WW archive > Issue 1565 - 11 December 2025
Rough guide to personalities and platforms
Your Party launch conference might not have been allowed to discuss amendments that sought to enshrine the right of members to form platforms and factions - but there are plenty of them already operating and most of them openly. Carla Roberts takes a look
Letters
Open letter; OMOV good points; Organise in YP; Sultana hope; No friend; Agreement; Cranks together; Targeting migrants
Return of gutter racism
Nigel Farage will no doubt survive accusations of boyhood racism. This highlights the drift of politics to the right, argues Paul Demarty - and the total failure of liberal anti-racism
Tectonic shifts on right
Though denied, it seems quite possible that Nigel Farage will strike some sort of deal with the Tories, either before or after the next election. Some even talk of a merger, reports Eddie Ford
The meaning of Christmas
A money-making opportunity for sure, but there is politics too. The far right in particular have taken up Christianity with a vengeance. Then there is Jesus, the real, historical Jesus, the revolutionary Palestinian executed by the Roman occupiers. Jack Conrad investigates
Zohran set to scab
He does not want to upset the Democratic Party establishment or anger the ruling class. Parker McQueeney reports on the manoeuvrings of New York City’s mayor-elect
Silicon mountain
Mainstream economists remain divided on whether AI will deliver in the same way that railways did in the 19th century, or the internet did in the late 20th century, but one thing is certain, writes Michael Roberts: the bubble will burst
Casting aside the veil
Women are openly flouting laws imposing the hijab. The regime is split on how to respond. Yassamine Mather argues that the fight for women’s liberation must be linked to anti-imperialism and the working class struggle