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
Defeat of syndicalism
10 Sep 2020
David Douglass reviews Ian Wright's "God’s beautiful sunshine: the 1921 miners’ lockout in the Forest of Dean"
Great questions of our time
10 Sep 2020
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group discusses David Graeber’s ideas and activism
Worse than useless
04 Sep 2020
Too little, too late. James Linney takes apart the Tories’ so-called ‘obesity strategy’
Prom and prejudice
04 Sep 2020
As the BBC finally agrees to allow a select group of vocalists to sing ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘Land of hope and glory’, Harley Filben takes stock of musical nationalism
Racism and jealous gods
13 Aug 2020
Overweening taboos on certain slurs do nothing to aid our understanding of racism, argues Paul Demarty
Prodigal son departs
06 Aug 2020
James Murdoch’s departure from his father’s media empire puts the spotlight once again on its political evolution, writes William Kane
Lost Tribe of Judah
30 Jul 2020
We have to learn to live with offensive ideas and statements, argues Eddie Ford - whether they originate from Wiley and the Black Hebrews, mainstream Zionism or Judeo-Christianity
Wrongly overlooked thinker
23 Jul 2020
David Broder reviews Pietro Basso's 'The science and passion of communism: selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)'
Without it we can’t breathe
23 Jul 2020
Anne McShane explains why the ‘cancel culture’ is so badly misdirected
Roll call of shame
16 Jul 2020
Huge numbers have died unnecessarily, writes Eddie Ford, yet still we have the rightwing ideology of Covid denial
Not just one idiot historian
09 Jul 2020
Slavery involved the loss of life on a staggering scale, and it was bound up with the capitalist mode of production, writes Eddie Ford
Contradictions of Zionism
09 Jul 2020
Tony Greenstein reviews Daphna Levit's 'Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish voices of dissent'
Power of child-like logic
09 Jul 2020
Without a centralised leadership BLM risks playing into Trump’s hands, argues Daniel Lazare
Recolouring the past
02 Jul 2020
Jesus was not white, that is for sure. But then nor was he a Christian, says Eddie Ford. He was an apocalyptic revolutionary who hated the Roman empire and its collaborators
Unrecyclable threat
25 Jun 2020
Jim Moody reviews Deia Schlosberg’s The story of plastic