WW archive > Issue 1552 - 11 September 2025
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Notes on the war
After eight months of diplomatic efforts there has been no deal with Russia. So now, especially with Russian drones over Poland, it is back to an intensification of sanctions and phasing into World War III. Meanwhile, there is a tincture of good news: the social-imperialists are riven with divisions. Jack Conrad reports
Letters
End is nigh; Non-functional?; YP pro-sortition; YP anti-sortition; Elect YP delegates; YP Glasgow; YP and SPEW; YP Majority; CPGB clarification
We will not be silenced
Both the 30th national demonstration against the genocide in Gaza and the protest against the proscription of Palestine Action were peaceful and disciplined, writes Ian Spencer, yet the police arrested 890 people under terrorism legislation
Reject this dog’s dinner
Team Corbyn is postponing the launch conference. When it eventually happens, participants will be chosen by lot, things will be run under tight control and serious debate will not get a look-in, says Carla Roberts
Tailing the tailists
We are for the existence of factions where there are substantive differences. They can aid political clarity and the educational quality of debates. But what Carla Roberts proposes is that the CPGB should follow the standard far-left path. This is liquidationist, argues Mike Macnair
Nigel prepares for power
Reform’s so-called conference saw its big beasts play the hits and rile up the base. But Paul Demarty wonders how long they can keep their lead over the historically established Tory and Labour mainstream
The road from Eton College
Seventy-five years after Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers turns to his ideas on collectivism and socialism in the third of a series of articles
From freebies to stamp duty
The deputy leader was found guilty of violating the ministerial code, but the subsequent government reshuffle will fail in trying to out-compete Nigel Farage on anti-migrant rhetoric, writes Eddie Ford