Issue 1531 - 28 March 2025
Zionism opens gates of hell
The Palestinian masses are threatened by genocide and ethnic cleansing, but Israeli settler-colonialism is riven with profound contradictions and can be beaten. Jack Conrad outlines the communist plan
Letters
Red-flag Zionism; Fascism undefined; Fascism looming; Die Linke votes; Who killed JFK?
Cancer of capitalism
James Linney looks at the shocking effects of social inequality on health and life expectancy … and Labour’s austerity cuts can only make things worse
Demise of NHS England
The decision to scrap NHS England might look like a bureaucratic reorganisation, writes Ian Spencer, but public provision is about to be butchered by yet more privatisation
Three presidential ploys
While Erdoğan is ever more unpopular, the opposition is divided and the left is weak and demoralised. Esen Uslu reports on the aftermath of Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest
Arms and the Greens
Seeking ‘electoral credibility’, Australia’s Green Party has adopted nationalist militarism, writes Marcus Strom. Meanwhile what passes for the left peddles a combination of economism, pacifism and liberalism
From welfare to warfare
We are returning to ‘military Keynesianism’, but will the ‘war dividend’ result in the end of stagnation and an economic boom? Michael Roberts doubts it
We happy few
The latest ‘world happiness rankings’ are out, with the usual suspects at the top and the bottom. Major change is unlikely so long as imperial power survives, suggests Paul Demarty