WW archive > Issue 1463 - 19 October 2023
What you need to know about Hamas
Eddie Ford looks at the history and politics of what is a deeply reactionary organisation and how we could win the battle of ideas
Letters
Hamas empathy; Fascist crime; Iran link; Not an ally?; Grotesque; More bunk
Don’t mention apartheid
Sir Keir bans Labour banners at Palestine demonstrations, Jeremy Corbyn appeals to‘international law’, while the Campaign Group of Socialist MPs sticks to empty platitudes, reports Carla Roberts
The nature of the beast
Could the Soviet Union be described as a ‘workers’ state’ of any type? Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Hillel Ticktin, Yassamine Mather says that the only serious answer must be an emphatic ‘no’
Not tough on the causes
The prison system is in deep trouble. Mike Macnair suggests that there is more to it than bad government
Getting in touch
Jack Conrad takes up the offer made by Will McMahon and Nick Wrack about talks and joint work towards creating the basis for a mass Communist Party
Placing demands on Labour
Jack Bernard retells the hoary old tale of the inadequacies of the minimum-maximum programme of classical Marxism and the wonders that can be performed once equipped with transitional demands
Week in the hall of mirrors
Reporting of Israel’s assault on Gaza provides an object lesson in how the bourgeois media works, argues Paul Demarty