WW archive > Issue 1553 - 18 September 2025
No popular front with Greens
Though the Green Party has no ‘socialist ideology’, SPEW calls for it to affiliate to Your Party. The SWP calls for election deals and voting for ‘principled leftwing Greens’. Jack Conrad calls for independent, class politics
Letters
Robinson danger; Robinson win; Productive YP; Basic YP tasks; YP democracy?; YP resolution
Nationalist tsunami
Big numbers attended Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom protest. Part display of xenophobic hatred, part elegy for an imagined past, part call to arms. The left needs to rethink its strategy, argues Eddie Ford
Endless embarrassments
Angela Rayner, Peter Mandelson and Boris Johnson are not isolated cases. We live under a regime of institutional corruption. Mike Macnair looks for the roots of successive scandals
Straight from Momentum playbook
Branches are to be ignored and the mass of members treated to token regional meetings and pointless break‑out sessions. Carla Roberts examines the plans for November’s founding conference
The road from Eton College
Seventy-five years after George Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers, in the fourth part of his series, focuses on the establishment’s ideological misuse of Animal farm
Working within Your Party
The strategy of ‘seizing the initiative’ by proposing hypothetical actions in the hope that others will agree is a common mistake on the far left. It leads to multiple competing initiatives. Farzad Kamangar reports
Death of a sycophant
Charlie Kirk’s assassination is another glimpse into a particularly American pathology. Paul Demarty expects nothing good to come of it