WW archive > Issue 1297 - 30 April 2020
Letters
US democracy; Marxists unite!; Depravity
Demonisation of China
Attacks are driven not by pandemic concerns, writes Eddie Ford, but imperial pushback.
Upping the ante
Yassamine Mather reports on the double standards, misinformation and stupidity of the ‘regime change from above’ advocates
Lenin avatars
Mike Macnair looks at the treatment of the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth in some of the left press
Truth shall make you free
According to the latest conspiracy theories, Covid-19 is a bioweapon leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, introduced into China by a US spy team or caused by electromagnetic radiation. There have been dozens of attacks on 5G masts and engineers in Britain. Why do people believe in such nonsense? Edmund Griffiths investigates
Only choice we have
Rex Dunn argues that the left must unite around the Transitional programme if it is going to get anywhere
Fundamental principles
William Sarsfield continues his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
Hitting the poor
Peter Manson welcomes the limited success in restricting the pandemic, but it is clear that the problems are structural