WW archive > Issue 1291 - 19 March 2020
Letters
Responsibility; Sceptical; Puzzled; Real reason; Racist!; Federal republic; Us tomorrow
Bankruptcy of neoliberalism
With countries everywhere on a ‘war footing’, writes Eddie Ford, the pandemic shows the necessity of global social control.
Responding to catastrophe
Paul Demarty looks at the strengths, and limits, of the left’s response to the coronavirus.
Coronavirus, oil and capitalist decline
Rex Dunn explains why he thinks they are all connected.
The Engels pause
As we approach the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels’ birth, Michael Roberts< recalls the contribution he made to Marxist political economy.
Those against unity
William Sarsfield continues his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
Socialist Fight’s split
Gerry Downing has dropped his support for Ian Donovan’s anti-Semitic theories about a pan-national Jewish-Zionist bourgeoisie. But, asks Tony Greenstein, what took him so long?
Death of a radical intellectual
Yassamine Mather celebrates a brave and outspoken critic of the Islamic regime.