WW archive > Issue 979 - 26 September 2013
US decline: The shock and awe that wasn’t
Jim Creegan analyses the secular decline of the United States as the world hegemon and the failure of Barack Obamas Syria gambit
Letters
Get together; Put off; Get a life; Simples; Leave it out; Woman question; On the spot
SWP: Treating the symptoms
Attempting to reform the disputes procedure will not cure the SWP of its bureaucratic centralism. Meanwhile, splits have opened up in both the opposition and loyalist camps, writes Peter Manson
UKIP: Dangers of nationalism
Will Nigel Farage change the face of politics? Eddie Ford looks at the evidence
Safe spaces: Conway-Hudson school of censorship
Paul Demarty defends the idea of free speech on the left
Iran: Edging towards a settlement
US sanctions appear to have produced results for imperialism, writes Yassamine Mather
Religion: Painfully detailed origins
David Douglass reviews: John Pickard, 'Behind the myths: the foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam', AuthorHouseUK, 2013, pp492, £17.99
Die Linke: Principled opposition, not coalition poker
With Die Linke potentially emerging from last weekends elections as the biggest opposition party in parliament, big challenges lie ahead, argues Ben Lewis
Die Linke: Safe spaces task force
A word of warning from Maciej Zurowski for those in Left Unity who wish to emulate the German left party
Labour Party: Safe for capitalism
Calling Miliband Red Ed is a joke, writes Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists
Fighting Fund: Legal settlement
Robbie Rix provides and update and thanks our dedicated readership