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
Art for our class
17 Jan 2019
Mike belbin reviews Christine Lindey Art for all: British socially committed art from the 1930s to the cold war Artery Publications, 2018, pp240, £25
Preparing the final assault
17 Jan 2019
James Linney examines the fraud that is NHS England’s ‘long-term plan’
Our rights threatened too
17 Jan 2019
Although Britain’s far-right yellow vests are an obnoxious assortment of racists, xenophobes and odd-balls, we must defend their right to protest, says Eddie Ford
The will to liberate
10 Jan 2019
Neglect of the woman question in the early Soviet republic was not the result of isolation and economic backwardness, argues Anne McShane
Competition and cooperation
06 Dec 2018
Review of 'Elinor Ostrom’s rules for radicals' by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2017, pp160, £16.99
Islamophobia and free speech
06 Dec 2018
The Muslim Council of Britain now wants its own version of the IHRA definition, which for Eddie Ford can only be bad for freedom of expression
Whatever happened to peak oil?
06 Dec 2018
Prices are down to a 10-year low. It is clear that dire predictions of exhausted reserves and the world running out of oil were thoroughly misconceived. Jack Conrad returns to the issue of energy
Sport and common endeavour
29 Nov 2018
Is there something more to chess than the desire to win? Peter Manson thinks there is
Environmental crisis is real
15 Nov 2018
We cannot prevent climate disaster by denying the existence of the problem, argues Daniel Harvey
Marxism and aestheticism
08 Nov 2018
Despite Marx’s throwaway remark, Capital is not a ‘work of art’, argues Rex Dunn
Review: 22 July, directed by Paul Greengrass
18 Oct 2018
Out on general release and Netflix
Capitalism is the cause of, not the solution to runaway climate change
18 Oct 2018
The system cannot be managed more efficiently to halt global warming, argues Michael Roberts
A new ship with a new crew
11 Oct 2018
Behind the Brett Kavanaugh scandal Rex Dunn sees the decline of capitalism and a fragmented feminist movement that fails to recognise the necessity of socialism
With the grain of the times
11 Oct 2018
Yet more scandals - but Trump stands firm. Paul Demarty urges a more radical reckoning with American politics
Forgotten communities
04 Oct 2018
Review of Garry Lyons' The last seam, directed by Daljinder Singh