Society & Culture > Anthropology
World-historic defeat of women
19 Apr 2012
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group examines myths about a supposed "primitive matriarchy"
Marx’s concept of the human
26 Jan 2017
Rex Dunn begins his three-part exploration of Marx’s essentialism, the nature of the epoch, decline and transition
Overthrowing a false prophet
06 Oct 2016
Jack Conrad reviews: Chris Knight, 'Decoding Chomsky', Yale University Press 2016, pp285, £18.99
Two Noam Chomskys
01 Sep 2016
Chris Knight discusses his new book, where he contrasts Chomsky, the principled political activist, with Chomsky, the military researcher
Life of a heroic traitor
04 Aug 2016
Jim Creegan looks back at the extraordinary story of Roger Casement on the 100th anniversary of his execution
Missing from the story
07 Jul 2016
The story of prehistoric human communism was missing from the SWP's Marxism reports Stan Keable
Communism in living
09 Jun 2016
What can early human society teach us about the future? Camilla Power looks at the lessons of primitive communism
Origin of language lies in song
28 Jan 2016
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group examines one of science’s most intriguing unsolved problems. This is an edited transcript of a talk given to Communist University in August 2015
Humans, nature and dialectics
07 May 2015
Sadly Marxism must be defended against some who claim to be Marxists, or at least sympathetic to Marxism. Jack Conrad shows that this is especially the case when it comes to attacks on Frederick Engels and his work on the dialectics of nature
What can chimpanzees teach us about human nature?
05 Feb 2015
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group explores the relationship between sex, language and culture
Mission Mars and the final frontier
11 Dec 2014
The successful Orion flight has revived dreams of returning to the moon or even going straight to Mars. Yet, no matter how marvellous the technology, Jack Conrad warns that the left would be ill-advised to cheer on the project
Animal liberation and Marxism
23 Jan 2014
Maciej Zurowski attended the weekend school of the Assoziation Dämmerung in Hamburg and spoke to Susann Witt-Stahl, Christian Wittgen and Christin Bernhold
Anthropology: Luxemburg was right
21 Nov 2013
How do Rosa Luxemburgs ideas on primitive communism stand up today? This is an edited version of a speech given by Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group to this months Historical Materialism conference
Science and collaboration
17 Oct 2013
The standard model has been confirmed, writes Anthony Rose. But it is not only Peter Higgs who should be celebrated
Anthropology: Engels was right
12 Sep 2013
In April Sheila McGregors Marxism and womens oppression today was published in the Socialist Workers Partys International Socialism. The journal declined to carry this response from radical anthropologist and SWP member Lionel Sims
Elaine Morgan: Debt of gratitude
01 Aug 2013
Chris Knight remembers the woman who saw off the savanna hypothesis