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WW archive > Issue 1551 - 04 September 2025

Say it loud, say it proud

Why does Jeremy Corbyn refuse to say he is anti-Zionist? Jack Conrad urges Your Party to draw a clear red line. Israel is an expansionist project, a racist project, a genocidal project

Letters

Spart fusion; Spart legacy; YP inaccuracies; YP nature; YP grassroots; YP left reformist; YP Bennites; YP time waste; YP broad front

Don’t put off democracy

Max Shanly and Jack Conrad debated the pros and cons of sortition for the founding conference of Your Party. Should we seek to mirror the average? Or raise the average through electing delegates? Carla Roberts reports

Trying to capture the flag

Groups of rightwing men want to plaster their towns with the Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags. Should the left respond, asks Harley Filben, by inventing its own version of patriotism?

Artificial intelligence, human flourishing

AI is, we are told, an investment bubble waiting to burst, but what role, if any, should AI play in socialist society? And what role does it play in today’s world? Paul Demarty explores the complex issues

Global hard truths

Where does the Islamic Republic sit in the international pecking order? Will the alliance with China and Russia save the regime? Yassamine Mather investigates. Meanwhile, there are moves on the left

The road from Eton College

Seventy-five years after Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers continues his series by turning to his take on socialism, totalitarianism and the significance of Spain’s Civil War

Drill, Kemi, drill

Global warming could possibly switch off the Gulf Stream in our lifetime, making the UK a pretty miserable place to live. Yet the Tory leader wants us to ignore this and max out oil and gas production, writes Eddie Ford

Online Communist Forum, Sunday September 7 5pm

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