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
The Goldsmiths ideology
28 May 2015
The rightwing press campaign against Bahar Mustafa puts the parlous state of student politics under the spotlight, writes Paul Demarty
A gay day for equality
28 May 2015
Anne McShane celebrates the defeat of the Catholic church and calls for the battle for democracy to include the aim of socialism
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
Court protects Labour corruption
30 Apr 2015
After Lutfur Rahman’s removal as Tower Hamlets mayor, Paul Demarty calls for authentic local democracy
Contradictions laid bare
23 Apr 2015
There are two sides to South Africa’s ‘vibrant emerging market economy’. Peter Manson points to the underlying causes of the xenophobia
Victims of capitalism
23 Apr 2015
The needless death of hundreds of refugees puts the left to the test, says Tina Becker
Headlong into a trap
09 Apr 2015
After Socialist Resistance’s bungled intervention into transgender politics, Paul Demarty calls for serious debate - not trolling and trigger warnings
After the death of Jesus
02 Apr 2015
According to western Christian mythology, Jesus died on Good Friday and came back to life three days later on what we now call Easter Monday. But, argues Jack Conrad, Jesus and his first followers were not Christians, but Jewish revolutionaries. It was Paul who invented Christianity
Collaborators and the ANC
19 Mar 2015
Jacob Dlamini Askari Jacana Media (Johannesburg), pp305, R225 (£12.25)
Behind the Psycho drama
19 Mar 2015
Zoë Howe Barbed wire kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain story Polygon, 2014, pp306, £12.99
Funny is not the opposite of serious
19 Mar 2015
Terry Pratchett’s work and life was powered by a kindly moral anger, writes Eddie Ford
Natalie Bennett’s motley crew
12 Mar 2015
While the Green Party as a whole is not supportable, argues Robert Hayes, a small number of its candidates may be
Against feminism, for the working class
05 Mar 2015
Geraldine Duffy writes for International Women's Day in March 1985
An education fit for human beings?
26 Feb 2015
Micky Coulter analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the LU policy
Wrong kind of radicalisation
26 Feb 2015
How to explain the ‘teenage brides for IS’? Mike Macnair examines the phenomenon of hope in a disastrous illusion against the background of the left’s failure