WW archive > Issue 1573 - 19 February 2026
Burn, baby, burn
Yet another study shows the climate system rapidly approaching multiple tipping points, writes Eddie Ford. Meanwhile the US president is criminally chucking more fuel onto the fire
Letters
Petty points; Unpack the crap; Vote GL?; Imperiali STV; Change tactics; Lights out; YP duals; More confusion; Frog apologist; Hugo voter; Poison pen
Going beyond protest politics
On the one side, almost exclusively made up of the right and far right, there are those who blindly argue that global heating is not happening, or if it is, it is no big deal. On the other side, almost everyone else. So what is to be done? Bill McGuire takes a look at Jack Conrad’s The little red climate book
Notes on the war
Four years since the launch of the ‘special military operation’, Russia is predictably bogged down in a war of attrition. Exactly what the US wanted, says Jack Conrad. But now we have Trump, the trifecta and the shredding of the post-World War II order
Drag towards bureaucracy
Grassroots Left is discussing how the party can be run democratically and what to do to ensure that CEC members are properly held to account. Carla Roberts explains
Ban fraudulent legislation
Judges have struck down the government decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism legislation. This is an important victory - but a limited one, argues Mike Macnair. In the name of ‘national security’ the government can, and says it will, appeal
The dog and the tail
Many, including on the left, believe that America’s support for Israel damages its national interests, that the explanation for the irrational behaviour lies with the sinister influence of the pro-Israel lobby, even wealthy Jews. Moshé Machover disagrees. American support for Israel is not irrational: it serves its national interests
Marxist or liberal foreign policy?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a splash at the Munich security conference with a ‘left’ defence of US power, writes Paul Demarty. Can the Democratic Socialists of America hold its elects to account?