Issue 1575 - 05 March 2026
Defeat US-Israeli aggression, defend the peoples of Iran
Numerous bogus excuses have been concocted for an extraordinarily dangerous war. We reject them all. This is a nakedly imperialist war by America designed to weaken China and ensure the regional hegemony of Zionist Israel. Yassamine Mather calls for revolutionary defencism
Letters
War wish fulfilled; Trump vs Iran; Iran solidarity; Still possible; YP nats; All petty?; Navigation; Icemen cometh
Nur - a regional collective
Statement issued by Moshé Machover and Yassamine Mather
Labour on the ropes
After the Green victory in Gorton and Denton, things look grim for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government. But class strategy needs to be central, writes Paul Demarty
German takes on the general strike
Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad looks at how Belgium’s 1893 suffrage strike and Russia’s 1905 revolution impacted on German social democracy. By 1914 plans were well afoot
Sinking into the gutter
Labour ran a low-life campaign against the Greens in Gorton and Denton, saying that under them playgrounds would be ‘turned into crack dens’. Eddie Ford takes a rather more principled position
Not a serious response
Thoughtful, but sharp polemics are useful. Bashing jobs to score points, which ignore the actual arguments of the other side, are not. Vincent David of the Spartacist League dismisses Mike Macnair’s polemic
Definitely His Party now
With Gorton and Denton, Jeremy Corbyn jumped on the Green bandwagon. Where he might simply want an election deal, many will go the whole hog and take out membership. Carla Roberts reports on a very expensive CEC election campaign and the suffocating control-freakery
When Saturday comes
As club owners have ceded control over the terms and conditions under which elite players sell their labour-power, they have tightened their grip over the labour process. Peter Kennedy discerns an ongoing class struggle