WW archive > Issue 1544 - 26 June 2025
Carnival of the oppressed
Midsummer day’s 350,000-strong Palestine demonstration in London was a defiant, disciplined protest against genocide, war and an increasingly repressive British state, writes Ian Spencer
Letters
Broad frontism; Embargo; Ditch Labour; Fantasy lunch; SPGB reforms; MacIntyre claims; Well is dry; Buy my book
Privileged information leaks
Everything is happening in secret. But secrets have a habit of being told. Meanwhile, yet another deadline has come and gone, reports Carla Roberts
Completely different foundations
As with now, the economic significance and politics of the middle classes was being hotly debated among socialists back in the 1890s. Some claimed their growth as disproving Marxism. Others could only see proletarianisation. Ben Lewis has translated a highly pertinent passage from Karl Kautsky’s Anti-Bernstein (1899), which offers still valuable insights. Mike Macnair provides the introduction
Scientists warn of peril
Heat can be a bigger killer than floods and storms. Within three years we could pass the symbolic 1.5°C limit, but we do not need technological fixes that might well make things worse, writes Eddie Ford
Order of the day
There is much common ground on the revolutionary left in Turkey when it comes to Israel’s attack on Iran. However, Esen Uslu shows that there are distinguishing fault lines too
War, genocide and ceasefire
Iranian left - within the country and without - must facilitate, encourage and take full advantage of any loosening of the ayatollah’s grip, through an immediate programme designed to defend the lives and interests of the broad mass of the population. A statement of the CPGB Provisional Central Committee
Besieged, battered and badly led
Even before the bombing, Iran was an economic wreck. Years of sanctions and endemic corruption have produced poverty for millions. Michael Roberts describes a failed state
Nowhere else to go
Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran was a predictable betrayal of his pitch to voters. But, asks Paul Demarty, who else are they to vote for? Especially when it comes to elections, memories are short