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
Drill, Kemi, drill
04 Sep 2025
Global warming could possibly switch off the Gulf Stream in our lifetime, making the UK a pretty miserable place to live. Yet the Tory leader wants us to ignore this and max out oil and gas production, writes Eddie Ford
Artificial intelligence, human flourishing
04 Sep 2025
AI is, we are told, an investment bubble waiting to burst, but what role, if any, should AI play in socialist society? And what role does it play in today’s world? Paul Demarty explores the complex issues
Trying to capture the flag
04 Sep 2025
Groups of rightwing men want to plaster their towns with the Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags. Should the left respond, asks Harley Filben, by inventing its own version of patriotism?
Documentary gem
28 Aug 2025
Bob Davies reviews Carlos Underwood (director) No-one is illegal; every day tomorrow limited release
The road from Eton College
28 Aug 2025
Seventy-five years after his death and eighty years after the first publication of Animal farm, Paul Flewers introduces his seven-part exploration of George Orwell’s life, works and politics
Corporates are complicit
28 Aug 2025
Firms such as BCG and Microsoft are up to their necks in Israel’s genocidal crimes, writes Eddie Ford. Unsurprisingly workers are expressing their outrage
Abomination of imperialist war
21 Aug 2025
Séamus Ó Muadaigh reviews Mark O’Connor (director) Amongst the wolves (currently streaming on Prime Video)
Nature’s goods and services
24 Jul 2025
Despite talking about protecting the natural world and condemning capitalism for bringing about climate catastrophe, there are still those on the left who take it for granted that the working class produces everything. Jack Conrad spells out the ABCs of Marxism
Fragmenting Syria
24 Jul 2025
Israel’s intervention in Syria to protect the Druze minority is part of an ambitious geostrategic plan to redraw borders and extend its influence to the Euphrates and into Iraq, says Yassamine Mather
Cashing in on obesity crisis
10 Jul 2025
Weight loss drugs feature regularly in the media. They work in the short term, but what about the long term? And what about the side effects? James Linney looks at the background and provides the answers
Profitably poisoned cabins
10 Jul 2025
Jim Moody reviews Tristan Loraine and Sandra Skibsted (directors) This is your captain speaking (screened at 2025 Raindance Film Festival). Distribution awaited
Well done Kneecap and Bob Vylan
03 Jul 2025
Stand for solidarity, stand for unrestricted free speech. Anne McShane denounces the witch-hunting of brave artists who have dared use their music to protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza
Scientists warn of peril
26 Jun 2025
Heat can be a bigger killer than floods and storms. Within three years we could pass the symbolic 1.5°C limit, but we do not need technological fixes that might well make things worse, writes Eddie Ford
Philosophy in the ordinary world
05 Jun 2025
Alasdair MacIntyre died on May 21 2025. Though journeying from Calvinism to Marxism and then, finally, to Catholicism, he retained a gut commitment to the working class. Paul Demarty offers a critical appreciation of an extraordinary mind that opened so many doors
Trans rights and open polemic
29 May 2025
We are obliged to fight opportunism in all its varieties. To avoid that fight is a form of opportunism in itself. Ian Spencer reports on the May 25 aggregate