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
Manufacturing consensus
02 Sep 2021
We do not want to unite the whole of the anti-racist movement, if that means uniting all prepared to mouth anti-racist platitudes. In fact, writes Paul Demarty, so far as such ‘unity’ exists, our role is to destroy it
For your eyes only
12 Aug 2021
Paul Demarty assesses the dangers of Apple’s new surveillance measures against child sex abuse
Reasons for Afghan debacles
12 Aug 2021
Daniel Lazare reviews: Rodric Braithwaite ‘Afgantsy: the Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89’ Oxford University Press, 2011, pp448, £10.28; Artemy M Kalinovsky ‘A long goodbye: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan’ Harvard University Press, 2011, pp290, £22.95; Bruce Riedel ‘What we won: America’s secret war in Afghanistan, 1979-89’ Brookings, 2014, pp189, £17
Centrality of class independence
12 Aug 2021
Khomeini and the clergy completely outmanoeuvred the left. But it need not have been that way. In his second and concluding article on the role of oil workers in the 1979 revolution, Peyman Jafari stresses the complex nature of ideology and class consciousness
Code red for humanity
12 Aug 2021
The IPCC report is out and what it says is grim, says Eddie Ford: major climate change is ‘inevitable’ and ‘irreversible’. Objective circumstances cry out for the left to agitate, educate and organise around a far-reaching minimum programme to prepare the working class to take power on a global scale
Unnatural disaster
05 Aug 2021
A combination of scorching heat, greed and a warmongering government has resulted in widespread fires. Esen Uslu reports from Turkey
Through a feminist filter
05 Aug 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Ethel Rosenberg: a cold war tragedy' by Anne Sebba
At the tipping point
05 Aug 2021
Can the bourgeoisie be forced to adopt climate socialism? Highly unlikely, but we should not rule it out in principle. Eddie Ford highlights the necessity of a minimum programme
False dichotomy
29 Jul 2021
Ollie Douglas reviews 'Marxism and intersectionality: race, gender, class and sexuality under contemporary capitalism' by AJ Bohrer
Generation Left terrifies right
29 Jul 2021
Eddie Ford calls upon Marxists to take up the challenge to organise the socialist majority of young people
Pandemic to pingdemic
22 Jul 2021
Boris Johnson’s ‘Freedom Day’ did not exactly go as planned. In fact it was a fiasco. Despite that, Eddie Ford warns of an early general election
Masks for Freedom Day
15 Jul 2021
Derek James has no time for the government’s mixed messaging or Starmer’s constructive opposition
What did England expect?
15 Jul 2021
Following narrow defeat at the hands of Italy, the meaning of it all is being hotly fought over. Paul Demarty urges the left to think beyond gesture politics
Grim warning from Canada
08 Jul 2021
Heat domes and devastating fires are ominous portents of runaway global warming. Eddie Ford warns that the future looks bleak - unless the working class organises to replace capitalist class rule at the global level
Politics not as usual
08 Jul 2021
After Batley and Spen, Derek James reports on debates over Labour’s prospects and amending our programme