WW archive > Issue 1040 - 08 January 2015
What if Syriza wins?
Is the left obliged to spread illusions in a Syriza government? No, quite the opposite, argues Eddie Ford
Letters
Best guess; Ruminations; Alien aid; Ancient aliens; Back to Jurassic; Pariah Status; Ted said so
After old man Napolitano
As the Italian president prepares to step down, Toby Abse looks at the likely contenders
Methods of social control
In the age of ‘colour-blindness’, what accounts for the targeting of blacks by police? Jim Creegan critiques a recent influential book
Disastrous legacy
Why do some on the left call for the west to step up its intervention against IS? Yassamine Mather looks at the results of past efforts
The meaning of Jewish identity
Shlomo Sand How I stopped being a Jew Verso, 2014, pp102, £9.99
Left helps screw it up
The left failed the test of the Miners Strike, argues Mark Fischer
Charlie Kimber’s dream world
Peter Manson looks back at the SWP conference
An abuse of power
Whatever the truth of allegations against Andrew Windsor, the Jeffrey Epstein case paints a grim picture of the top of society, reckons Paul Demarty
Here’s hoping
We nearly made our new target says Robbie Rix