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World-historic defeat of women

19 Apr 2012

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group examines myths about a supposed "primitive matriarchy"

Science and collaboration

17 Oct 2013

The ‘standard model’ has been confirmed, writes Anthony Rose. But it is not only Peter Higgs who should be celebrated

Anthropology: Engels was right

12 Sep 2013

In April Sheila McGregor’s ‘Marxism and women’s oppression today’ was published in the Socialist Workers Party’s International Socialism. The journal declined to carry this response from radical anthropologist and SWP member Lionel Sims

Elaine Morgan: Debt of gratitude

01 Aug 2013

Chris Knight remembers the woman who saw off the ‘savanna hypothesis’

Anthropology and women: Genetic evidence is richer than the stale party line

11 Jul 2013

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group investigates the SWP’s impoverished debate on the Marxist theory of women’s oppression

Women and liberation: Is feminism a dirty word?

14 Mar 2013

What would Marx and Engels think of recent events in the SWP, RMT and across the British left? Camilla Power of the Radical Anthropology Group takes to task ‘dinosaur Marxists’ for refusing to treat rape as a deeply political issue

Anthropology: Reclaiming the dragon

24 Jan 2013

What was primitive communism? Socialist Workers Party member Lionel Sims explores the meaning of the Eden myth and its significance for women’s oppression

Drugs: Irrational war continues

20 Dec 2012

Nick Clegg is calling for a royal commission. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, demands immediate legalisation

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

Supplement: Early human kinship was matrilineal

20 Sep 2012

Engels was right, says Chris Knight

World-historic defeat of women

19 Apr 2012

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group examines myths about a supposed "primitive matriarchy"

Primitive communism, barbarism and the origins of class society

09 Feb 2012

Socialist Workers Party member Lionel Sims identifies both errors and the profound truths discovered by Engels in his 'Origins'

Science and the square wheel

26 Jan 2012

James Turley is not impressed by the resurfacing of 'male aggression' myths

Sex, symbolism and neanderthals

19 Jan 2012

Not only did the neanderthals interbreed with our ancestors. These close cousins help shed light on what it is to be human, argues Camilla Power of the Radical Anthropology Group

What made us human

22 Dec 2011

Simon Wells reviews Chris Stringer 'The origin of our species' Allen Lane, 2011, pp333,

Putting revolution back on to the agenda

14 Jul 2011

Mark Kosman argues that anthropological and historical evidence provide reasons to be optimistic about the future. But if we are to move forward in the 21st century it is necessary to rethink all aspects of the Marxist, feminist and anarchist traditions

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