WW archive > Issue 1281 - 09 January 2020
A godsend for the regime
Yassamine Mather assesses the situation in the Middle East following the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Iran’s missile revenge gesture
Letters
Fixed category; Ultra-left; Mass CP; Age of Populism; Get it done; Faragean or not?
Case update
Stan Keable was sacked for political activity, and won a verdict of unfair dismissal: but the decision is being challenged
The great moving right show
Characterising the Johnson government as ‘fascist’ provides some sections of the left with the excuse they need to collapse into broad frontism and class collaborationism, Mike Macnair presents his case
Between a rock and a hard place
Candidates in the Labour leadership election reflect the self-inflicted defeat of the Labour left under Corbyn’s leadership, argues Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Premonition of the future
Australia’s fires are a perfect illustration of the environmental crisis facing the planet, writes Eddie Ford
Our attitude to Europe
A long-standing member of the Communist Party of Britain has tried to start an open debate using the ‘normal channels’. Though this letter was sent to the CPB, the Morning Star and Communist Review in December 2019, it has neither been printed not even acknowledged
Optimism of the intellect ...
Review: The responsibility of intellectuals: reflections by Noam Chomsky and others after 50 years, edited by Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight and Neil Smith (UCL Press 2019, pp142, £13.80)
Preparing the ground for repression
Further scares about anti-Semitism are signs of the times, reckons Paul Demarty