WW archive > Issue 1562 - 20 November 2025
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Twilight of the Beeb
The current crisis of the BBC is the outcome of long-term transformation of the wider British establishment, and its total subordination to the USA, argues Paul Demarty
Letters
Paucity of inches?; Zarah for leader; Nat separatist; Green time; Trans liberation; Pile of drivel; Ignorant distortion
Politics of right-moving centre
Rogier Specht of the Communistisch Platform assesses the recent general election and the first attempts to form a new coalition government. Unfortunately what passes for the ‘left’ is pro-Nato and pro-war. Principled Marxists have a duty to get their act together
All out for Liverpool!
With fractures and splits at the top, conference, as the party’s sovereign body, ought to seize control and elect an emergency leadership. There is every reason to believe that such a bold initiative will be heartily welcomed by branches and members, says Carla Roberts
Splitting over unity
Despite its own Labourite name, Steve Freeman, of the Republican Labour Education Forum, says there can be no unity with those whom he calls social monarchists … or even those who are committed to Socialist Unity as a label of convenience
Darkness and its reflections
Jim Moody picks out four of the best films screened at the LFF which are now on release in the UK
Capital’s structural rot
As stock markets reach new highs in a speculative orgy, perhaps the signs are that a massive crash, outdoing 1929, is already underway. The stats for the jobs market, private and government borrowing and housing certainly show that America, the world’s largest economy, is entering recessionary territory. World socialism becomes ever more necessary, writes Ted Reese
Twenty years of uncertainty
Mahmood wants to pull the rug from under Reform UK by adopting its migration agenda, writes Eddie Ford