WW archive > Issue 1563 - 27 November 2025
Neither king nor empress
Do not take sides in a power struggle between MPs. Stop the organised left being banned and proscribed. Vote for an emergency, a temporary collective leadership. Fight for a party republic. Jack Conrad outlines the communist case
Letters
Trans theses; Myopic YP vision; Sortition YP costs; London YP; Durham YP; Glasgow YP; My headline; My appellation; Superb article; Jim’ll sneer at it; Veganuary
Assert sovereignty of members
Instead of a Bonapartist regime, witch-hunts and cynical manipulation, Carla Roberts calls for a collective leadership elected by democratically chosen delegates. But everything relies of the left giving a lead and voting for an emergency resolution and a temporary national committee
Kissing the ring
Zohran Mamdani’s amiable presser with Donald Trump caught many by surprise. But the left must end its dependence on such unaccountable career politicians, argues Paul Demarty
An attack on us all
Marco Rubio and the US state department have designated four European anti-fascist groups as terrorist. The designation came into effect on November 20. Toby Abse sees the thin end of a wedge targeting the whole of the left
Wood for the trees
Fantasies about a Jewish empire have nothing to do with anti-Zionism, argues Tony Greenstein. In fact they can only help Zionism by echoing anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracy theories
What a cop-out
You could not make it up, says Eddie Ford. Cop30 did not even mention coming off fossil fuels in its final text. Nor, despite being held in Belém, the gateway to the Amazon, was there a commitment to halting deforestation