WW archive > Issue 1142 - 16 February 2017
It ain’t necessarily so
Who fears ‘fake news’ - and what is their own relation to the truth? Paul Demarty pulls apart the current hysteria
Letters
Trump visit; Halfway house; Socialist Brexit; Class enemy; Dreadful day; Pre-empted
New times, new tasks
Statement from Hands Off the People of Iran
Tails you lose, heads you lose
Whether over Brexit or Labour strategy, writes Eddie Ford, Corbyn is determined to appease the centre and the right
Slow moving car crash
Support for article 50 is a failure of both principle and strategy, writes Tony Greenstein
Put not your trust in judges
The fall of Michael Flynn involved not litigation, but threats of prosecution. But, if Trump is in fact brought down by the same scandal, it will not be leftwing litigation that does it, but the creation of a cross-party and inter-bureaucratic political coalition. And the result, if so, argues Howe Cheatem, will be president Pence and a new and rapid war drive
A Turn in World Politics
‘1917: the view from the streets’ - leaflets of the Russian Revolution, No4
Flee, die or receive baptism?
Rex Dunn reviews: Mihail Sebastian, 'For two thousand years', Penguin Modern Classics, 2016, pp231, £9.99
Trump ups the ante
The threat of military action against Iran is once more very much on the agenda, writes Yassamine Mather
Extra boost urgently needed
Robbie Rix needs you to make the shortest month a big success