WW archive > Issue 1479 - 22 February 2024
Through the looking glass
Scott Evans spotlights Sir Keir’s desperate balancing act between a pro-Palestine electorate, wobbly MPs and the shifting messages coming from the White House … and the surreal goings on in the Commons
Letters
Left opposition; New Zoom series; Factions; Revolution?; Not Galloway; No debate; Same clowns; Mass party?; Dogmatic
Unseating the Right Hon Sir Keir
In a bit of political theatre, two campaigns have selected Andrew Feinstein to contest Keir Starmer’s seat in the forthcoming general election. Carla Roberts reports
Notes on the war
After two years of battlefield carnage there is stalemate. Jack Conrad calls for the left to break from social-pacifism and centrism
Navalny’s sticky end
Paul Demarty looks at the death of a persistent critic and irritant to Vladimir Putin and the FSB regime ... and a hero of the west, who showed undoubted courage in the face of cruel persecution
Attacks at every level
Trump faces legal battles in local, state and federal courts. But Democratic attempts to derail his presidential bid may well backfire, reckons Daniel Lazare
Deal with the arguments
The left needs to stop tailing spontaneity and start thinking strategically. Mike Macnair takes issue with Steve Bloom’s canonisation of Luxemburg and criticisms of democratic republicanism
Sentiments have steadily shifted
There is a massive gulf over Gaza between the servile political class and the majority of the British population, writes Eddie Ford