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
Democracy and republic
13 Feb 2020
Ben Lewis (editor and translator) "Karl Kautsky on democracy and republicanism" Historical Materialism series No196, Brill, 2020, £121, pp352.
Bats, panic and system failure
13 Feb 2020
What are the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak? How can the spread of this and other new viruses be stopped? James Linney gives some answers...
Salvini, Israel and anti-Semitism
09 Feb 2020
In Italy IHRA-style propaganda is linked to anti-migrant racism, writes Toby Abse.
Proud Trotskyists
31 Jan 2020
Sylvia Riley "Winter at the bookshop, politics and poverty: St Ann’s in the 1960s" Five Leaves Publications, 2019, pp147, £7.99.
The new ‘party of order’
31 Jan 2020
Paul Demarty asks what the Wuhan outbreak has to teach us about the political moment.
Optimism of the intellect ...
09 Jan 2020
Review: The responsibility of intellectuals: reflections by Noam Chomsky and others after 50 years, edited by Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight and Neil Smith (UCL Press 2019, pp142, £13.80)
Premonition of the future
09 Jan 2020
Australia’s fires are a perfect illustration of the environmental crisis facing the planet, writes Eddie Ford
Land and the rentier economy
19 Dec 2019
Brett Christophers The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain Verso 2018, pp384, £20
An apocalyptic revolutionary
19 Dec 2019
According to official Christian doctrine, Jesus was a man-god, born in a stable to a virgin mother. His first worshippers were three humble shepherds, followed by three kings from the east bearing fabulous gifts. As an adult Jesus performed serial miracles. Misunderstood by his closest disciples, betrayed by Judas Iscariot, the Jewish people collectively sought his death. Crucified by the innocent Romans, Jesus is entombed, but after three days rises from the dead. Finally, he ascends into heaven to sit on god’s right side. Jack Conrad offers a more probable version of the man and his times.
Outcome uncertain
06 Dec 2019
Looking at the latest polls, Eddie Ford concludes that it is not impossible for Labour to win the most seats.
Inconvenient truths
28 Nov 2019
Rather than the Labour Party, it is Christianity which is ‘institutionally anti-Semitic’, writes Eddie Ford.
Reason to be proud?
09 Nov 2019
While apartheid is long gone, writes Peter Manson, what do we say about the ‘rainbow nation’ that has replaced it?
Reactionary by nature
09 Nov 2019
The case of the 39 migrants from Vietnam who froze to death in the back of a refrigerated lorry, when trying to enter Britain, has once again highlighted the need for a principled working class response.
Problematic Tory assumptions
31 Oct 2019
Jonathan Sumption 'Trials of the state: law and the decline of politics' Profile Books, 2019, pp112; £9.99
Book they want to ban
31 Oct 2019
Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Anthony Lerman, David Miller 'Bad news for Labour: anti-Semitism, the party and public belief' Pluto Press, 2019, pp288, £14.99