WW archive > Issue 1502 - 01 August 2024
Delusions of techno-fix
Instead of dealing with the root causes of the climate crisis, there is a frantic search for technological solutions. However, argues Jack Conrad, there is a real danger of making what is already bad, badder still
Letters
Trans freedom; Welcome here; Communism?; Segregation
Communist University 2024
Saturday August 3 to Saturday August 10, central London
Donald the Führer?
Liberal hysteria about Trump abolishing presidential elections - even being a new Hitler - sees the BBC acting as mere propagandists for the US Democrats, writes Eddie Ford
Free speech, including for opponents
Labour has dumped Tory culture war ‘free speech’ legislation. Mike Macnair explains why any left promotion of speech control legitimises the imposition of speech controls by the right
In search of a synthesis
General strikes can be a tactic. But do they amount to a strategy? Steve Bloom calls for a positive resolution of the differences he has with Mike Macnair’s Revolutionary strategy
Trying to provoke a wider conflict
Assassinating a Hezbollah, then a Hamas leader, is yet another dangerous escalation. Meanwhile, notes Yassamine Mather, general Sir Roly Walker talks about an ‘axis of upheaval’ and being three years from war
Nothing to see here
Protests are erupting against overtourism, but the problem is unlikely to go away without fundamental changes to the political economy, argues Paul Demarty