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Iran’s Islamic Republic survived the 12-day war. Those, including some on the left, who thought it would collapse were wrong. But those on the left who simply tailed the regime were wrong too, argues Yassamine Mather weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/re…
David Douglass reports on last Saturday’s Durham Miners Gala and the accompanying controversies over Reform, drink and international politics weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/13…
Israel boasts of being the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’, but even members of its own parliament are subject to intolerable harassment and attempts to silence them. Ken Syme urges solidarity with Ofer Cassif weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/sp…
Members of TAS have fielded all sorts of arguments - some serious, most spurious. Mike Macnair cuts through the thicket to show why we need a minimum programme and a period of transition between capitalism and the highest phase of communism weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/co…
Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the PKK to disband and disarm has seen well-publicised ceremonies. Meanwhile, regional developments point to war, rather than peace, writes Esen Uslu weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/ca…
Israel’s apologists insist it defends ‘western civilisation’. But, argues Paul Demarty, the truth is rather more complex. After all, ‘civilisational’ thinking so often plays out as barbarism, Israel today being the prime example weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/ri…
Adding to a malicious prosecution for ‘terrorism’, the banks have joined in by closing accounts. Tony Greenstein describes the treatment meted out to those who dare defy the official narrative when it comes to Israel, anti-Semitism and genocide in Gaza weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/a-…
Yvette Cooper presides over a Palestine Action ban, yet celebrates WSPU suffragettes. Meanwhile, the Labour government facilitates Israeli genocide in Gaza. Anne McShane points the finger at the real criminals weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1547/be…
Weight loss drugs feature regularly in the media. They work in the short term, but what about the long term? And what about the side effects? James Linney looks at the background and provides the answers weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/ca…
Trump did not send anyone to the Seville development conference. Meanwhile, says Michael Roberts, the gap between rich and poor countries remains unchanged, and with aid cuts and growing debts billions face poverty, ill health and an avoidable death weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/de…
Jim Moody reviews Tristan Loraine and Sandra Skibsted (directors) This is your captain speaking (screened at 2025 Raindance Film Festival). Distribution awaited weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/pr…
Lessons from Martin Luther and the Hobbesian demand for speech controls. Can we build a workable communist movement without ruthless truthfulness, even at the cost of giving offence? Paul Demarty thinks no weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/ci…
Being in a majority is nicer than being in a minority, but without minorities accepting being in a minority, there can be no hope of meaningful communist unity. Scott Evans reports on the June 30 TAS meeting weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/ge…
Proscribing Palestine Action marks yet another attempt to silence those raising the alarm over the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Those MPs voting against an increasingly authoritarian government are to be congratulated, argues Ian Spencer weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/de…
BCG and the Tony Blair Institute have modelled plans for Israel to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza, a second Nakba, a war crime, for which all involved ought to be publicly tried and, if found guilty, suitably punished, says Eddie Ford weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/to…
Factional differences in the Corbyn movement have been fought out in secret and then leaked to the bourgeois press. Both sides show not the least understanding of the transparency and democracy, says Carla Roberts weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1546/st…
We should celebrate the triumph of a DSA member in New York City’s Democratic primary, argues Paul Demarty. But what this once again poses is the question of party control over representatives weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1545/af…
Marx provided many lessons of how to draft programmes. However, they were not only about building unity around concrete aims: they were also about drawing clear lines of demarcation, says Jack Conrad weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1545/on…