WeeklyWorker

WW archive > Issue 1243 - 21 March 2019

Maggots, Marxists and Muslims

Like Anders Breivik, the Christchurch killer has a programmatic world view. Eddie Ford looks at the fascistic idealism of Brenton Tarrant

Letters

Lame duck; Become witches; Incorrect; Phenomenal; Parliament coup; Alienation

Foul residue of colonialism

Rex Dunn examines how the culture and politics of New Zealand and Australia contributed to the Christchurch massacre

Reactionary and dangerous

Mike Macnair condemns Sajid Javid’s cheap grandstanding and critiques proposals to ‘modernise’ treason law

Disasters waiting to happen?

Yassamine Mather examines the facts behind two tragic plane crashes and the loss of hundreds of lives

Bercow’s coup settles nothing

As the chaos continues, Paul Demarty considers the state of British ‘democracy’

Another round of splits

It is a case of ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ for Peter Taaffe’s beleaguered sect. Anne McShane and William Sarsfield look at the mounting problems in the CWI

A basic necessity

Tony O’Brien: ‘Tackling the housing crisis with publicly owned construction by direct labour organisations’, self-published, 2018, pp200, £10

Deadly cost of austerity

James Linney asks what the fall in life expectancy tells us about the state of capitalism in 2019

Optimistic

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