WW archive > Issue 1296 - 23 April 2020
Letters
Total mess; Blame BAME; Won’t change; Circus of lies; Resounding ‘No!’; Vote Biden; Popular frontist?; Hunger strike
Weaponising ‘anti-Semitism’
Labour’s leaked report does not tackle the central question, argues Moshé Machover
Sleepwalking into disaster
The government knew for years that a ‘terrifying’ pandemic was coming, says Eddie Ford, yet it did next to nothing to prepare
Euro’s corona crisis
Covid-19 has brought EU contradictions to the fore, argues Michael Roberts
Crisis and consequences
Mike Macnair speculates about the longer-term effects of the Covid-19 shutdown
Shielding the powerful
Heavy-handed legal threats against Labour show up the real effects of data protection legislation, argues Paul Demarty
Party and parliament
William Sarsfield continues his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
Coronavirus and the political organism
There is now a hole where a superpower used to be, writes Daniel Lazare