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Founded by expelled PCI members, Il Manifesto has successfully outlived its rivals. Toby Abse praises the consistent anti-capitalism and pans the Maoist absurdities

Brexit, together with shifts in both population and political allegiances, means that something now has to give, reckons Derek James

While the March on Rome was significant, writes David Broder, the active collaboration of the Italian ruling class with the fascists was central

Letters Diane Abbott made a particularly stupid comment when interviewed on the Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme on Sky News (May 9). She has taken to trying to talk very slowly - either in a vain attempt to add ‘gravitas’ or, more likely, to try and enable her brain to keep pace with her mouth. Asked whether Labour could ever win a general election again, Abbott replied that Eric Hobsbawm had written a widely circulated article in 1978 entitled ‘The forward march of Labour halted?’ and...

Inflation and financial risk Covid-19 has blown a big hole in the theories of mainstream economists, Michael Roberts explains Is inflation coming back? As the US economy (in particular) and other major economies begin to rebound from the Covid slump of 2020, the talk among mainstream economists is whether inflation in the prices for goods and services in those economies is going to accelerate to the point where central banks have to tighten monetary policy (ie, stop injecting credit into the ba...

Sorry results of tailism Narrow nationalism of all varieties distorts, twists and inverts class politics. Paul Demarty provides a preliminary post-mortem on the May 6 results In some respects, the unfolding of the election results was sequenced unfairly to Sir Keir Starmer. The first things we learned about were the Hartlepool by-election and several English council elections, and it was here that we saw Labour’s greatest embarrassments. Strong showings in mayoral races and indeed in election...

Good news! Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund I’m sure that a large number of comrades reading this will be delighted to hear the good news: yes, many of you will have guessed - we’re just about to resume printing! It’s going to happen in exactly three weeks time, on June 3 - provided there’s no last-minute hitch, of course (unlikely, but you never know). As comrade TH told me this week, “I just can’t wait to get the Weekly Worker in my hands once more!” Just a...

Stench of Zionist colonisation What is going on in Jerusalem? Why the provocations? Moshé Machover looks behind the latest flare-up of violence The Zionist colonisation regime spreads a nauseating stench - literally. I am referring to an Israeli invention, appropriately named ‘Skunk’ and described as a “non-lethal weapon of mass control”. It is a liquid used by Israel’s armed forces on its colonial subjects as a means of crowd control as well as of collective punishment - jets of it ...

The politics of denial Class and the politics of narrow nationalism are now entwined, writes Eddie Ford. Instead of denying its own role in helping to bring about this sorry situation, the left needs to do some serious thinking Everyone is now trying to come to terms with the fallout from last week’s elections on ‘super Thursday’, especially the Hartlepool disaster-cum-debacle. Firstly, insofar as it is a valid exercise at all, how would the results have panned out in a general election? ...

Reality of ethnic cleansing Tony Greenstein argues that despite its military might the Zionist state is losing the propaganda war As Israel resorts to the only thing it knows - the murder of Palestinians, bombing and mass destruction - it is worth looking at the background to what is happening. It can be summed up in a nutshell: the continued colonial momentum towards ethnic cleansing and the racial purification of Jerusalem, symbolised by the attack on al-Aqsa mosque on May 7. Despite the fals...