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
True fake news
16 Mar 2017
Perhaps there is another agenda lurking behind Trump’s travel ban, muses Mike Macnair
Worse than it appears
16 Mar 2017
Why go for open privatisation when you can quietly administer concealed poison? James Linney describes the reality of underfunding
Divisions over unity
09 Mar 2017
Squabbles in the British anti-Trump campaign say much about the forces involved, reckons Paul Demarty - and little of it good
Toilet-paper labour
09 Mar 2017
Thomas Klikauer reviews: David Macaray, 'Night shift - 270 factory stories', CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015, pp360, $17.99
All or nothing
09 Mar 2017
Erdoğan is going for bust in an attempt to cling onto power, writes Esen Uslu
Mayakovsky and the avant garde
09 Mar 2017
What was the truth about Soviet art? Rex Dunn looks at the real reasons behind its decay
Huge demo boosts fightback
09 Mar 2017
After the ‘biggest ever’ pro-NHS event, writes Peter Manson, what we need now is winning politics
Zionist attack on free speech
09 Mar 2017
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign must oppose bogus definitions of ‘anti-Semitism’, argues Tony Greenstein
What was Straight Left?
09 Mar 2017
Lawrence Parker investigates the political origins of Jeremy Corbyn’s director and deputy director of strategy and communications
The inferno erupts
02 Mar 2017
The struggle for women’s liberation cannot be left to the feminists. The Russian Revolution shows that women’s liberation and the struggle for socialism are inseparable, argues Anne McShane
Return of the killer air
23 Feb 2017
Tinkering measures cannot halt pollution, writes Arnulf Solberg
Flee, die or receive baptism?
16 Feb 2017
Rex Dunn reviews: Mihail Sebastian, 'For two thousand years', Penguin Modern Classics, 2016, pp231, £9.99
It ain’t necessarily so
16 Feb 2017
Who fears ‘fake news’ - and what is their own relation to the truth? Paul Demarty pulls apart the current hysteria
Put not your trust in judges
16 Feb 2017
The fall of Michael Flynn involved not litigation, but threats of prosecution. But, if Trump is in fact brought down by the same scandal, it will not be leftwing litigation that does it, but the creation of a cross-party and inter-bureaucratic political coalition. And the result, if so, argues Howe Cheatem, will be president Pence and a new and rapid war drive
Slow moving car crash
16 Feb 2017
Support for article 50 is a failure of both principle and strategy, writes Tony Greenstein