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
Covid-19 and how to fight it
26 Mar 2020
Jack Conrad presents a communist response to the combined health and economic crisis
Responding to catastrophe
19 Mar 2020
Paul Demarty looks at the strengths, and limits, of the left’s response to the coronavirus.
Class and women’s liberation
12 Mar 2020
Like anti-racism, International Women’s Day has been colonised by the bourgeoisie, writes Eddie Ford.
It is a pandemic
12 Mar 2020
The number of cases outside China has increased 13-fold over the last two weeks alone, says James Linney.
Rubbish tip of a world
29 Feb 2020
Bong Joon-ho (director) 'Parasite' 2019, general release.
Zionism and anti-Semitism
23 Feb 2020
Stanley Heller 'Zionist betrayal of Jews, from Herzl to Netanyahu' self-published, 2019, pp147. Available from Middle East Crisis Committee, Box 3626, Woodbridge CT, 06525, USA, for a donation of $10 or more.
Crisis at the top
23 Feb 2020
Paul Demarty asks what the expulsion of Manchester City from Europe means for a sport married to mega money.
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