WW archive > Issue 1577 - 19 March 2026
Peering through the fog of war
One leader after another is being assassinated. Apart from that, Trump’s war aims remain contradictory and unclear. The regime is certainly not going to spontaneously collapse, argues Yassamine Mather
Letters
YP Scots split; Provo YP; YP questions; Accessible Marx; Another Titanic; Weekly satire
Don’t give in to the big lie
Jeremy Corbyn got it wrong. So has Zohran Mamdani. We must oppose, not appease, media claims that opposition to Zionism is equivalent to anti-Semitism, writes Eddie Ford
Madmen versus Marx
Private property and war go hand-in-hand. Capitalism in turn has made wars ever bigger and ever more dangerous. How do we rescue human civilisation? Ted Reese outlines some of his answers
Black Friday betrayal
Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad charts the delayed birth of the CPGB, the return of the Great Unrest, the collapse of the Triple Alliance and Lenin’s thoughts on the councils of action
Syndicalist quackery
Their understanding of who constitutes the working class is radically false. So is their strategy of industrial colonisation. Mike Macnair thinks that the Spartacists are trapped in a dumb orthodoxy
We need light and air
Real power is being exercised behind the backs of the elected committee members. The aim is clear: a politically pliant membership which votes in the approved way in occasional referendums and does the donkey work in elections. Meanwhile demands for closed sessions, secrecy and codes of conduct are threatening to paralyse Grassroots Left, reports Carla Roberts
One-dimensional men
Louis Theroux’s latest documentary has sparked perplexed commentary in the liberalosphere. Why is the tacky world of masculinist influencers so attractive to so many young men? Paul Demarty gives us his take