Issue 1532 - 03 April 2025
A sea of red and white
It was to be a test of strength. As it was, some 2.2 million turned out in Istanbul’s Maltepe Park. Esen Uslu reports on the latest and biggest anti-regime protest yet
Letters
SPEW and CPGB; Backward Arabs; Not clear; Stalin fanboy; Dermot’s Korea; State money
Escalation on the cards
After the exchange of letters, maximum pressure sanctions and the almost comical revelations of ‘Signalgate’, Yassamine Mather warns that Trump might soon give the green light for a punishment war against Iran
From SWP to Iranian asset
He calls for Iranian nukes and spouts anti-Semitic nonsense - but we should continue to fight for his right to free speech, says Carla Roberts
No sign of spring
Cuts, cuts and more cuts. Michael Roberts examines Labour’s continuation of the last government’s programme of austerity, with one notable exception - spending on war
Minimum demands are maximal
Let us not understate our radicalism or drive ourselves into sterile propagandism. Mike Macnair reports on the latest meeting of Forging Communist Unity
Labourism without Labour
Strikes and streets are not the be-all and end-all of class politics, agrees Jack Conrad. But, when it comes to ‘We Demand Change’ and standing in elections, the SWP has nothing that resembles a principled programme
They just stopped
Just Stop Oil is shutting up shop, and declaring victory - but the truth is that it has been thoroughly and predictably defeated by the state, argues Paul Demarty