Issue 1572 - 12 February 2026
Red-baiting by HQ
Despite the expulsions and unhinged attacks, Grassroots Left is on course to win a majority. Fearing defeat, the embattled Corbyn clique has gone into panic mode, says Carla Roberts
Letters
YP petition; YPS split; YPS nat chums; YP questions; Spart Cannonism; Petty bourgeois?; Marxist polemic; War danger; Cynic Mandelson
Spreading panic and confusion
Alex Callinicos is playing a cynical opportunist game when he compares the situation in Minneapolis with fascist terror in Italy. He wants to excuse the Together popular front, writes Eddie Ford
Not red on the inside
Corbyn’s faction cannot provide clear voting advice. Nor can SPEW. Zarah Sultana urges a Green vote. So does the social-imperialist ACR. The SWP calls for election deals with ‘principled leftwing Greens’. Jack Conrad calls for independent, working class politics
Et tu, Bezos?
The Amazon oligarch’s attacks on his own Washington Post amounts to a betrayal of the vocation of journalism. More of the same should be expected, reckons Paul Demarty
From stagnation to stagflation
She promises to cut taxes, increase spending on social security and the armed forces. Will the re-election of Sanae Takaichi encourage the corporate sector to invest and thereby boost Japan’s economy? Michael Roberts thinks not
Heading to dreamland
Separatism is taken as common sense by much of what passes for the left in Scotland nowadays. But, argues Peter Kennedy, socialism and nationalism contradict each other
Not nationalism but regionalism
Having rightly opposed the illusions in nationalism in Your Party Scotland, Peter Kennedy proposes his own recipe for the future
What’s up, doc?
Doctors are leaving in droves. It is not just that Australia, New Zealand and Canada look more attractive. There is, says James Linney, the push factor too. Labour is proving to be little different from the Tories