WW archive > Issue 1433 - 09 March 2023
Bakhmut is hell on earth
Both sides seem determined to send ever greater numbers into the human meat-grinder. The battle owes more to symbolism than strategic calculation, writes Eddie Ford
Letters
Sectionalism; New nadir; Confusion; Oppressed nation; DSA’s future; SWP and Zionism; Majority, not 3.5%
Now it’s Ukrainians
The Nord Stream story continues to grow ever more complex and strange. Daniel Lazare attempts to cut through the confusion
Tailism cannot deliver
By clearing away misconceptions and starting from our common class interests we can produce a workable approach. Mike Macnair concludes his series
Upholding the free speech principle
This statement has been issued in response to an exclusion by the Unofficial Weekly Worker Readers’ Group on the grounds of ‘transphobic’ speech
Stupidity and score-settling
What was Matt Hancock thinking about when he handed a vast trove of WhatsApp messages over to a notoriously mercenary journalist? Paul Demarty looks over the ‘lockdown files’
Made for each other
Kevin Bean looks beyond Tory faux outrage about Sir Keir appointing Sue Gray as chief-of-staff, and asks what it means for the prospects of the official left
A tale of two phrases
What did Marx mean by the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’? Marc Mulholland thinks the answer is closely bound up with ‘permanent revolution’
Weapon-grade talks
Tehran has adopted a conciliatory stance over uranium enrichment and severe punishment for those responsible for poisoning schoolgirls. Yassamine Mather reports
We can do it!
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund