WW archive > Issue 1342 - 08 April 2021
Letters
Blind alley; Strange argument; Gramsci’s comrade; Useful idiots?; Council housing
How to be gaslit
Anger is an insufficient response to the Sewell report, argues Paul Demarty. The left needs its own critique of liberal anti-racism
Not in the room
With the US still not directly involved in the negotiations, Yassamine Mather considers prospects for a revived nuclear deal
Tip of an iceberg
Bribery, fraud, nepotism and graft are all endemic to the bourgeois order, writes Derek James
Financial fictions
What Marx described as the ‘purest and most colossal form of gambling and swindling’ continues today, but on an altogether bigger scale Michael Roberts looks at some recent examples
Playing into imperialist hands
Foppe de Haan seems to have been taken in by the campaign to demonise China, argues Daniel Lazare
Royalty and the Reich
Eddie Ford reviews Channel 4's 'Queen Elizabeth and the spy in the palace', directed by Andy Webb
Nationalist dreams and nightmares
Mike Macnair reviews 'Workers and nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918' by JS Beneš and 'The Fiume crisis: life in the wake of the Habsburg empire' by DK Reill
After 47 years
The convictions of the Shrewsbury 24 have at last been quashed. There was a conspiracy - between the employers, the police and the Tory government. Bernard Mattson reports
Back on course?
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund