WW archive > Issue 1592 - 02 July 2026
Ten years after
Brexit went hand-in-hand with the promise of national freedom, economic dynamism, the shredding of bureaucratic regulations and a massive NHS spending boost. Few would argue nowadays that anything like that has been delivered, writes Paul Demarty
Letters
YP Durham; Gregson’s ego; RS21 network; ‘Partyists’ split; Bolshevik cancer?; Long downturn
Preparing for the worst
Record heatwaves in the UK and across Europe provide a grim harbinger of things to come, writes Eddie Ford. Meanwhile far-right ideologues demonise Ed Miliband because of his commitment to achieving net zero by 2050
Obscene wealth not main problem
Instead of showing how ‘transparent’ the royal family is, writes Carla Roberts, the release of the tax returns of Charles III and William Mountbatten-Windsor shows how vulnerable this abhorrent institution really is
Legalism and labyrinthine rules
Neither Major Henry M Robert nor Lord (Walter) Citrine provide the approach needed by the revolutionary working class. Mike Macnair critiques the widely accepted parliamentary forms of decision-making in the third of a series of articles
Change and stasis
Andy Burnham will be crowned leader and become the seventh prime minster in ten years. We should not expect a mass influx into the Labour Party. Scott Evans reports on the June 28 aggregate of CPGB comrades
My summer reading
Here are three widely-read titles that I could not ignore, writes Michael Roberts
More than a matter of words
Negotiations are happening, but their significance is much disputed and there are those, not least inside Iran, who want no agreement. Then there is Lebanon and the danger of civil war. Yassamine Mather reports