WW archive > Issue 1506 - 12 September 2024
It will happen again
Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report spreads blame around lavishly, but downplays the responsibility of government policy and institutional corruption, argues Mike Macnair
Letters
Stalinist pedant; Hanging Lazare; IDF murder; Dirty war; Deep conspiracy
Ethos of punishment
Overcrowding is at an all-time high, showing yet again that prison does not work. Eddie Ford argues that we should help damaged people recover, not damage them further
Campaign continues to build
Restrictions on protests, attempts to intimidate activists and suspension of export licences testify to the fact that the establishment is under massive pressure from below, says Carla Roberts
Fiction: utopian and scientific
We all have our ways of weighing up the probabilities, of orienting our moral sense. In his intriguing talk to Communist University 2024, Paul Demarty examines the changing face of utopian literature and the role it, and science fiction, can play in Marxist politics
Matters past and present
Historical and theoretical issues are important, but they should not be turned into obstacles. Steve Bloom critically defends Fourth International orthodoxy and, despite that, calls for revolutionary unity in the concluding part of his response to Mike Macnair
Another useful innocent
Nuclear power should be supported because it is conducive to trade union organisation and because it is a way of dealing with all that weapons-grade plutonium. So argues Leszek Karlik, a member of Poland’s soft-left Razem party
Hip-hoppers with a cause
Billy Clark reviews Rich Peppiatt (director) Kneecap 2024, general release
No illusions in Histadrut
There is no possibility of a united Jewish-Arab working class politics at this historic juncture. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is using every and any excuse to keep the war in Gaza going, writes Yassamine Mather