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
Reform at the crossroads
26 Mar 2026
Have we reached ‘peak Farage’? Perhaps, argues Paul Demarty. But, whatever the fate of Reform, the drift to the right is likely to continue. Lining up with the centre is no answer - independent working class politics is needed
One-dimensional men
19 Mar 2026
Louis Theroux’s latest documentary has sparked perplexed commentary in the liberalosphere. Why is the tacky world of masculinist influencers so attractive to so many young men? Paul Demarty gives us his take
Selling the Torygraph
12 Mar 2026
Its readership remains stubbornly of pensionable age. Its journalism has become more and more stupid. With ‘AI transformation’ on the agenda, Paul Demarty expects a further descent into worthless slop
When Saturday comes
05 Mar 2026
As club owners have ceded control over the terms and conditions under which elite players sell their labour-power, they have tightened their grip over the labour process. Peter Kennedy discerns an ongoing class struggle
Sinking into the gutter
05 Mar 2026
Labour ran a low-life campaign against the Greens in Gorton and Denton, saying that under them playgrounds would be ‘turned into crack dens’. Eddie Ford takes a rather more principled position
Going beyond protest politics
19 Feb 2026
On the one side, almost exclusively made up of the right and far right, there are those who blindly argue that global heating is not happening, or if it is, it is no big deal. On the other side, almost everyone else. So what is to be done? Bill McGuire takes a look at Jack Conrad’s The little red climate book
Burn, baby, burn
19 Feb 2026
Yet another study shows the climate system rapidly approaching multiple tipping points, writes Eddie Ford. Meanwhile the US president is criminally chucking more fuel onto the fire
What’s up, doc?
12 Feb 2026
Doctors are leaving in droves. It is not just that Australia, New Zealand and Canada look more attractive. There is, says James Linney, the push factor too. Labour is proving to be little different from the Tories
Spreading panic and confusion
12 Feb 2026
Alex Callinicos is playing a cynical opportunist game when he compares the situation in Minneapolis with fascist terror in Italy. He wants to excuse the Together popular front, writes Eddie Ford
A little flame snuffed out
29 Jan 2026
Paul B. Smith reviews M Farrar and K McDonnell Big Flame: building movements, new politics Merlin Press 2024, pp356, £30
Freedom comes with thorns
29 Jan 2026
Australia has done it, France has done it too, the Tory frontbench and teaching unions want to do it, the government might do it. They all want to ban under-16s using social media. But should we go along with such kneejerk draconian restrictions? We certainly should not, argues Baris Graham
March to the right
22 Jan 2026
Robert Jenrick’s defection, Reform UK’s consistent lead in opinion polls and talk of Nigel Farage being the next prime minister - all pose urgent challenges for the left. Going ever broader, tailing celebrities, joining a Stop Reform coalition will not do, writes Eddie Ford
Drawing a clear red line
15 Jan 2026
Zionism is an inverted form of racism. Pro-Zionists should not be in an explicitly anti-Zionist organisation. Jack Conrad urged the Socialist Unity Platform to stand by its agreed principles
Man of his times?
08 Jan 2026
The ascendancy of a young, sexless neo-Nazi with legions of internet fans has caused a political crisis in the American right. What explains the rise of Nick Fuentes and his ‘Groypers’? Paul Demarty investigates
Involution and plan
08 Jan 2026
China’s 15th five-year plan is big on artificial intelligence. It will be diffused into every sector of the economy. Meanwhile, because it does not follow the ‘western model’, Michael Roberts argues, the country can plan investments and sustain high growth rates