WW archive > Issue 1543 - 19 June 2025
Devouring the prey and drinking the blood of the slain
Netanyahu is bent on death, destruction and gore. Donald Trump gave the green light - that much is obvious. Now he has approved attack plans and is demanding ‘unconditional surrender’. Jack Conrad presents the communist alternative to capitalist barbarism and war
Letters
Democracy; Humpty Dumpty; Evidence?; New party; Insights; Omission; Apolitical!; Hamas support?
Cheap pageantry for birthday boy
‘No Kings’ vs ‘Big beautiful parade’. America is not in imminent danger of one-man dictatorship, but the authoritarianism of Trump’s regime is all too evident, argues Paul Demarty
Game, set and match
Ditching auto-Labourism results from strategic bankruptcy, not strategic reorientation. Eddie Ford turns his eyes onto the ‘official communists’ and their abrupt change of line
Peering into the darkness
Yassamine Mather questions the western nuclear bomb narrative, discounts the chances of managed regime change and insists that Israel’s war is not only against the regime. Millions of ordinary Iranians are in danger and must be defended
Zionism’s dual war aims
Netanyahu has been wanting to attack Iran for years. Now that the war with Iran has begun, he can finish the job in Gaza and the West Bank, warns Moshé Machover
Build working class resistance
Arms shipments to and from Israel are being blocked in many countries - an example that trade unions in Britain can be won to follow. There is no time to lose, says Ian Spencer