Society & Culture > Media, arts & sport
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
Obituary: Unrepentance of Eric Hobsbawm
11 Oct 2012
Harley Filben casts an eye over Hobsbawm's legacy
Handling the truth
20 Sep 2012
Establishment mea culpas over Hillsborough have shocked many - but there are more skeletons in the closet, writes Paul Demarty
Pushing the button
13 Sep 2012
The Julian Assange furore is about war, not sex, argues Paul Demarty
Scenes of collective confidence and heroism
13 Sep 2012
David Douglass reviews: Peter Tuffrey, 'Yorkshire people and coal', Amberley Publishing, Stroud 2012, pp128, £12.99
A textbook paranoid narcissist
06 Sep 2012
As Julian Assange divides a confused left, Paul DeMarty seeks clarity
Comment is not always free
16 Aug 2012
Why did The Guardian censor Israeli anti-Zionist Moshé Machover? Tony Greenstein investigates
And they call this sport
16 Aug 2012
The establishment intends to use the legacy of the Olympics to consolidate British national chauvinist ideology and ruling class values, writes Peter Manson
Consciously political
09 Aug 2012
Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
Artistic engagement
09 Aug 2012
Lawrence Parker reviews: Philip Bounds British communism and the politics of literature 1928-1939 Merlin, 2012, pp322, £18.95
Our sport and theirs
09 Aug 2012
Socialist Workers Party member Keith Flett contrasts todays corporate Olympics with the tradition of worker sport. This is an edited version of his speech to a CPGB London Communist Forum
Grasping the Olympic enigma
09 Aug 2012
The hype and nationalistic overkill is enough to put off even the keenest of sports lovers, writes Peter Manson. But the left needs to maintain a sense of balance
Establishment’s contradictory coup
02 Aug 2012
The Olympic opening ceremony represented another rearticulation of post-World War II British national identity, argues Eddie Ford
Another American tragedy
26 Jul 2012
Paul Demarty takes a look at the confused issue of arms in the USA
From Team Sparta to Team GB
26 Jul 2012
The ancient Greek Olympic Games, just like the modern equivalent, were part and parcel of class politics, writes Chris Gray
Doing it better than our enemy
26 Jul 2012
Many on the left see sport as nothing else than another way for the bosses to dupe the workers. Ben Lewis disagrees, and argues for a workers sport movement