WW archive > Issue 1474 - 18 January 2024
Communists and holy war
While the past should not and cannot be mapped onto the present, Jack Conrad argues that the approach taken by Comintern to the Muslim east contains many useful lessons - if, that is, we retain our critical faculties
Letters
Factions; Triviality; Hamas; Come clean; Focus on need
One-trick pony
High end computer chips are now being made elsewhere. Michael Roberts looks at the economic and political background to last weekend’s elections in Taiwan
Stopping Trump juggernaut
Sleepy Joe is driving voters into Republican arms. The more he tries to stop Trump, the stronger Trump gets, argues Daniel Lazare
Police, soldiers and gangs
Once relatively stable, Ecuador has quickly become a failed state, highlighting the criminal failure of the insane ‘war on drugs’, writes Eddie Ford
Justice at a huge price
The Horizon scandal was about faulty software, individual gullibility and corporate indifference, writes Mike Macnair. But the fundamental problem dates back to the 1660s and the selling of legal services to the highest bidder
Is Hamas anti-Semitic?
October 7 was an attack directed against Israelis - not because they were Jews, but because they were occupiers. Tony Greenstein accuses Dan Lazare of being an apologist for Zionism
A drop in the ocean
Houthis are no mere proxies of Iran, argues Yassamine Mather. They have their own political goals and agenda
Grim fate awaits him
Julian Assange’s imminent extradition draws a line under the idea of the internet as an untameable new frontier, argues Paul Demarty
Online communist forum
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