WW archive > Issue 1357 - 22 July 2021
Sir Keir’s road to Brighton
Organisations can be banned, but powerful ideas still live and flourish. Derek James of Labour Party Marxists reports on the growing opposition to the latest stage of the witch-hunt
Letters
Football racism; Right to decide; Stalinist; Sour plums
In spite of everything
Left illusions in cheap populist rhetoric risk splitting the vote and handing victory to the right. Paul Demarty argues in favour of a clear-sighted and long-term strategy
Modernisation with typical characteristics
Is the People’s Republic of China really such an odd social formation? Mike Belbin finds the answer in history
Pandemic to pingdemic
Boris Johnson’s ‘Freedom Day’ did not exactly go as planned. In fact it was a fiasco. Despite that, Eddie Ford warns of an early general election
Into the light of hope
Biggest oil and gas strike. A rebellion against neoliberalism. Economic and political demands combine. Ruben Markarian, of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran, sees a historic turning point. This article is based on his July 18 Online Communist Forum talk
Leopard and its spots
With or without monopolies, the basis of capitalist exploitation remains the same, argues Michael Roberts
Great pension robbery
Miners have been deprived of part of their ‘deferred wages’. David John Douglass exposes the actions of successive governments
Going rate
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund