WW archive > Issue 1582 - 23 April 2026
Style is everything
The CPB’s uniform ban, its craving for respectability, the purging of young rebels who object to its Zionism and its reactionary attacks on trans people - all are morbid symptoms of bureaucratic control-freakery. Eddie Ford tells the tale of two lives and two funerals
Letters
Orgreave enquiry; Double game; Brothel politics; YP delusions; Darker corners
He didn’t want to know
Claimed ignorance of Peter Mandelson’s security rating tells us a great deal about the inner workings of the state. But, says Paul Demarty, we should be demanding full access. Publish everything and ‘security’ be damned
Not so bold politics
Tony Greenstein’s suspension from the Green Party exposes its current left posturing as a total sham. It also shows that investing hopes in the Green Party is completely misplaced. The Green Party is petty-bourgeois through and through, says Carla Roberts
The good, the bad and the party
Confusion reigned over what attitude to take, when it came to the ‘official’ lefts in the trade unions and the Labour Party. Factional rights could conceivably have helped bring about clarity. Jack Conrad marks the centenary of the 1926 General Strike
Sloganeering on autopilot
Marxism demands concrete analysis: it embraces complexity, it rejects trite formulations. With that in mind, Carl Collins takes issue with those who use the slogan, ‘No war but the class war’, to negate political struggle
Third period inflation
Donald Trump’s tariff tantrums have driven prices up. So too has the war with Iran. The turn by central banks to a psychological theory of ‘consumer expectations’ will do nothing to solve the problem, says Michael Roberts
Just so stories
Members of the ISA in the US say they have been expelled for wanting to defend Iran and urging no support for Democrats. Here the comrades outline their political approach. The similarity with the Spartacists is striking, but, significantly, it goes completely unmentioned
Matters of perception
Negotiations have not happened, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and yet the ceasefire continues. Pushing the line that Iran has won is, though, not only factually wrong. It is dangerous, warns Yassamine Mather