WW archive > Issue 1421 - 01 December 2022
Zero-Covid and its discontents
Beijing’s failure to roll out an effective vaccination programme has forced it to rely on lockdowns. However, there are leftwing Sinophiles who want to emulate the Xi regime, writes Eddie Ford
Letters
Weaponry; Holocaust denial; Genocide; No ‘dictatorship’; Next dog run?; Censors
Victories and weak points
Veteran Iranian socialist Shahab Borhan warns of the dangers of relying on spontaneity. The movement needs leadership, organisation and clear politics - article translated from Farsi by Yassamine Mather
Workers’ mass protests
Yassamine Mather reports on strikes and protests in Iran
After the election
Netanyahu’s coalition is a rag-bag of rightists, religious fanatics and rabble-rousers. But it is dangerous. A regional war and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is a real prospect, argues Moshé Machover
Armbands and alienation
With the competition now well under way, Paul Demarty examines the clash between soft-focus liberalism and Qatari feudal values
Contradictions of capital itself
Michael Roberts reviews Marx in the Anthropocene: towards the idea of degrowth communism by Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp300)
Self-determination is a right
Mike Macnair scrutinises the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on ‘Indyref2’ and looks at some typically inadequate left responses
Bosses want migrants
Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to the media will know that the boss class wants to increase migration in order to keep down pay levels and increase profits. Kevin Bean says, once again, the SWP gets it wrong
Short again
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund