WW archive > Issue 1585 - 14 May 2026
How much longer?
Though Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership hangs in the balance, his failure is less due to incompetence than to Britain’s objective situation, argues Paul Demarty
Letters
Never again!; YP Scotland; CPGB ‘secrets’; Full throttle; BDS now
Toxic nationalist recipes
With the rise of Reform UK, the SNP and Plaid as the biggest parties in Scotland and Wales, our demand for a federal republic has become even more relevant, argues Eddie Ford
Jeremy’s Potemkin village
Left election results were, in general, dismal - Your Party and YP-backed candidates being no exception. So the Corbyn clique has fallen back on official optimism, make-believe and self-deception, says Carla Roberts
What could have been done?
People, their accumulated class traditions, their militant organisations, their ability to produce and sustain a whole body of strong, capable, far-sighted leaders - that is what makes history. Jack Conrad concludes his series of articles on the 1926 General Strike
Break with diplomatic self-silencing
Common-sense anti-factionalism is beginning to be called into question. So the likes of Claudia Webbe, RS21 and the Mandelites have been putting up what passes as an argument. As Mike Macnair shows, the results are neither impressive nor convincing
Ceasefire on life support
With Donald Trump in Beijing, hopes of an Iran deal rose. But not by much. Yassamine Mather does not believe that China will come to the rescue of the US. There is, therefore, the danger of another outbreak of hostilities. Meanwhile many poor countries stand on the brink of economic collapse
Living in dangerous times
Mainstream media has the government in Iran deeply divided. This seems largely unfounded. Meanwhile the Strait of Hormuz remains doubly blockaded. The risk of a sudden escalation is obvious. Scott Evans reports on the May 10 CPGB aggregate
Bent on provocation and violence
Zionists are turning up on leftwing demonstrations in Italy. They want to get excluded, so they can claim to be victims of anti-Semitism. However, as Toby Abse reports, a particular target of the Zionists is leftwing Jews