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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

Weaponising Covid

06 Feb 2025

CIA claims that Covid-19 emerged from a Chinese government-run lab have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with an attack on the poorest in the world, maintains Ian Spencer

Firewall and hot air

06 Feb 2025

Migration is the number one issue. While almost all parties are marching to the right ahead of the February 23 general election, Die Linke’s slight move to the left might well justify a critical vote, argues Carla Roberts

Truth is a malleable thing

30 Jan 2025

Pat Taylor reviews Erik Kahn Canned goods Southwark Playhouse (ends February 8)

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

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