WW archive > Issue 1472 - 04 January 2024
CPGB Provisional Central Committee: Statement on Israel-Gaza war
Letters
Zionist lies; Factional answers; Two questions; Inventing myths; United defence
No print edition this week
Joining the living dead
Carla Roberts wishes she was surprised that Jon Lansman has joined the Jewish Labour Movement
More ballot games
Another year, another legal attempt to stymie Donald Trump. Daniel Lazare detects echoes of 1860
Haley’s telling blunder
Many southerners happily fly the stars and bars, but they prefer to talk of state rights, not black slavery. Paul Demarty looks at Donald Trump’s nearest Republican rival
Not a religious war
Daniel Lazare lumps Hamas together with the Zionists, argues Tony Greenstein. But socialists should unconditionally support the oppressed
Threats mask timid actions
Yassamine Mather says that neither the US nor Iran want an all-out war, but after the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut and the bomb attacks on Qasem Soleimani’s admirers, tensions are reaching breaking-point
Nothing positive to be gained
On the need for a new mass socialist/communist party: a reply to the CPGB-PCC from Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view
Record-breaking in the wrong way
Storms, floods, drought and fire on an almost biblical scale presage social breakdown. It is socialism or barbarism, says Eddie Ford