WW archive > Issue 1404 - 21 July 2022
Toryland now decides
Rank-and-file Conservatives are more likely to vote for Liz Truss than the so-called ‘socialist’, Rishi Sunak - or so we are told. Eddie Ford investigates
Letters
Juggling with CO2; Outrage?; One country
Phew, what a scorcher
As temperatures hit record highs, James Harvey pours scorn on the Johnson government’s totally inadequate targets and the backtracking by the leadership candidates, not least Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak
Not going away
The dismal inability to defeat the pandemic points to a wider, systemic failure, argues James Linney
One foot in the grave
RMT’s withdrawal from Tusc was understandable, especially given the consistently dismal electoral performance. But, argues, Paul Demarty, this leaves SPEW, the mothership, in profound crisis too
An open letter to ACR
Tony Greenstein accuses Anti-Capitalist Resistance of giving succour to the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt in the Labour Party
Biden’s Middle East stumble
The president’s tour was an embarrassment for the US establishment from start to finish, writes Daniel Lazare
Fist bumps and pariahs
Russia seeks allies and arms, the US seeks allies and oil. Yassamine Mather reports on the diplomatic moves and the nuclear threats
Recovering global ascendancy
Sri Lanka’s debt crisis and political collapse could easily be repeated in other so-called third world countries. Mike Macnair argues that this is a knock-on effect of the Ukraine war and America’s determination to smash any tendency towards a multipolar world
Looking for a green light
We may be seeing an economic meltdown, says Esen Uslu, but there is no mass opposition movement and Erdoğan knows how to create domestic and foreign diversions
Keep up the pace
Linda Carr reports on the 2022 CPGB Summer Offensive
Do your bit
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund