WW archive > Issue 1541 - 05 June 2025
Capitalism as a star fort
The system might be in decline, but it has a whole complex of defence works available to it. Mike Macnair completes his three-part series on the transition from capitalism to communism
Letters
Trans anger; Trans identity; Trans error; Reform outrage
Putting things on hold
Talking About Socialism has written this letter to the CPGB and the pro-talks faction of Prometheus, suspending our talks
Collaboration, yes; opportunism, no
Programme is central. We have taken many years fashioning, discussing and fine-tuning. It would be the crassest opportunism to abandon what we have achieved. Jack Conrad replies for the CPGB
Philosophy in the ordinary world
Alasdair MacIntyre died on May 21 2025. Though journeying from Calvinism to Marxism and then, finally, to Catholicism, he retained a gut commitment to the working class. Paul Demarty offers a critical appreciation of an extraordinary mind that opened so many doors
Defeat or victory?
Erdoğan is not interested in democracy or Kurdish national rights. Arguably, the PKK’s guerrilla war served his interests. Esen Uslu puts the case for class politics and exploiting legal opportunities. However, if you talk of ‘defeat’, must you support the resumption of armed struggle?
Food used as bait
Israel is starving the Gazan population to ready them for mass expulsion, warns Eddie Ford. After that it will be the West Bank and then the Arab-Palestinian population in ‘Israel proper’
Soviet strategy and class collaboration
Having declared capitalist collapse imminent, there was a 180-degree about turn. Yassamine Mather looks at the origins and defeats resulting from the popular front
Have the ‘localists’ won?
Jeremy Corbyn’s project puts on display an embarrassing apolitical hotchpotch of moralistic waffle, but not everyone has given up on the fight for a ‘proper party’. Carla Roberts reports