WW archive > Issue 1566 - 18 December 2025
Notes on the war
While Ukraine is on the backfoot diplomatically and militarily, the lines of trenches and strongpoints remain essentially static. Perfect conditions for fraternisation and an unofficial Christmas ceasefire, argues Jack Conrad
Letters
Irish prisoners; YP OMOV; SUP meets; YP nationalism; YP drift; Comrade Delta; Rival strikes; Salisbury con
Heroes amidst the horror
Shock and trauma in the Jewish community is real and will be lasting. However, Zionists are cynically attempting to use the Bondi massacre to discredit the mass pro-Palestine movement. Marcus Strom reports from Sydney
Release the hunger strikers
Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation. Now it is illegal to even chant ‘From the river to the sea’ or call for a ‘global intifada’. Government ministers, says Yassamine Mather, are determined to criminalise the entire solidarity movement
Opposing genocide is no crime
Britain supports Israeli genocide in Gaza in deeds, if not in words. Disagreeing with that complicity risks arrest under counter-terrorism laws and a draconian prison sentence, writes Tony Greenstein
BBC must join boycott
Already five counties are refusing to participate. But despite continued Israeli crimes, not Britain. Anne McShane calls for a redoubling of efforts to force a change
Against action programmes
We need to build a mass party and we need to fight for democracy in the state and in the workers’ movement too. Mike Macnair rejects the standard ‘left Trotskyist’ arguments
Too little, too late
Four central committee members closely associated with the ‘Comrade Delta’ scandal have been removed. Just them? Why now? asks Paul Demarty, and will it finally put this self-inflicted disaster to rest?