WW archive > Issue 1540 - 29 May 2025
Dark forces of extraction
Who are Scattered Spider and how do they do what they do? Paul Demarty investigates the recent spate of ransomware-attacks on top companies and the extreme fragility of global IT systems
Letters
Monarch threat; Trans pedagogue; Reform supporter; Reform conscious; Hope at last!
Patching up capitalism
Rose-tinted images of the past were interspersed with absurd recipes for the future - Michael Roberts reports on a day spent with the ‘eminent’ members of the Progressive Economy Forum
Questions of communism
What is the relationship between socialism and communism? Can socialism be built in a single country? Mike Macnair continues his exploration of the transition from capitalism
Not a bright idea
An unwillingness - or inability - to deal with the root causes of the climate crisis has resulted in a frantic search for technological fixes. However, argues Jack Conrad, that comes with all manner of dangers
No quick return
Billionaires, the rich, the upper sections of the middle classes, are disproportionately responsible for the degradation of the ecosystem. However, even if we put an end to capitalism tomorrow it would still take generations to restore the damage already done, argues Eddie Ford
Trans rights and open polemic
We are obliged to fight opportunism in all its varieties. To avoid that fight is a form of opportunism in itself. Ian Spencer reports on the May 25 aggregate
Kurdish entanglements
Laying down arms and dissolving the PKK has been hailed by some optimists as a ‘victory’. Yassamine Mather strongly disagrees and instead sees the defeat of the Kurdish people both in Turkey and Syria