WW archive > Issue 1584 - 07 May 2026
Never let a crisis
No time has been lost in exploiting the Golders Green stabbings. The whole establishment is being mobilised to clamp down on so-called anti-Semitism. Paul Demarty calls for a robust defence of our right to protest and, hand‑in‑hand with that, a new culture of free speech on the left
Letters
Deeply shocking; YP Scotland; Prostitution; Blind rage; All change; People’s football; Boycott Aviva
Not red on the inside
Under Zack Polanski the Greens have attempted to redwash their policies. This has fooled many on the left, including some on the organised left. In reality the Greens remain a thoroughly petty-bourgeois party, says Carla Roberts
Considerations of defeat
Making the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Committee pivotal has become a shibboleth. But the argument does not add up. Jack Conrad says we should stop repeating tired clichés about the 1926 General Strike and learn to think instead
Standoff amid talk of a deal
No surprise, the Tehran regime has survived. Nor has it been forced to sue for an unequal peace. But the country is economically on its knees and the latest Pakistani‑brokered deal could easily flounder. Yassamine Mather gives her assessment
He who pays the piper
Nigel Farage likes to present himself as one of your mates down the pub, but in reality, writes Eddie Ford, his friends are filthy rich. Then there is Christopher Harborne, the crypto billionaire and Reform mega‑donor