WW archive > Issue 1350 - 03 June 2021
Flying saucers over Washington
UFOs are back in the news again. Paul Demarty explores the cold war background and its exotic leftwing offshoots and variants
Letters
Turkish fascism; Complex; Israel liability; Boycott Puma; Alternative Forde; ‘Go-to’ newspaper; The Leninist; White Australia
Pogrom state made manifest
The far-right terror campaign against Palestinians sees the police arresting those who dare resist. Meanwhile global opposition to Israel grows apace. Tony Greenstein looks at the changing picture
Where is America going?
Has there been a social democratic turn following Joe Biden’s victory? Now, after all, his administration promises not only to tax the rich, but help the poor. Then there is China, the EU and the so-called third world. This is an edited version of the talk Hillel Ticktin gave to the May 27 Online Communist Forum
Centrality of class
Mike Macnair replies to Foppe de Haan and Catherine Liu on the analysis of history and meritocracy
Decline in profitability
Capitalism’s productivity failure can best be explained by Marxist theory, writes Michael Roberts
Story built on lies
David Douglass reviews 'Thatcher vs the miners: the battle for Britain', produced by Harry Bell and Brendan Hughes and broadcast on Channel 5
‘Anti-Semitism’ and culture wars
Derek James links the press attacks on the mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinians to a wider Tory offensive
Celebrate
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund