WW archive > Issue 1443 - 18 May 2023
Lowering the stakes
Starmer’s promise to be ‘New Labour on steroids’ is not about being exciting, but boring. Eddie Ford offers some thoughts on mainstream politics
Letters
Better offer; Next election; Gold and paper; Baby’s bathwater; Personal analysis; London recruits
Witch-hunt grows
While some on the disoriented left will support ‘anyone but Labour’, writes Carla Roberts, Momentum and what remains of the official Labour left beg Sir Keir for unity
A hundred years of muddle
Marking the centenary of György Lukács’s hugely influential History and class consciousness, Mike Macnair spoke to an Online Communist Forum on May 14 about the book, the man and the politics
On its last legs
Mark Zuckerberg bet the farm on virtual worlds - and lost. Paul Demarty pours one out for the metaverse
Labourism on Mogadon
Though a Labour government is by no means certain, it would represent a major political turning point. Vernon Price reports on the aggregate of CPGB members and supporters
A tale of two liars
Despite the court judgment over defamation and sexual assault, he has come roaring back with a triumphant CNN ‘town hall’ performance. But, argues Daniel Lazare, the liberal bourgeois media is no more reliable than Trump’s fact-free claims
Triumph of rabid nationalism
Erdoğan looks set to win the second round and a third term as president. Esen Uslu probes the May 14 results and the expected outcome of May 28
Disenchanted with the west
Yassamine Mather gives her impressions of Turkey after 20 years of AKP rule and the evident failure of secularism from above
Online Communist Forum, Sunday May 21 5pm
A week in politics - political report from CPGB’s Provisional Central Committee