WW archive > Issue 1549 - 21 August 2025
Make Your Party now!
The mass movement in solidarity with Palestine is taking party form. Now what matters, says Jack Conrad, is getting the structures, above all the politics, right. Reject Labourism, reject federalism
Letters
Marxist unity; Spart unity; Stainless banner; SPGB confusion; SPGB time; Your Party joiner
Whose party is it anyway?
While Your Party remains in gestation, it can be all things to all people. But sooner or later lines will have to be drawn. Paul Demarty argues for open contestation between programmes, not individuals
Taking off … despite the leadership
Contrary to what Zarah Sultana thinks, her OMOV proposals would make Your Party less, not more, democratic than even today’s Labour Party, warns Carla Roberts. Plus: the first reports from branches
Class composition in a snapshot
We must get beyond abstract dogmas and mere impressionism. Not that official statistics give us easy answers. In his opening article Mike Macnair outlines the different classes in the 2020s
Fighting spirit renewed
This year was dominated by the themes of communist unity and the likely opportunities following the launch of Corbyn’s Your Party. Ian Spencer reports
Abomination of imperialist war
Séamus Ó Muadaigh reviews Mark O’Connor (director) Amongst the wolves (currently streaming on Prime Video)
An opposition that serves
Iran’s Reform Front ignores the ongoing war and genocide in Gaza, the threats posed by the US and Israel and effectively buys into western propaganda over the nuclear question, argues Yassamine Mather