WW archive > Issue 1599 - 03 September 2026
Rise of the robots
Headlines have been about outrunning Usain Bolt, playing football and learning to kickbox in just a couple of hours. But, explains Yassamine Mather, the development of humanoid and other such robots is about far more than entertainment and mere spectacle
Letters
Grow your own; Lock ’em up; DSA ‘communists’; Rojava closure; Totalitarian threat; Kill, kill, kill; Fridaisation
Taking unity off the table
Andy Burnham has made it abundantly clear, whatever the Irish people want there will be no border poll. For those, and not only in Sinn Féin, who have fostered illusions in the Good Friday Agreement, this is a strategic body blow. For communists it comes as no surprise, writes Carl Collins
Going through the left
The DSA has grown significantly since 2016 and has recently won a string of congressional nominations. Communists have won increasing influence too. Matthew Campbell-Strupp discussed the perspectives of building a mass Communist Party in America at the opening session of CU 2026
An honest and open culture
People Before Profit has enjoyed modest success as a loose alliance. But if we really want revolution and socialism it must, argues Anne McShane, aspire to become a programmatically rooted mass party of the working class
Standing for open debate
‘No-platforming’ and speech controls are rooted in the cross-class politics of popular frontism and only serve to strengthen the right, argues Mike Macnair. This is an edited version of his talk at CU 2026
Abundance for all
How can climate catastrophe be stopped? Capitalism, almost by definition, depends on endless accumulation and the production of more and more stuff. But, at CU 2026, Ted Reese argued that degrowth is not the answer
Beyond the ‘Epstein class’
We need the truth. We need science. Marxists should abjure conspiracy theories about all-powerful cabals, no matter how popular they are on the internet, argues Paul Demarty