WW archive > Issue 1534 - 18 April 2025
Life, death and resurrection
Easter Sunday is the most important date in the Christian calendar. After a short life packed full of miracles, their man-god died an agonising death on a Roman cross - only to rise, three days later, from Hades, born again. But, asks Jack Conrad, what about the real, flesh-and-blood Jesus?
Letters
Celebrate; No transition; Truth and justice; Mike’s coalition?; Stalinist democrat; Steel and coal
White coats, red blood
Mass killing in Gaza is but a prelude to ethnic cleansing. And, aided and abetted by the US and UK, Israeli forces are committing war crimes against Palestinian medical personnel with complete impunity, writes Ian Spencer
Breaking with playing dead
How to respond to Trump’s whirlwind of tariffs, chaos and oppression? Democrats have their ‘Hands Off’ protests. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez their ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour. Matt Strupp and Ben Lenz of the Marxist Unity Group want independent socialist organisation
Jaw-jaw flipside of war-war
US-Iran negotiations appear to have gone well. Leave aside Israel, there has been a positive response across the Middle East. Even the EU, China and Russia are happy. So, asks Yassamine Mather, what could possibly go wrong?
Socialism and star power
Owen Jones gets it wrong: the bourgeois media’s idea of leadership offers the left no shortcut to power, argues Paul Demarty. We need a party that is democratic, principled and mass