WW archive > Issue 1361 - 02 September 2021
No longer a US problem
Undoubtedly the region’s powers see opportunities with the Americans gone, but mostly they see dangers. Yassamine Mather looks at the prospects now that the Taliban are back in Kabul
Letters
Unappealing cult; Long live SEP!; Taaffe was right; Get act together; Climate crisis; Hysteria; Amateurish; Roberts wrong; Confuced?; Defending Turkey
Arms and the duopoly
Afghanistan was a disastrous bipartisan war supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. Daniel Lazare lambasts the idea that the solution lies in a third bourgeois party untainted by the arms industry
Manufacturing consensus
We do not want to unite the whole of the anti-racist movement, if that means uniting all prepared to mouth anti-racist platitudes. In fact, writes Paul Demarty, so far as such ‘unity’ exists, our role is to destroy it
Constitutions ancient and modern
Bourgeois politicians, not least those in Britain and the US, make frankly risible claims about the constitutions of their respective countries. But, argues Mike Macnair in the first of two articles, Marxists are right to treat constitutions seriously
Tackling the key issues
From free speech to climate change. Derek James reports on this year’s Summer Communist University
Continue the fight
As Keir Starmer’s regime prepares a hostile environment for socialists at Labour’s annual conference, Labour Against the Witchhunt resolves to step up its campaign. Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists reports on the August 28 online membership meeting
Up and running
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund