WW archive > Issue 1547 - 17 July 2025
Beyond the stench of hypocrisy
Yvette Cooper presides over a Palestine Action ban, yet celebrates WSPU suffragettes. Meanwhile, the Labour government facilitates Israeli genocide in Gaza. Anne McShane points the finger at the real criminals
Letters
Elementary error; Popular front; Socialism now!; Distortion; Remember Boudin; Internationalism?
A Kafkaesque situation
Adding to a malicious prosecution for ‘terrorism’, the banks have joined in by closing accounts. Tony Greenstein describes the treatment meted out to those who dare defy the official narrative when it comes to Israel, anti-Semitism and genocide in Gaza
Rise of the barbarians
Israel’s apologists insist it defends ‘western civilisation’. But, argues Paul Demarty, the truth is rather more complex. After all, ‘civilisational’ thinking so often plays out as barbarism, Israel today being the prime example
Cauldron of conflict
Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the PKK to disband and disarm has seen well-publicised ceremonies. Meanwhile, regional developments point to war, rather than peace, writes Esen Uslu
Cold war economism
Members of TAS have fielded all sorts of arguments - some serious, most spurious. Mike Macnair cuts through the thicket to show why we need a minimum programme and a period of transition between capitalism and the highest phase of communism
Speech controls in Knesset
Israel boasts of being the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’, but even members of its own parliament are subject to intolerable harassment and attempts to silence them. Ken Syme urges solidarity with Ofer Cassif
139th Big Meeting
David Douglass reports on last Saturday’s Durham Miners Gala and the accompanying controversies over Reform, drink and international politics
Regime change don’t come easy
Iran’s Islamic Republic survived the 12-day war. Those, including some on the left, who thought it would collapse were wrong. But those on the left who simply tailed the regime were wrong too, argues Yassamine Mather