WW archive > Issue 1570 - 29 January 2026
Dreamscapes and nightmares
While Trump acolytes present glitzy AI images at Davos, Israel continues to kill, imprison and dispossess the Palestinian population. Eddie Ford looks at the new form of colonialism
Letters
Fighting miners; Depoliticisation; Michael Parenti; Coming collapse; False claim?
High hopes turn to ashes
Hailed by some on the left as a unique experiment in egalitarian, decentralised, ecologically sustainable self‑administration, Rojava has ended in bitter disappointment. Yassamine Mather investigates
History repeating itself
Once protected by the US, Kurdish fighters have withdrawn to Kobane and Al Hasakah, but face annihilation. They no longer serve America’s strategic interests. Trump is backing the former terrorist Ahmad al-Sharaa. Esen Uslu pleads for lessons to be learnt
Classical Marxism and general strikes
Can the working class liberate itself through staging one big strike? That was the idea of Chartist leaders and is still the idea of left groups today. Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad looks at the Marx-Engels team and the international debates
Behind the bombast
Growth exploding? Productivity surging? Incomes up? Is the US economy really booming, as Trump claimed in Davos? Michael Roberts paints a rather more nuanced picture
Freedom comes with thorns
Australia has done it, France has done it too, the Tory frontbench and teaching unions want to do it, the government might do it. They all want to ban under-16s using social media. But should we go along with such kneejerk draconian restrictions? We certainly should not, argues Baris Graham
A little flame snuffed out
Paul B. Smith reviews M Farrar and K McDonnell Big Flame: building movements, new politics Merlin Press 2024, pp356, £30
All above board
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a ghoulish confection, but confirms the US intends to completely sideline the old global institutions, writes Paul Demarty