Society & Culture
Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
Going beyond protest politics
19 Feb 2026
On the one side, almost exclusively made up of the right and far right, there are those who blindly argue that global heating is not happening, or if it is, it is no big deal. On the other side, almost everyone else. So what is to be done? Bill McGuire takes a look at Jack Conrad’s The little red climate book
Burn, baby, burn
19 Feb 2026
Yet another study shows the climate system rapidly approaching multiple tipping points, writes Eddie Ford. Meanwhile the US president is criminally chucking more fuel onto the fire
What’s up, doc?
12 Feb 2026
Doctors are leaving in droves. It is not just that Australia, New Zealand and Canada look more attractive. There is, says James Linney, the push factor too. Labour is proving to be little different from the Tories
Spreading panic and confusion
12 Feb 2026
Alex Callinicos is playing a cynical opportunist game when he compares the situation in Minneapolis with fascist terror in Italy. He wants to excuse the Together popular front, writes Eddie Ford
A little flame snuffed out
29 Jan 2026
Paul B. Smith reviews M Farrar and K McDonnell Big Flame: building movements, new politics Merlin Press 2024, pp356, £30
Freedom comes with thorns
29 Jan 2026
Australia has done it, France has done it too, the Tory frontbench and teaching unions want to do it, the government might do it. They all want to ban under-16s using social media. But should we go along with such kneejerk draconian restrictions? We certainly should not, argues Baris Graham
March to the right
22 Jan 2026
Robert Jenrick’s defection, Reform UK’s consistent lead in opinion polls and talk of Nigel Farage being the next prime minister - all pose urgent challenges for the left. Going ever broader, tailing celebrities, joining a Stop Reform coalition will not do, writes Eddie Ford
Drawing a clear red line
15 Jan 2026
Zionism is an inverted form of racism. Pro-Zionists should not be in an explicitly anti-Zionist organisation. Jack Conrad urged the Socialist Unity Platform to stand by its agreed principles
Man of his times?
08 Jan 2026
The ascendancy of a young, sexless neo-Nazi with legions of internet fans has caused a political crisis in the American right. What explains the rise of Nick Fuentes and his ‘Groypers’? Paul Demarty investigates
Involution and plan
08 Jan 2026
China’s 15th five-year plan is big on artificial intelligence. It will be diffused into every sector of the economy. Meanwhile, because it does not follow the ‘western model’, Michael Roberts argues, the country can plan investments and sustain high growth rates
Heroes amidst the horror
18 Dec 2025
Shock and trauma in the Jewish community is real and will be lasting. However, Zionists are cynically attempting to use the Bondi massacre to discredit the mass pro-Palestine movement. Marcus Strom reports from Sydney
Silicon mountain
11 Dec 2025
Mainstream economists remain divided on whether AI will deliver in the same way that railways did in the 19th century, or the internet did in the late 20th century, but one thing is certain, writes Michael Roberts: the bubble will burst
The meaning of Christmas
11 Dec 2025
A money-making opportunity for sure, but there is politics too. The far right in particular have taken up Christianity with a vengeance. Then there is Jesus, the real, historical Jesus, the revolutionary Palestinian executed by the Roman occupiers. Jack Conrad investigates
What a cop-out
27 Nov 2025
You could not make it up, says Eddie Ford. Cop30 did not even mention coming off fossil fuels in its final text. Nor, despite being held in Belém, the gateway to the Amazon, was there a commitment to halting deforestation
Wood for the trees
27 Nov 2025
Fantasies about a Jewish empire have nothing to do with anti-Zionism, argues Tony Greenstein. In fact they can only help Zionism by echoing anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracy theories