WW archive > Issue 1156 - 25 May 2017
The Manchester bombing
Statement from the PCC of the CPGB
Letters
All must go; More Zen; For real?; Pay off; No Muslim, bruv; Hilarious; History boys; Our EU?; Italia
Pensioners sidelined by atrocity
The Tory manifesto’s attacks on the elderly is no longer in the headlines - but Paul Demarty wonders why such risks were taken
Fudging the Labour Party
Carla Roberts and William Sarsfield of Labour Party Marxists spoke to Hudson Leigh, a leftwing delegate to the 2017 annual conference of the Public and Commercial Services union in Brighton
Sectarianism and secession
Programmatically weak politics only helped reinforce the CPGB’s ultimate sectarianism after its re-entry into the Labour Party in the late 1930s, writes Lawrence Parker
The music inside ourselves
Max Grierson reviews: Julian Barnes, 'The noise of time' Vintage, 2016, pp192, £7.99
Wait until 2018
It seems quite possible that Donald Trump will not survive his full term, writes Peter Manson. But don’t expect any formal moves towards impeachment just yet
Will Macron have a majority?
In June there will be a general election in France as well as the UK. René Gimpel looks at the main contenders
Still an imperialist target
Yassamine Mather analyses the significance of Hassan Rouhani’s re-election
Best on the left
Robbie Rix welcomes some big hitters and takes some praise