WW archive > Issue 1348 - 20 May 2021
Letters
No evidence; Mixed economy; Class ‘defined’; Intangible
Protest halts deportation
Alastair Thomas celebrates the thwarting of the home office’s Immigration Enforcement goons in Glasgow
Assault on democracy
Trump’s cult of the personality is taking on Bonapartist traits. Rather than a fellow member, he plainly sees himself as a monarch, lording over the GOP while in temporary exile. Daniel Lazare reports
Marking 50 years
Founded by expelled PCI members, Il Manifesto has successfully outlived its rivals. Toby Abse praises the consistent anti-capitalism and pans the Maoist absurdities
Theatre of revolution
While the March on Rome was significant, writes David Broder, the active collaboration of the Italian ruling class with the fascists was central
Ulster unionism in crisis
Brexit, together with shifts in both population and political allegiances, means that something now has to give, reckons Derek James
Wages of tailism
Unlike others on the left, the SWP at least tries to draw lessons from the failure of Spain’s Podemos. The problem is, Paul Demarty explains, the lessons it draws are hopelessly wrong
Appeals of class society
We need to understand what makes the exploited actually defend the system that oppresses them, argues Foppe de Haan
Signs of decay
Yassamine Mather looks at Iran’s presidential hopefuls and what passes for their rival programmes
Printing soon
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund