WW archive > Issue 1527 - 27 February 2025
Sober realities and future prospects
Mainstream politics continues to move to the right, and that has dragged the opportunist left ever further to the right too. However there are some positive developments. Paul Cooper reports
Letters
Toxic warrior; Stalinist minority; SPGB minority; Non-political?; War profiteer
CPGB perspectives for 2025
Programmatic starting point
Without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme, our party will have no chance of taking coherent form, guarding against opportunism or navigating the road to socialism, argues Jack Conrad
From powerhouse to powderkeg
AfD was the big winner but Die Linke got a real boost too. Carla Roberts does not rate the chances of the centre holding for much longer
Rebels without a clue
It’s all well and good being a dangerous, dissident rightist - but what if you win? Paul Demarty looks at the strange goings-on at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
Three Rs and no arts
Rather than being trained to be wage slaves, Eddie Ford argues that we should demand the right to develop ourselves as fully rounded human beings
Just a dash of insurrection
Pat Taylor reviews Daniel Fish, Elektra, Duke of York’s Theatre, London, until April 12
Great expectations
One of the greatest achievements of capitalism is rising average life expectancy in developed countries. This has begun to stall, not because we have reached an upper limit - well, not yet, suggests Ian Spencer