WW archive > Issue 1554 - 25 September 2025
The road from Eton College
Seventy-five years after George Orwell’s death Paul Flewers examines how 1984 caused deep unease on the left and how it was seized by the right as a means of fighting the cold war. This is the fifth in a series of seven articles
Letters
Tony Cliff’s lie; Gaza Italia; YP ad hoc; YP steps; YP network; YP SWP; Carbon economism; Energy fascism; Local role; Boat murder
All the king’s men
Behind all the talk of the ‘special relationship’, there is radical subordination. What about Trump, the man? Not only was his already huge ego fed, flattered and further inflated: there are the mid-terms and maybe even a third term, writes Eddie Ford
Saint Charlie and Trump’s crusade
America’s right is unleashing a wave of repression which began with its own version of ‘cancel culture’, but inevitably now includes the left. Paul Demarty calls for organisational preparedness and an uncompromising defence of free speech
Paved with good intentions
Informed by a pamphlet written by the Pacific Collective (Marxist-Leninist), Jaques de Fouw explains how to build communist unity through a watered down minimal programme and opening up to opportunist groups
Civil war continues
Stay well clear of efforts to ‘save’ Your Party’s launch conference by a self-appointed clique intent on staging their own coup, says Carla Roberts. Instead rely on members, branches, STV elections and democracy
Destruction of reason
Trump’s announcement that paracetamol causes autism is just the latest in a long line of smoke-and-mirror operations.The intention is, argues Ian Spencer, to distract from the real issues