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
Accountable police?
28 Apr 2022
Dave Vincent reviews 'Deep deception: the story of the spycop network, by the women who uncovered the shocking truth' by Helen Steel (Ebury Press, 2022, pp400, £20)
Out of sight, out of mind?
21 Apr 2022
Rwanda deal is a cynical election ploy, writes Eddie Ford
No quick fix
14 Apr 2022
Mimicking the sun and producing power using nuclear fusion has long been a dream and it appears that will be the case for a long time to come. Yassamine Mather explains
Westminster is main culprit
17 Mar 2022
Anne McShane is appalled by the systemic institutional abuse that took place in the children’s homes of Northern Ireland over decades. But why has the UK government been let off the hook?
Working women find a voice
10 Mar 2022
Anne McShane looks at 'Rabotnitsa', first published by the Bolsheviks on February 23 1914 to mark International Women’s Day
An unsafe technology
10 Mar 2022
Russian shelling near the Zaporizhzhia plant is a stark reminder of the inherently dangerous nature of nuclear power, warns Eddie Ford
Get out of Zionist ghetto
24 Feb 2022
Communists say national liberation is a task of the working class. Tony Greenstein takes issue with the left Zionism of Daniel Lazare
Complex and chaotic
24 Feb 2022
It seems that freak weather events are becoming increasingly normal, writes Eddie Ford
Abstraction and obfuscation
10 Feb 2022
Paul Demarty reviews 'Anti-Postone', an essay written by Michael Sommer and translated by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press, 2021, pp124, £11.99)
Behind Israeli apartheid
10 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it
Rightwing ‘Marxism’- a senile disorder
03 Feb 2022
Michael Sommer’s 2014 essay 'Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective' has recently been translated into English by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press 2021, Available on Amazon or in the Cosmonaut webstore). A more than useful contribution to the fightback against the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie, which finds its most ‘sophisticated’ justification in the pseudo-Marxist writings of Moishe Postone. Here is the introduction provided by Mike Macnair
From right to right
27 Jan 2022
Yassamine Mather investigates some of the well-paid ‘independent’ experts and journalists who constantly appear in the western media
Clarifying the Arab Spring
27 Jan 2022
Fouad Mami reviews 'The republic of false truths' by Alaa Al-Aswany (Faber and Faber, London 2021, pp464, £12.79)
Heroes and villains
20 Jan 2022
Lawrence Parker reviews 'The chronology of revolution: communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain' by Ben Harker (University of Toronto Press, 2021, pp376, £63.99)
Civilisation in jeopardy
13 Jan 2022
Extreme weather is becoming typical weather, writes Eddie Ford, and the cause is undeniable: capitalism