WW archive > Issue 1559 - 30 October 2025

Not just one rotten apple

Disgraced Prince Andrew’s antics are bad enough - the real scandal is the continued existence of the monarchy. Roll on the red republic, says Paul Demarty

Letters

Pro-Hamas CPGB?; Hamas resistance; Elected monarch; YP first step; YP Sheffield; YP Milton Keynes; YP differences; YP Wales; Majority rule; Phil Railston; Look other way

Where next for global capital?

Creative destruction is meant to cleanse the system of obsolete technology and failing and unprofitable capital. In their place new innovatory firms would prosper, boosting the productivity of labour and delivering more value. There is, though, as Michael Roberts notes, a problem

Notes on America

Second-term Trump has been radically different from first-term Trump. And now there are the on-again, off-again musings about a third term. Either way, argues Jack Conrad, the mould of American politics has been broken

False party concepts

Left organisations which stand for managerialist organisational conceptions function as actual outworks of the fortifications of capitalist rule. Mike Macnair criticises the Cliffite SWP and the Grantite RCP

Dialectic of transition

A Marxist political economy that assumes endless capital accumulation and crisis, until at some point the system breaks down in a final crisis, makes the mistake of conflating capital with capitalism, argues Peter Kennedy

Geopolitical balancing act

At a time when there is a lot of talk about artificial intelligence being a bubble that is ready to burst, there are those Gulf states who want to become major players. Yassamine Mather investigates

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