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
Due process and justice
17 Mar 2016
In the interests of political debate and clarification we publish Gerry Downing’s appeal against his expulsion
Everything in socio-economic context
10 Mar 2016
By equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, the bourgeois establishment is determined to brand a racist anyone who dares criticise the Israeli state. Ahistorically plucking out a few phrases from On the Jewish question, it levels the exact same charge against Marx too. Jack Conrad puts the record straight
What will be will be
10 Mar 2016
Michel Houellebecq, Submission, (Translated from the French by Lorin Stein) William Heinemann, 2015, pp256, £18.99
Left wing of Zionism
10 Mar 2016
Recent smears of ‘anti-Semitism’ against the left are an echo of similar allegations emanating from within the left, argues Paul Demarty
Ugly truth about feeling ugly
03 Mar 2016
Our society encourages low self-esteem and unhealthy attitudes towards food, writes Commissaress - and the results are not pretty
Anti-Semitic smears employed by right
03 Mar 2016
The Labour left must get better organised, argues Gary Toms of Labour Party Marxists
Last hurrah of a psychopath
03 Mar 2016
Toni Negri, 'Storia di un comunista', Milan, 2015, pp608, €18, reviewed by Toby Abse
Review: Just a writer of women’s fiction?
18 Feb 2016
Rex Dunn reviews Rachel Cusk,'Outline', Vintage, 2014, pp249, £8.99
Drugs are not the problem
18 Feb 2016
Prohibiting legal highs marks an escalation in the crazy ‘war on drugs’, says Eddie Ford
The strange death of liberal media
18 Feb 2016
The Independent is Britain’s first major print casualty of the digital age, and probably not the last, writes William Kane
A spy in the house of drudge
11 Feb 2016
Geoff Andrews The shadow man: at the heart of the Cambridge spy circle IB Tauris, 2015, pp276, £20
How to leave your kid in a pub
04 Feb 2016
The government’s latest attempt to pretend it knows a thing or two about children is laughable, says Commissaress
Dealing with the legacy
04 Feb 2016
Artist and empire: facing Britain’s imperial past Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1; ends April 10
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
Money spinning cargo cult
07 Jan 2016
Jeremy Hunt reviews, JJ Abrams (director) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12A), 136 minutes, general release