WW archive > Issue 1397 - 26 May 2022
NOTE FROM EDITOR
Unfortunately, we were unable to publish the Weekly Worker on June 2. The Platinum Jubilee meant that both our printers and Royal Mail were out of action....
Letters
Remember climate; Pax Americana; Perhaps aliens?; Double fencing; Keep the name
Jumping through the hoops
As RMT members vote overwhelmingly for industrial action, the Tories are threatening to enact yet more anti-trade union laws. Eddie Ford urges defiance
Talking loud, saying nothing
Paul Demarty checks in on the congress of the Socialist Party in England and Wales - a decision-making body apparently without decisions to make
Stampeded by Russia’s attack
Public and parliamentary opinion have undergone a panicked swing away from non-alignment. Jan Nyström reports on the attempt to forge a principled opposition to Nato membership
Notes on the war
Both the social-imperialists and the pro-Kremlin left fail to put the working class at the centre of their perspectives and look instead to either Nato or the Putin regime as an agent of social progress. Jack Conrad calls for rebellion against those who betray the elementary principles of socialism
All about press freedom
The case of Julian Assange represents the most dangerous and concerted attack on journalism and freedom of the press in over a century, says Tony Greenstein
Designed to shorten lives
Cars, drugs and now the Uvalde school massacre, Daniel Lazare looks at the American way of death
Unique on the left
Dave Vincent reviews 'David John Douglass, anarchist-syndicalist coalminer: reviews and articles appearing in the Weekly Worker' (pp253, £12)
Running out of luck
The new Labor government is committed, like its predecessor, to the US alliance and disengaging with China. Meanwhile, real wages fall, inflation increases and climate change brings floods, fires and droughts. Michael Roberts looks at a country facing troubled times
Touching distance
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund