Issue 1525 - 13 February 2025
Organise to stop genocide
Take Trump’s plans seriously, says Yassamine Mather. Not the ‘riviera’ stuff, but the clearing out of Palestinians from Gaza. That explains why there has been a welcome across the Zionist spectrum
Letters
Direct action; No transition; Marginal force; Broad alliance; Spart critic; Spart fan; Time to jump; Firewall
The American Sulla
Concessions won during the New Deal and the civil rights era are under attack. The old world order is being shredded. Edith Fischer, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation in Australia, looks at Trump 2.0 and his programme
Two meetings and many possibilities
No-one thinks we stand on the threshold of mass politics. But there is clearly an audience, especially amongst those wanting to go beyond the confessional sects. Carla Roberts reports
Additional letters
Thoughts on the Marxist Unity conference in Salford from Cat Rylance, Edmund Potts, Chris Strafford, Toby Mckenzie-Barnes, Daniel Brady, Bryce Bailey
Problems and progress
We are ready now to get down to programmatic specifics, but there are the ‘partyists’ who are not walking the walk ... yet. Jack Conrad reports
Politics of the generation game
How leftwing are the Zoomers? We are told that 47% want “the entire way our society is organised” to be “radically changed through revolution.” Paul Demarty examines generational dynamics
Flags on Mars
In his inauguration speech Donald Trump talked of extending America’s “manifest destiny” into space and planting the “Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars”. Jack Conrad says the left would be well advised not to fall for the hype