WW archive > Issue 1387 - 17 March 2022
Drawing clear lines on Ukraine
The war is not just about Russia and Ukraine. Muriel Green reports on the CPGB’s March 12 online members’ meeting
Letters
Hollow shell; Overriding hope; Against Nato; China’s ‘coach’; Spine
Third great depression
Not only are economic contradictions at play. There is the ecological crisis and, of course, war. Michael Roberts says that only socialism can save humanity
Westminster is main culprit
Anne McShane is appalled by the systemic institutional abuse that took place in the children’s homes of Northern Ireland over decades. But why has the UK government been let off the hook?
Triumphalism to pessimism
Does the Russia-Ukraine war epitomise a crisis of liberalism brought about by attacks from the populist right and the so-called anti-scientific left? Perhaps so - but not in the way Francis Fukuyama imagines, suggests Paul Demarty
First Iran, now Russia
Sanctions, whether ‘targeted’ or not, inevitably affect the mass of ordinary people, argues Yassamine Mather, while those at the top use them to tighten their grip on power
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part I)
Early, not late, capitalism generated imperialism, and capitalism without the state is impossible
Postage rise
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund