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
Fighting the drugs war
08 Jan 1998
Capitalism and slavery
18 Dec 1997
This article is based on a speech given at Communist University ’97 by Robin Blackburn, author of ‘The making of New World slavery’
Jesus: man and Myth
18 Dec 1997
Christian doctrine portrays Jesus as a creepy, other-worldly figure; a man-god utterly indifferent to the savage occupation of the Jewish homeland by imperial Rome. But Jesus did not die in order to fulfil some divine plan. Nor was he betrayed by the Jewish people. Jesus was no ‘Christian’, writes Jack Conrad, but an apocalyptic revolutionary whose message was universal human liberation
Tatchell outraged at homophobia in SLP
18 Dec 1997
Fight homophobia
11 Dec 1997
The issue of gay rights is a controversial one in the SLP. Here Peter Tatchell speaks to Mark Fischer about the fight for gay liberation
German students streik
11 Dec 1997
Style and reality in LA
27 Nov 1997
Andrew MacKay reviews 'LA Confidential', directed by Curtis Hanson
Homophobic SLP hustings
27 Nov 1997
Students resist
20 Nov 1997
Fight oppression not ‘prejudice’
20 Nov 1997
Postive and negative
20 Nov 1997
Universal lessons
13 Nov 1997
Nick Clarke reviews Bill Findlay's 'The Weavers' (from the original by Gerhart Hauptmann)
When the fat lady sings
13 Nov 1997
English National Opera
Bowing to chauvinism
06 Nov 1997
Friend of October
06 Nov 1997
On the 80th anniversary of the Russian Revolution Eddie Ford reviews the work of a commentator who became a partisan. ('Morgan Philips Price Dispatches from the revolution: Russia 1916-18', Pluto Press 1997, pp181)