Eddie Ford calls for strategic thinking, not knee-jerk reactions
Letters
Anti-Semitism?; Moving right; Overkill; Dictatorship; UFOs guff
Dim end of the wedge
The buffoonery of GB News’s first weeks should not be confused with failure, warns Paul Demarty
No-platforming fraud
Government proposals for legislation to ‘protect free speech’ in universities are part of the ongoing culture wars designed to please the rightwing press, argues Mike Macnair. This article is adapted from his June 20 Online Communist Forum talk
Build on solid foundations
Socialists need a programme, but not just any old programme. Donald Parkinson of Cosmonaut magazine and the Marxist Unity Slate in the Democratic Socialists of America sets out the history and great advantages of the minimum-maximum programme
Same old, same old
The election of Ebrahim Raisi hardly signals a major change, writes Yassamine Mather. Yet, while the left remains confused, opposition to the regime is palpable
Death of an activist
The campaign to outlaw the Kurdish opposition involves all sorts of dirty tricks. Esen Uslu looks behind the most recent killing
So runs the tide
Will the DUP be able to restore its former dominance under its new leader? Derek James is doubtful
You can do it!
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund