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
Beginnings informed by the past
11 Jun 2015
John Summers All for nothing Studio1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, London E2, June 5-28 2015, Wednesdays to Sundays, 12 noon to 6pm
Legalise the lot
11 Jun 2015
The Tories think it is a good idea to put a blanket ban on legal highs. Paul Demarty wants some of what they’re smoking
Their corruption and ours
04 Jun 2015
Paul Demarty is shocked - shocked! - to discover financial impropriety at the top of world football
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