WeeklyWorker

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

Ugly truth about feeling ugly

03 Mar 2016

Our society encourages low self-esteem and unhealthy attitudes towards food, writes Commissaress - and the results are not pretty

Anti-Semitic smears employed by right

03 Mar 2016

The Labour left must get better organised, argues Gary Toms of Labour Party Marxists

Last hurrah of a psychopath

03 Mar 2016

Toni Negri, 'Storia di un comunista', Milan, 2015, pp608, €18, reviewed by Toby Abse

Review: Just a writer of women’s fiction?

18 Feb 2016

Rex Dunn reviews Rachel Cusk,'Outline', Vintage, 2014, pp249, £8.99

Drugs are not the problem

18 Feb 2016

Prohibiting legal highs marks an escalation in the crazy ‘war on drugs’, says Eddie Ford

The strange death of liberal media

18 Feb 2016

The Independent is Britain’s first major print casualty of the digital age, and probably not the last, writes William Kane

A spy in the house of drudge

11 Feb 2016

Geoff Andrews The shadow man: at the heart of the Cambridge spy circle IB Tauris, 2015, pp276, £20

How to leave your kid in a pub

04 Feb 2016

The government’s latest attempt to pretend it knows a thing or two about children is laughable, says Commissaress

Dealing with the legacy

04 Feb 2016

Artist and empire: facing Britain’s imperial past Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1; ends April 10

Origin of language lies in song

28 Jan 2016

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group examines one of science’s most intriguing unsolved problems. This is an edited transcript of a talk given to Communist University in August 2015

Money spinning cargo cult

07 Jan 2016

Jeremy Hunt reviews, JJ Abrams (director) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12A), 136 minutes, general release

Peace out, man

17 Dec 2015

The response of young people to the government’s decision to bomb Syria came as a welcome surprise to Commissaress

The great escape

17 Dec 2015

As a line is drawn under the phone-hacking scandal, William Kane looks at the lessons

Using any stick, using any trick

17 Dec 2015

Eddie Ford welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s defence of the Stop the War Coalition

A contested Jesus

17 Dec 2015

Respect the longevity of Christianity, but, says Jack Conrad, separate myth from reality

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