WW archive > Issue 1405 - 28 July 2022
General strike call
Leadership favourite Liz Truss has promised to impose ‘minimum service levels’ on striking workers just 30 days after coming into office. In response, Mick Lynch says he will campaign for the TUC to call a general strike. Eddie Ford comments
Letters
Act or quit; Insults; Trapped; Undemocratic; United front; Soviets and Gerry
Gift that keeps on giving
The Tories can neither abandon Brexit nor make it work. That means we can only expect more chaos, argues Paul Demarty
Ideologue of the revolution
He drew on secular thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre and Karl Marx, Catholic liberation theology and the symbolism and language of Shi’ite Islam. Lydia Apolinar explores the ideas and influence of Ali Shariati
Very much in control
The US may be in decline, writes Moshé Machover, but the left is doing little or nothing in the way of strategic thinking
Coup and collapse
Daniel Lazare looks at the damning made-for-TV congressional hearings on Trump’s coup attempt - and their ultimate futility
Energy as a weapon
Michael Roberts looks at the fallout from the Ukraine war and how plans for an oil cap could trigger a deep recession
No support for either side
War crimes investigations and trials are not just a continuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict by other, legal, means. There is, Yassamine Mather shows, a grisly connection with the Middle East
Indy2, strikes and boycotts
Why are the ‘official communists’ in such a muddle over the SNP’s bid to hold a legal referendum on independence? James Harvey critiques the YCL’s gensec
Ticking Over
Linda Carr reports on the 2022 CPGB Summer Offensive
On the cards
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund