WW archive > Issue 1423 - 15 December 2022
Pagan origins and modern tinsel
Official society combines crass money-making with celebrating the birth of the man-god Jesus. Knowing their history, a few Christians dissent, refuse to join in. Jack Conrad is all for the good things in life
Letters
How to unite?; Badgeland; Looting?; Marx retrograde; Discipline; Coal for steel
Dying of the planet
The Montreal conference on biodiversity was always, predictably, heading towards failure, writes Eddie Ford. Because of the Capitalian, the sixth mass extinction of species is already upon us
No unity with scabs
There need to be clear lines of demarcation. James Harvey reports on CPGB criticisms of the sort of unity being pursued by comrades in the Netherlands
A bogus imperialist narrative
Many people imagine Israel as the natural representative of Jewish memory. Nothing could be further from the truth. Tony Greenstein introduces his new book Zionism during the holocaust
Crime of victimless crime
The harsh treatment meted out to Brittney Griner gives us a glimpse of the human cost of the so-called war on drugs. Daniel Lazare looks at five decades of horror
Forgotten gem retrieved
Stan Keable reviews They won’t let you live by Simon Blumenfeld (introduction by Tali Chilson. London Books 2022, pp250)
G-man behind the curtain
Scandal or nothingburger? Paul Demarty assesses the ‘Twitter files’ and the continued travails of Elon Musk
Back next year
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund