WW archive > Issue 1365 - 30 September 2021
Cargo-cult Blairism
Here we are supposed to have the intellectual background. What is revealed is a sad lack of intellectual background. Paul Demarty reviews Keir Starmer's 'The road ahead' (Fabian Ideas, 2021, pp32, £5.95)
Letters
My freedom; Stageism?; Pushing their way; Arguments
Sir Keir’s second eleven
Derek James says keeping heads down does not amount to a viable strategy
Focus group goop
Left treated with blatant contempt. Right relishes its witch-hunt triumph. Andrew Kirkland of Labour Party Marxists reports from the Brighton conference hall
Decline and decay
Mike Macnair shows that the post-1945 and post-1976 global ascendancy of US-style constitutionalism is at the core of the current liberal impasse
Addressing the central issues
Foppe de Haan returns to his differences with Mike Macnair on the question of the ‘professional-managerial class’
Setting the record straight
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour, the anti-Semitism crisis and the destroying of an MP' by Lee Garratt (Thinkwell Books, 2021, pp237, £10)
Around conference left
LPM comrades William Sarsfield, Andrew Byrne and Stan Keable report on fringe meetings, hubs and bulletins
£179 needed in 24 hours
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund