WW archive > Issue 1569 - 22 January 2026
As you were
Despite belatedly dumping the ‘gang of four’ over the 2013 rape scandal, the popular frontist politics remains. So does the lack of openness and obsession with secrecy. Paul Demarty looks at the paradox of change and continuity
Letters
Dual membership; Bolshevik Caucus; The Many; Members’ rights; Hypocrisy
Yet another witch-hunt
Corbyn’s The Many list is stuffed full of careerists, acolytes and the slightly deranged. Meanwhile, using all the Labour Party techniques, left candidates are being barred from standing. A bad omen, warns Carla Roberts
Approaches to the General Strike
Class was pitted against class. The question of state power was posed. Anyone serious about achieving socialism in Britain must painstakingly and critically study the May 3-12 1926 General Strike. Marking the centenary, Jack Conrad begins a series of articles
March to the right
Robert Jenrick’s defection, Reform UK’s consistent lead in opinion polls and talk of Nigel Farage being the next prime minister - all pose urgent challenges for the left. Going ever broader, tailing celebrities, joining a Stop Reform coalition will not do, writes Eddie Ford
Confused and confusing
‘Bring back Keynes’ is the motto, but with some extra emphasis on ‘state capacity’. But, whether it be the Washington Consensus or the London Consensus, bourgeois economists remain at a loss, says Michael Roberts
At home and abroad
Our first members’ aggregate of the year discussed both developments in Your Party and the mass movement in Iran. We are living in challenging times and the left is programmatically ill-equipped. Mike Monitor reports
A fog of misinformation
Shutting down the internet has been hugely costly for ordinary people and allowed lies to flourish as never before. Yassamine Mather exposes the false narratives and finds hope in the largely ignored working class