WW archive > Issue 1375 - 09 December 2021
Danger of barbarism
Invisible to the eye, viruses and bacteria make up a good percentage of the global biomass. They also shape history. HIV/STD specialist and Marxist Mohsen Shahmanesh discusses microbes and human society. This article is based on his talk to the November 28 Online Communist Forum
Letters
Misleading; Desperate stuff; Temporary?; China; ANC capitalism; John Maclean; Democracy; Labour process; Prescient
Beware of Nazi obsession
We must oppose the fascist right, writes Eddie Ford. But we should also oppose state bans on organisations and ‘dangerous’ books
Taking a pass on Israel
Daniel Lazare denounces the DSA’s unprincipled stand on congressman Jamaal Bowman and controversially questions the whole BDS movement
Shuffling further to right
Derek James assesses Sir Keir’s new shadow cabinet, the cowardice of the official left and the danger of both Corbyn and McDonnell being expelled
Not a liquidation?
Abandoning any pretence of class politics, Tony Greenstein defends what he calls the ‘merger’ of LAW and LIEN and advocates yet another ‘transitional’ halfway-house broad front
Contradictions and ambiguities
Market socialism, capitalism with Chinese characteristics, or a workers’ state? Michael Roberts takes issue with three recent books
Sabotage, scientists, sanctions
Soheil Behrang reports that amid the P5+1 negotiations in Vienna, Mossad is playing a dangerous game
Bit of a spurt
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund