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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
SWP and feminism: Rape is not the problem
14 Mar 2013
Red-baiting and feminist attacks on the SWP must be resisted, in spite of everything, argues Paul Demarty
Film review: Priced into dying
28 Feb 2013
Jim Moody reviews: Dylan Mohan Gray (director) 'Fire in the blood' (general release)
Zizek review: Going ‘beyond Marx’ - or regressing?
28 Feb 2013
Callum Williamson reviews: Slavoj Zizek, 'The year of dreaming dangerously'. Verso, 2012, pp142, £7.99
Tarantino and Spielberg reviews: Abolition and emancipation
21 Feb 2013
Mike Belbin reviews: Steven Spielberg (director) Lincoln, Quentin Tarantino (director) Django unchained
SWP and the internet: Let a thousand blogs bloom
14 Feb 2013
Bureaucrats fear the dark side of the internet in the same way they previously feared the printing press and the photocopier, writes Eddie Ford
Phil Piratin review: Tragic consequences
07 Feb 2013
Lawrence Parker reviews: Kevin Marsh and Robert Griffiths, 'Granite and honey: the story of Phil Piratin, communist MP', Manifesto Press, 2012, pp256, £14.95
Left press and the SWP: The dog that didn’t bark
07 Feb 2013
The silence of significant sections of the left on the Socialist Workers Party crisis is a symptom of sectarianism, argues Paul Demarty
Argo review: How to distract the masses
31 Jan 2013
Jim Moody reviews: Ben Affleck (director) 'Argo', 2012, general release
Film reviews: Artistic branding iron
20 Dec 2012
Jim Moody reviews: Kjell Sundvall (director) The hunters (1996); False trail (2011)
New Russian art: Accusing misery, celebrating resilience
13 Dec 2012
Mike Belbin reviews the art exhibition 'Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union: new art from Russia' at Saatchi Gallery, Duke of Yorks HQ, Kings Road, London SW3 ; admission free, ends May 5 2013
Leveson report: The dog that didn’t bark
06 Dec 2012
The recommendations of the Leveson report are worse than the status quo, argues Paul Demarty - but not by much
BBC crisis: Child abuse and desperate diversions
22 Nov 2012
Sections of the bourgeois press are attempting to conceal their own crisis by hammering the BBC, writes Paul Demarty
Anthropology: Imperialist abuse of science
01 Nov 2012
Simon Wells reviews: David H Price, 'Weaponizing anthropology: social science in service of the militarized state', AK Press (Counterpunch series), 2011, £12, pp208
Berlusconi: Another guilty verdict
01 Nov 2012
If past form is anything to go by, Silvio Berlusconi will not serve a day of his latest jail sentence, writes Toby Abse
Jimmy Savile: Establishment’s dirty little secret
18 Oct 2012
The establishment furore over the Jimmy Savile scandal has more to it than is being let on, reports Paul Demarty