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
Danger of barbarism
09 Dec 2021
Invisible to the eye, viruses and bacteria make up a good percentage of the global biomass. They also shape history. HIV/STD specialist and Marxist Mohsen Shahmanesh discusses microbes and human society. This article is based on his talk to the November 28 Online Communist Forum
How not to lead a liberation
25 Nov 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Fordsburg fighter: the journey of an MK volunteer' by Amin Cajee, as told to Terry Bell (Cover2Cover Books, 2016, pp194, £22.09)
The past as future
25 Nov 2021
We must return to original communism, but on a higher level. Jack Conrad concludes his series of articles by questioning both brutish and romantic images of pre-modern society
On the dark side
18 Nov 2021
Jack Conrad explores the commonalities and connections between greenism and the right and far right
Sit down and plan it
11 Nov 2021
School students and young women have been in the forefront. Tam Dean Burn reports from the Glasgow marches and meetings
They will not deliver
11 Nov 2021
Market solutions are no solution. Michael Roberts castigates the sham, the hollowness of climate finance
No saving graces
11 Nov 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis: what the left got wrong and how to learn from it' by David Renton (Routledge, 2021, pp230, £19.99)
Rebels without the means
11 Nov 2021
Jack Conrad takes a hard look at the demands, principles and inherent limits of Extinction Rebellion
All workers lose out
11 Nov 2021
With the Democrats going downhill fast, Daniel Lazare looks at the role played by ‘critical race theory’
History and hagiography
11 Nov 2021
Saints and sinners. Paul Demarty assesses the Greta Thunberg phenomenon
Bitter fruit of imperialism
04 Nov 2021
Islamist jihadism is a modern, not an ancient, phenomenon. Yassamine Mather looks at causes, social roots and terrible consequences
Greenism: a rough guide
04 Nov 2021
Jack Conrad explores the organisations, history, business models, aristocrats, royal agendas and class limits
Malthus painted green
28 Oct 2021
Are there too many people? Jack Conrad attacks crude overpopulation theories. They are more than useless: they are extraordinarily dangerous
A 2.7 degree wake-up call
28 Oct 2021
The UK government’s response is woefully inadequate. So keep your expectations about Cop26 really low, advises a worried Eddie Ford
Long march of censorship
28 Oct 2021
Paul Demarty looks at recent attacks on free speech in the name of combatting offence, real or imagined