WW archive > Issue 1454 - 03 August 2023
The truth is elsewhere
David Grusch - a whistleblower on secret government projects to recover and reverse-engineer extraterrestrial spacecraft - has testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security. Paul Demarty investigates the latest alien visitation to Washington
Letters
Rubbish; Class rule; Engage; Shape debate; What is Labour?; Transform; Get wallet out; Critique; Free Kagarlitsky; Poison
Rebranding as Transform
Yet another call for a new broad left party, yet another disappointment to come. Mike Macnair looks at the latest offering
Not a workers’ state
Did the Soviet Union remain a workers’ state from its heroic beginnings to its miserable end? Citing unchanged property relations is clearly unMarxist. What is decisive is production relations, argues Jack Conrad
Defending neutrality
What are so-called socialists doing upholding the foreign policy of their ‘own’ bourgeois state? Anne McShane upholds the principles of international socialism
Clean breaks and clear principles
Today’s left largely misunderstands and therefore misrepresents Clara Zetkin’s contribution to the politics of Marxism. Ben Lewis provides an excerpt from the introduction to a newly translated pamphlet
Clean air as a right
Following the Uxbridge by-election, there has been a huge row over the extension of London’s Ulez scheme. Both Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are standing up for the right to pollute. Eddie Ford stands up for the right to breathe clean, unpolluted air