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
Saved by the collective
23 Jan 2025
Gavin and Stacey finally came to an end with a feature-length festive finale over Christmas. The sitcom attracted more viewers than Charles Windsor. Mike Belbin discusses a phenomenon
Civilisation on the brink
23 Jan 2025
Actuaries issue a stark warning. Between 2070 and 2090 the global economy faces a 50% loss due to ecological shocks. Eddie Ford argues that this has profound consequences for the sort of socialism we envisage
Where the Tories left off
16 Jan 2025
The ‘elective reform plan’ clearly indicates that NHS privatisation and general deterioration will continue under this current iteration of government, writes James Linney
Rockets and ressentiment
09 Jan 2025
What on earth is he up to? Paul Demarty investigates the life and times of a half-mad billionaire
Blowing in the wind
12 Dec 2024
One poll has Reform UK ahead of Labour, writes Eddie Ford, with talk of Elon Musk giving $100 million to the party in a bid to make Nigel Farage Britain’s Trump
The festive utopia
12 Dec 2024
A collision of two worlds: on the one side, the dingy, foggy London in cold midwinter, and on the other, a fantastical world peopled by spirits. Paul Demarty, in an unusually cheerful mood, revisits Charles Dickens’ A Christmas carol
Slave to the gift economy
12 Dec 2024
What is the meaning of Christmas? Who is Father Christmas? What is the political economy of his Christmas operation? Jack Conrad provides some answers, but, above all, welcomes elvish resistance
Slope really is slippery
28 Nov 2024
Legalisation of assisted suicide is not progress, argues Paul Demarty, but rather gives capitalism free rein to throw the seriously ill in the trash-can
Your health, comrade
28 Nov 2024
Physical and mental health is central to the communist project. Not only would people be healthier in a communist society, writes Ian Spencer, but such health would help deliver the full realisation of human potential
Continuing the decline
28 Nov 2024
After 14 years of Tory austerity the health service has been left broken. But can Wes Streeting fix things? James Linney lambasts his idea that league tables are part of the solution
Cabinet of curiosities
21 Nov 2024
Warmongers, kleptocrats, sex pests - but above all cronies. Paul Demarty looks ahead to an already fractious Trump front bench that will, in all probability, churn with remarkable speed
An unpalatable choice
21 Nov 2024
With a February 23 general election agreed, German society is set to move right, reports Carla Roberts
Drill, baby, drill!
14 Nov 2024
Trump wants to both max out oil production and pull out of the Paris Accords, writes Eddie Ford - bad news for a planet already experiencing record-high temperatures
His movement lingers on
14 Nov 2024
Widely presented in the west as a champion of ‘moderate’ Islam, within Turkey he was condemned as a terrorist. Esen Uslu looks at the life and times of Fethullah Gülen
Trans liberation and Marxism
14 Nov 2024
Ranging from sci-fi thought experiments to the latest theoretical disputes, Mike Macnair explains why class and building solidarity is vital