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
United front of the bourgeoisie
15 Jan 2015
Government leaders who gathered in Paris to express ‘solidarity’ with Charlie Hebdo are no friends of free speech, says Eddie Ford
Qui est Charlie?
15 Jan 2015
Paul Demarty asks, who exactly is Charlie?
The meaning of Jewish identity
08 Jan 2015
Shlomo Sand How I stopped being a Jew Verso, 2014, pp102, £9.99
Methods of social control
08 Jan 2015
In the age of ‘colour-blindness’, what accounts for the targeting of blacks by police? Jim Creegan critiques a recent influential book
Social mobility, my arse
18 Dec 2014
Recent propaganda in favour of grammar schools is nonsense, says Micky Coulter
The cauldron boils over
18 Dec 2014
Racial repression has provoked mass protest. Jim Creegan responds to the two high-profile killings by the US police
Neither meek nor mild
18 Dec 2014
Jesus was a rabbi, a communist and a brave revolutionary, argues Jack Conrad
To piece together what has been smashed
11 Dec 2014
Walter Benjamin Radio Benjamin Verso, 2014, pp389, £16.99
Playing on the fields of Eton
11 Dec 2014
The shadow education secretary has been accused of fighting the class war. Not true, says Micky Coulter, but Labour does have a class-based strategy
Mission Mars and the final frontier
11 Dec 2014
The successful Orion flight has revived dreams of returning to the moon or even going straight to Mars. Yet, no matter how marvellous the technology, Jack Conrad warns that the left would be ill-advised to cheer on the project
Reinvigorated spirit
27 Nov 2014
Russell Brand Revolution Century, 2014, pp384, £20
The beginning of new unionism
20 Nov 2014
Louise Raw Striking a light: the Bryant and May match women and their place in history Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, pp300, £17.99
The tyranny of safe spaces
20 Nov 2014
We cannot start from the premise of exclusion, argues Yassamine Mather
Coup that never was
13 Nov 2014
The campaign against Ed Miliband is part of a long tradition, writes Eddie Ford
The limits of journalism
06 Nov 2014
Nick Davies Hack attack: how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch Chatto and Windus, 2014, pp430, £20