WW archive > Issue 1168 - 31 August 2017
Our lady of the tabloids
Twenty years on, Britain is still not over the death of Diana Spencer. Paul Demarty investigates the cult of the ‘people’s princess’
Letters
Opportunism; Enlightened ; Compass; Social being; Safe passage; Fast and furious
Understanding the ‘populist moment’
Populism has been used as a catch-all definition covering everyone from Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to Evo Morales and Rodrigo Duterte. But what is populism and what is its historical background? Kevin Bean gives some answers
Pisapia’s deadly embrace
How productive will Italy’s latest ‘left unity’ project turn out to be? Toby Abse investigates
Lenin glosses the April theses
In this fifth part of his series, Lars T Lih focuses on Lenin’s April 21 1917 Pravda article, ‘A basic question’
Lenin refutes a misreading of the April theses
Reproducing a historic polemic
Giving 1917 real meaning
Chris Gray reviews: China Miéville, October: the story of the Russian Revolution, Verso, 2017, pp369, £18.99
Not a religious approach
Our aim is to have serious debate, Peter Manson reports, and this year’s CU certainly came up to the mark in terms of the quality of the speakers
Stepping up to the plate
Peter Manson reports on Communist University 2017 and the end of the Summer Offensive