Society & Culture > Anthropology
World-historic defeat of women
19 Apr 2012
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group examines myths about a supposed "primitive matriarchy"
Royalist nationalism, opposition prophets, and the impact of exile and return
05 Aug 2010
Jack Conrad concludes his survey of Ancient Israel (supplement III)
Peasant socialism and the persistence of polytheism
29 Jul 2010
Jack Conrad continues his survey of Ancient Israel in Supplement II
Religion, class struggles, and revolution in ancient Judea
22 Jul 2010
Jack Conrad examines Ancient Israel (supplement)
Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' in social and historical context
24 Jun 2010
Chris Gray concludes his study of Homer's world-shaping epic.The full version will soon be available from the CPGB website in pamphlet form
Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Bronze Age collapse
17 Jun 2010
The full version of Chris Gray's study of the two seminal works of ancient Greek literature will soon be available from the CPGB's website in pamphlet form. Here we begin a two-part abridged version
Rivalling the Romans
06 May 2010
Chris Gray reviews Richard Miles's 'Carthage must be destroyed: the rise and fall of an ancient Mediterranean civilisation' London 2010, pp521, £30
SUPPLEMENT: Extraordinary double-act of Noam Chomsky
11 Mar 2010
When the brain reached a certain level of complexity or when a mutation took place in the genetic instructions it received, the facility for language was installed. This is the myth which suited both the US military-industrial complex and Chomsky's anarcho-syndicalism. Chris Knight examines the paradox
Anti-Marxist myth of our time
04 Feb 2010
Chris Knight examines Noam Chomsky's 'scientific' fairy tales about language and its origins
Dawkins and Dennett defended
28 Jan 2010
Bob Potter takes issue with Jack Conrad and dismisses primitive communism as make-believe
Origins of religion and the human revolution - pt2
17 Dec 2009
Jack Conrad gives his assessment of some of the main theories and asks what apes can teach us
Origins of religion and the human revolution - pt1
17 Dec 2009
Jack Conrad gives his assessment of some of the main theories and asks what apes can teach us
Determinist regurgitation
07 Feb 2008
Simon Wells refutes the 'discovery' of political genes
Space, the final frontier?
08 Mar 2007
Going to the moon and space travel and are back in the news, writes Jack Conrad. But the left would be daft to fall for the sci-fi hype
Roots of modern morality
01 Mar 2007
Born into a wealthy family in Florence on May 3 1469, NiccolಠMachiavelli was educated in the classical tradition of his class. Later he developed close relations with the ruling elites both in Italy and other parts of Europe. He gained a profound insight into statecraft: how rulers rule. After the Medici family regained power in Florence in 1512, Machiavelli retired from political life and took up the pen. Most famous of all his books was The prince (Il principe) which was published five years after his death in 1527. It caused outrage amongst church circles and brought 'Machiavellian' into the popular lexicon - a pejorative term for one who deceives and manipulates others for personal gain. Gerry Downing seeks to put the record straight
Chomsky's parallel lives
25 Jan 2007
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group concludes his examination of a political enigma