WW archive > Issue 1354 - 01 July 2021
George’s modest flutter
The return of the British left’s most eccentric celebrity has provided an interesting twist - but can he succeed? Paul Demarty looks at the Batley and Spen by-election
Letters
Manipulation; Infuriating; Not revolutionary; Incoherent; Welcome, HS2; So be it; Visionary; Strange logic; Not so stupid
A meeting of two halves
We are a campaign for free speech: good. But we are not a Labour campaign: bad. Derek James of Labour Party Marxists reports
Desperately clinging on
The Putin-Biden summit illustrates one thing above all: US hypocrisy. Daniel Lazare looks at election interference and the debacle in Afghanistan
What Mao began
Now celebrating its centenary, the Communist Party of China presides over a strange hybrid social formation. Eddie Ford looks at its evolution
Workers unite in huge protest
Yassamine Mather welcomes the post-presidential election upsurge in strikes
Threat of a new slump
There has been much exaggerated talk of the dangers of inflation. But, if interest rates rise, Michael Roberts sees the zombie corporations getting into real trouble
Discussion not permitted
Supposedly, debating a motion on ending the illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and imposing sanctions on Israel would make Jews in the Labour Party feel ‘unsafe and unwelcome’. Tony Greenstein reports on Labour's silencers
A troublesome princess
On July 1, the estranged princes, William and Harry Windsor, together with members of the Spencer family, will gather in the grounds of Kensington Palace to unveil a statue in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, by Ian Rank-Broadley. Commissioned in 2017 to mark the 20th anniversary of her death on August 31 1997, the unveiling coincides with what would have been her 60th birthday. Here we republish what Jack Conrad wrote for this paper on September 4 1997
You did it!
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund