WW archive > Issue 1439 - 20 April 2023
Their army and ours
Marxists prefer peace to war, but, as Jack Conrad explains, with us that must go hand-in-hand with making propaganda for the right to bear arms and the establishment of a popular militia
Letters
Anathema; Israeli SA; Christian purge; Woman question; Deaf ears; Regression; Rehabilitation; Poland
Cheap shots, great and small
Controversy over Starmer’s attack ads shows up the increasing emptiness of bourgeois political debate, argues Paul Demarty
Strategic dead-end
Humza Yousaf’s leadership is in total disarray; Labour smells blood and is expecting to make big gains. Scott Evans believes we should respond with a culture of openness and pre-emptive socialism
All power to the 3.5%?
The SWP cheers on those committed to minority, isolated actions such as blowing up pipelines, not those who stress programme, class politics and using elections to win majority support, writes Eddie Ford
History and anti-history
Still like an academic conference, but at least there is more politics today. Mike Macnair reports from Chicago and the 2023 convention of the Platypus Affiliated Society
Reinforcing state control
There is a close link between a hegemon’s diminishing role and that of the media, argues Daniel Lazare
Back to the old sod
Carefully scripted and tightly choreographed, Biden’s Irish visit was really about November 2024. Kevin Bean looks at the electoral politics of ‘Oirishness’
Online Communist Forum
Jack Conrad: 'Climate catastrophe and how to prevent it'
Ex-shah’s nonentity son
Twenty years after the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq, this catastrophe is still a potent factor in the politics of Iran. And yet, as Yassamine Mather reports, there are still those exiles who hanker after a repeat