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WW archive > Issue 1216 - 17 August 2018

The politics of offence

Does it matter if Labour adopts all of the IHRA’s examples of ‘anti-Semitism’? Eddie Ford thinks so

Letters

Compromises; Better in; Immutable?

Rethinking economics

Attempts to broaden debate in university economics departments should be applauded, writes Michael Roberts

Nurtured by the state

What lies behind the current crisis? Esen Uslu looks at the peculiar form of capitalist development in Turkey

Past misdemeanours

'A party with socialists in it: a history of the Labour left' by Simon Hannah (Pluto Press 2018, pp288, £12.99)

Who is speaking and when

Final timetable for Communist University 2018, 18-25 August

Boris rolls the dice

Boris Johnson’s burqa article is not a gaffe, but a political gamble, argues Paul Demarty

The place of the Soviet Union in history

The USSR was neither a new type of capitalism nor a 'degenerate' socialism, but a freakish new social system, argues Jack Conrad

See you at CU

Why not come meet the team, asks Peter Manson

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