Trump promises to mete out a beating. Saudi Arabia becomes directly involved. Pezeshkian urges Iranians to stand firm against the enemy. Yassamine Mather explains why the ceasefire could not hold weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/oppose-both-imperialism-and-tyranny/

I’m fast becoming the WW’s sports correspondent 😂

Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)@thecpgb.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cricket was born in rural England and spread globally alongside British colonialism. Nowadays, however, India is the dominant force and, as shown by The Hundred, commercial considerations rule, says Carl Collins weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/capitalisms-compressed-game/

Hyperscalers are banking on two colossal assumptions. First, that AI will be profitable - eventually. Second, that there will be widespread demand for AI - and soon. Michael Roberts investigates weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/playing-for-highest-stakes/

There are calls to end the ‘firewall’ against the AfD, there are calls to ban it too. Carla Roberts says we need independent working class politics and our own ‘firewall’ against coalitions with bourgeois parties weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/no-bans-no-coalitions/

Prompted by Rajiv Menon KC being prosecuted for contempt over his defiant Palestine Action defence speech, Mike Macnair shows that the struggle to defend and extend the jury system has a long and contested history weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/guided-by-conscience-not-judges/

Can Farage get out from under the mounting corruption allegations against him and his party? As bad as it looks, don’t bet against him, warns Paul Demarty. For certain, negative SWP campaign won’t make an iota of difference weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/sleaze-at-the-seaside/

Record temperatures, intense rainfall, terrifying whirlwinds and murderous wildfires - all are sure signs of a runaway climate crisis that can only get worse. The solution cannot lie in tinkering with capitalism. weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1596/hell-on-earth/

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Fucking crooks

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices

Shout out to all the other roofers who’s bosses are shithouses

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 6d ago

🚨 NEW: An estimated 2,877 people died from heat-associated causes during the May and June heatwaves, almost double that of 2025

Live map of the wildfires in France. Truly terrifying… incendieencours.fr/en

Wildfires Now 🔥 LIVE Map – See All Active Fires in France in Real Time

Real-time wildfire map of France with NASA FIRMS data (VIIRS/MODIS): hotspots, FRP, confidence level. Automatic updates and advanced filters.

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Forget terrorism, this is the kind of thing that should see a British person lose their citizenship & be sent into exile. He should be made to live in the Falklands & we'll get 2 guys to follow him about, 1 ringing a bell & the other shouting shame. #cricket #ClickGate #c4news #Newsnight #Yorkshire

That’s better. Club football is back, where we all hate a) the directors b) the manager c) the existing players d) the players we have signed e) the players we haven’t signed f) the coaches g) online supporters of our club h) all other supporters of our club i) everyone else. Just as it should be.

The fact that the right-wing press and its political pals are having to make up policies that Burnham hasn't even proposed yet just so they can feign horror, tells us something They are struggling so far

Well it was nice of Eskinazi to turn up at least 😂 LEI 199 (48.2/50 ov) Stephen Eskinazi* 93(140) Click here to view more on Cricinfo:https://www.cricinfo.com/series/one-day-cup-2026-1513325/nottinghamshire-vs-leicestershire-group-a-1513477/live-cricket-score

What a headline

Mirror Politics@politics.mirror.co.uk · last wk.

Labour has overtaken Reform in two major polls as Nigel Farage spends the summer arguing with a bin.

As wildfires rip across France and Spain, forecasters are predicting a “super” El Niño weather cycle that could bring even more extreme weather.

"Free Lucy Connolly" and "jail Zack Polanski" are not remotely intellectually consistent as positions. Anyone who's said both – hi Zia! – can be dismissed as an insincere grifter. And that's even before you factor that Connolly's post was significantly worse *and* made during a time of riots.

Killer Whales seen off the West Coast of Ireland (Donegal, but you never know, like) 🐋

Killer Whale sightings off West coast of Ireland as famous Orcas drop by

They are from a documented pod and may travel south

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Letters to the Weekly Worker SWP booted; Neo Spart nats; Unite election; Follow SF lead; 1905 dreaming; Still going strong; My permission; Domesticated left; Follow Mandelson; Ageism as well weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/letters/

Jack Conrad reviews Bill McGuire The fate of the world: a history and future of the climate crisisHarper Collins, 2026, pp265, £20 weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/back-to-a-hothouse-earth/

American air superiority is overwhelming, but it cannot stop retaliation or open the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, civilian targets are increasingly being hit, warns Yassamine Mather weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/deadlock-and-danger-of-escalation/

Crass commercialisation, a source of huge FIFA revenues, crude political interference by Donald Trump, but also moments of pure football joy. Carl Collins weighs up the pros and cons weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/most-profitable-yet/

Opposition forces on the CEC might actually constitute a small majority now. But they have neither the organisational cohesion nor the politics required to carry out the revolution that is needed, explains Carla Roberts weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/rebellion-that-never-was/

Mike Macnair concludes his series on procedural principles by discussing the advantages of democratic centralism weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/break-from-failed-nostrums/

Overthrowing capitalism entails a culture of radical free speech, not least in the left and our own movement. Paul Demarty responds to the ‘N-word affair’ weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/polemic-not-shibboleths/

Andy Burnham claims he will head a ‘cost of living’ government that will bring back hope and turn the page on 40 years of Thatcherism. But he will do nothing of the sort, reckons Eddie Ford weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1595/cut-from-the-same-cloth/

Cut from the same cloth

Andy Burnham claims he will head a ‘cost of living’ government that will bring back hope and turn the page on 40 years of Thatcherism. But he will do nothing of the sort, reckons Eddie Ford

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