WW archive > Issue 1603 - 01 October 2026
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Notes on space
US airforce secretary Troy Meink has confirmed what we long knew: America has deployed ‘space control weapons’ in low Earth orbit. While details remain unclear, the dangers are all too evident. Jack Conrad argues that space display, space science and space war have a symbiotic relationship
Letters
Vote … er; Vote Galloway; DSA democracy; Cynical sideliner; Lenin thinking; Straightjacket, ja; Strategic insights; Rosenberg fund; Maoist revolution?
Vote for Palestine
Elections always involve difficult tactical calculations. We favour voting and active participation over sitting on the sidelines in the name of purity. Zack Polanski has supported the pro-Palestine protests and now calls himself an ‘anti-Zionist’. On October 8 that should count. Carla Roberts weighs the pros and cons
Publish the report in full
In what could be the stirrings of climate socialism the JIC security chiefs are warning of apocalyptic dangers, writes Eddie Ford. We demand complete openness on such matters. The public need to know what the government does not want the public to know
Threats, walkouts and secret talks
Trump set the tone. From the podium of an organisation supposedly founded to prevent war between states, he mused about the “annihilation” of Iran. Yassamine Mather looks at the theatre that is the UN general assembly
Cockroaches dent Modi’s veneer
A single tweet turned into a mass movement that removed India’s education minister and shook the BJP regime to its foundations. But where now? David Lockwood looks beyond streets, strikes and protests
In their thousands, insects
Blood sucking flies, mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and other bugs are spreading diseases once confined to the tropics and subtropics. James Linney says the blame lies squarely with climate change and a system blinded by production for the sake of production
Hacking in a fragile world
As the FBI has found to its cost, from state actors to trivial script-kiddies, hackers are on the attack. The networked world is more vulnerable than ever. But why? asks Paul Demarty
Guilty on all charges
Man City systematically inflated revenues and reduced costs to hide the owner spending some £830 million to buy success on the field. What does this say about top-flight football? Carl Collins gives some compelling answers