WW archive > Issue 1560 - 06 November 2025
Was always time to talk about a republic
Scandal alone is not enough to do away with the House of Windsor. We need determined political activity to put an end to the monarchy and establish the democratic republic, argues Paul Demarty
Letters
Rights for all; YP dog’s breakfast; Defend YP’s Sultana; YP democracy; YP Manchester; YP South London; Learning Play; More ‘terrorists’?
Duelling editorials
After the February 1917 revolution overthrowing the tsar, the question facing every political party in the soviet system, as well as the mass soviet constituency as a whole, was straightforward: how can we best achieve our revolutionary goals? Lars T Lih hones in on the polemical battle between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks before the return of Irakli Tsereteli and Vladimir Lenin to Russia
Call for a Political Statement boycott
Citing Tony Benn and his 1992 Commonwealth Bill, Steve Freeman of the Republican Labour Education Forum calls for dividing the working class movement in Britain along national lines, and a common organisation with the petty bourgeois Irish nationalists of Sinn Féin
Doing things differently
South Yorkshire Your Party regional assembly was a model of transparency, open debate, participation, democracy and control from below. Tina Becker, a member of the Sheffield proto-branch steering group, reports
Misleadership control-freakery
Legal threats, secrecy, tightly controlled regional assemblies and sheer incompetence has repelled many. However, the left seems to be getting its act together, says Carla Roberts
Unity for what?
Catherine Connolly’s 63.4% election landslide is undoubtedly a symbolic blow against the mainstream establishment and a victory for the coalition of socialist, centre-left parties and progressives who ran her campaign. However, Anne McShane questions the goal of a coalition government being pursued by People Before Profit