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
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
A troublesome princess
01 Jul 2021
On July 1, the estranged princes, William and Harry Windsor, together with members of the Spencer family, will gather in the grounds of Kensington Palace to unveil a statue in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, by Ian Rank-Broadley. Commissioned in 2017 to mark the 20th anniversary of her death on August 31 1997, the unveiling coincides with what would have been her 60th birthday. Here we republish what Jack Conrad wrote for this paper on September 4 1997
No-platforming fraud
24 Jun 2021
Government proposals for legislation to ‘protect free speech’ in universities are part of the ongoing culture wars designed to please the rightwing press, argues Mike Macnair. This article is adapted from his June 20 Online Communist Forum talk
Dim end of the wedge
24 Jun 2021
The buffoonery of GB News’s first weeks should not be confused with failure, warns Paul Demarty
Paralysis of ruling elite
17 Jun 2021
The linkage between a frozen constitution, democratic decline and sexual rigidity is subtle yet powerful, argues Daniel Lazare
Lots of grassy knees
17 Jun 2021
Is the English football team in the grip of a Marxist conspiracy? Paul Demarty considers the ‘taking the knee’ controversy
Penny-pinching boosterism
10 Jun 2021
Lots of soundbites, no joined-up thinking. Derek James looks at the poverty of the latest ‘great debate’
Story built on lies
03 Jun 2021
David Douglass reviews 'Thatcher vs the miners: the battle for Britain', produced by Harry Bell and Brendan Hughes and broadcast on Channel 5
Flying saucers over Washington
03 Jun 2021
UFOs are back in the news again. Paul Demarty explores the cold war background and its exotic leftwing offshoots and variants
Diana and the demagogues
27 May 2021
Why the furore over an ancient interview? Paul Demarty looks at the renewed attacks on the BBC