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
Power of child-like logic
09 Jul 2020
Without a centralised leadership BLM risks playing into Trump’s hands, argues Daniel Lazare
Recolouring the past
02 Jul 2020
Jesus was not white, that is for sure. But then nor was he a Christian, says Eddie Ford. He was an apocalyptic revolutionary who hated the Roman empire and its collaborators
Unrecyclable threat
25 Jun 2020
Jim Moody reviews Deia Schlosberg’s The story of plastic
Interlocking phenomena
25 Jun 2020
What is the connection between the coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism? Mehdi Kia investigates
Statue wars
19 Jun 2020
Eddie Ford says it is healthy to question the iconography that is all around us
The show must go on
19 Jun 2020
As things restart in England, a new stage in the game’s financialisation is about to begin, argues Paul Demarty
Calling a different tone
19 Jun 2020
Will Stratford of the US Platypus Affiliated Society explains why he thinks it is essential for the left to question the establishment’s hegemonic anti-racism
Racism and Covid-19
19 Jun 2020
Capitalism itself is the cause of structural social inequality, writes James Linney
An international explosion
11 Jun 2020
Protests against police violence and structural disadvantage have erupted in country after country, but what happens next, asks Paul Demarty
Race über alles?
11 Jun 2020
Daniel Lazare looks beneath the skin of Black Lives Matter and reveals the links with big business
What about the root causes?
04 Jun 2020
Rutger Bregman Humankind: a hopeful history Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, pp496, £20
The old and the new
28 May 2020
A sharp decline in newspaper print circulation raises questions about the power of the media, argues William Kane
Rise of the Covidiots
21 May 2020
How can pandemic-sceptics deny the reality in front of their eyes? Paul Demarty investigates
Truth shall make you free
30 Apr 2020
According to the latest conspiracy theories, Covid-19 is a bioweapon leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, introduced into China by a US spy team or caused by electromagnetic radiation. There have been dozens of attacks on 5G masts and engineers in Britain. Why do people believe in such nonsense? Edmund Griffiths investigates
Nature and humanity
09 Apr 2020
Did Engels really seek to water down Marx’s concern for the environment? Quite the opposite, argues Michael Roberts