WW archive > Issue 1508 - 26 September 2024

Snouts in the trough

Endless freebies, generous donations, lavish hospitality, talk of a ‘nest of vipers’ in No10 - welcome to the new Labour government. Yet again we see how corruption is built into the political system, writes Eddie Ford

Letters

Auto Trot; Trans rant; Thumbs up?; Tired Stalinism; Fine writers

Another predator escapes justice

Class society puts people at the mercy of sadists like Mohamed al-Fayed, says Paul Demarty. However, a counter-culture of radical egalitarianism can combat the established culture of abuse

Fetishising revolutionary crisis

Clinging to the general strike, and to the idea of taking the tide at the flood, is at the core of present failures. Mike Macnair argues that Steve Bloom’s call for ‘synthesis’ is badly misconceived

Hidden divisions in Collective

After the ‘private meeting’ of the former Labour leader and a host of other former this and thats, Carla Roberts investigates the disorientation of the soft left and the probable results

Dark underbelly of the beast

It comes with huge promises and many dangers. Robert James explores how capital seeks to make use of artificial intelligence at the expense of labour

Third war begins

Despite supposedly working ‘tirelessly’ for peace, the US is doing nothing to hold Israel back. Yassamine Mather warns that the war on Lebanon could conceivably see Iran dragged into the conflict

Don’t mention fake anti-Semitism

Thousands marched in Liverpool to protest against Labour’s complicity with Israel, but, writes Ian Spencer, Lindsey German did not come out of things with flying colours

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