Weekly Worker

Louis Theroux’s latest documentary has sparked perplexed commentary in the liberalosphere. Why is the tacky world of masculinist influencers so attractive to so many young men? Paul Demarty gives us his take weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/on…

The aim is a politically pliant membership which votes in the approved way in referendums and does the donkey work in elections. Meanwhile demands for closed sessions and codes of conduct are threatening to paralyse Grassroots Left, reports Carla Roberts weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/we…

Their understanding of who constitutes the working class is radically false. So is their strategy of industrial colonisation. Mike Macnair thinks that the Spartacists are trapped in a dumb orthodoxy weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/sy…

Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad charts the delayed birth of the CPGB, the return of the Great Unrest, the collapse of the Triple Alliance and Lenin’s thoughts on the councils of action weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/bl…

Private property and war go hand-in-hand. Capitalism in turn has made wars ever bigger and ever more dangerous. How do we rescue human civilisation? Ted Reese outlines some of his answers weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/ma…

Jeremy Corbyn got it wrong. So has Zohran Mamdani. We must oppose, not appease, media claims that opposition to Zionism is equivalent to anti-Semitism, writes Eddie Ford weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/do…

One leader after another is being assassinated. Apart from that, Trump’s war aims remain contradictory and unclear. The regime is certainly not going to spontaneously collapse, argues Yassamine Mather weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/pe…

If only Jeremy Corbyn had reacted like that. Full solidarity with @zarahsultana

@SamuraiApology Very much agree.

"it was a highly unusual meeting" unfortunately there's nothing unusual about it. sounds like exactly the same dysfunctional, antidemocratic way that Momentum's NCG was run.

YP HQ does not want to stand in elections and does not want to the branches to work - that much is clear from the first meeting of the CEC (attended also by staffers Karie Murphy, Alex Nunns, Angus Satow and Artin Giles - the people who are really running the party)

Everything was factionally choreographed. All knew what was going to happen and how they were supposed to vote. That is how The Many fights the left. Appeals for ‘unity’, ‘reconciliation’ or, god help us, ‘away days’ are beyond useless, says Carla Roberts weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/co…

Abridged report from Grassroots Left CEC members weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/ho…

Its readership remains stubbornly of pensionable age. Its journalism has become more and more stupid. With ‘AI transformation’ on the agenda, Paul Demarty expects a further descent into worthless slop weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/se…

Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad looks at the background of imperial decline, Ireland, women’s suffrage, trade union militancy and working class defence of Soviet Russia weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/gr…

Today’s left is in a mess. The worst thing we can do is to repeat solutions that unmistakably failed in the past. Charlotte Bourchier of the Spartacist League of Australia discusses the debates in Communist Unity weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/ke…

t is not about one bad apple. Nor is it about cultural identity or historical symbolism. No, it is about political power. Republicanism must be central to our socialist project, argues Marcus Strom, editor of Labor Tribune. weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/ab…

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces acute problems on every front. Now there is the US-Israel assault on Iran. How will Turkey respond? Esen Uslu gives his take on regional rivalries and the challenges faced by the left weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/wi…

Not so long ago Trump was saying that there would be a popular welcome for US intervention. A big lie: the working class has always opposed regime change from above. Yassamine Mather assesses the battle for hearts and minds weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1576/sa…