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
Dylan and the dead
13 Aug 2015
Bob Dylan’s electric set at the Newport Folk Festival 50 years ago continues to bring out the worst Stalinist inclinations of today’s left, writes Howard Phillips
The bitter taste of capitalism
13 Aug 2015
James Linney reviews Robert Lustig's 'Fat chance: the hidden truth about sugar, obesity and disease,' Forthestate, 2013, pp320, £8.99
Solidarity, not sectionalism
06 Aug 2015
Paul Demarty looks at the chauvinist backlash against the Calais migrants
The red and the green
30 Jul 2015
Ken Loach (director) Jimmy’s hall 2014.
Incorporation and commercialisation
02 Jul 2015
The annual Pride march was symptomatic of a divided LGBT movement, reports Daniel Harvey
Their culture and ours
25 Jun 2015
Exhibition What is luxury? Victoria and Albert Museum, until September 27 2015
Gone too tsar
25 Jun 2015
How should ‘disruptive behaviour’ in schools be tackled? Mickey Coulter comments on the tendency to look to newly empowered bureaucrats for a solution
Stoned and dethroned
18 Jun 2015
Paul Trynka Sympathy for the devil: the birth of the Rolling Stones and the death of Brian Jones Bantam Press, 2014, pp368, £16.99
Beginnings informed by the past
11 Jun 2015
John Summers All for nothing Studio1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, London E2, June 5-28 2015, Wednesdays to Sundays, 12 noon to 6pm
Legalise the lot
11 Jun 2015
The Tories think it is a good idea to put a blanket ban on legal highs. Paul Demarty wants some of what they’re smoking
Their corruption and ours
04 Jun 2015
Paul Demarty is shocked - shocked! - to discover financial impropriety at the top of world football
The Goldsmiths ideology
28 May 2015
The rightwing press campaign against Bahar Mustafa puts the parlous state of student politics under the spotlight, writes Paul Demarty
A gay day for equality
28 May 2015
Anne McShane celebrates the defeat of the Catholic church and calls for the battle for democracy to include the aim of socialism
Humans, nature and dialectics
07 May 2015
Sadly Marxism must be defended against some who claim to be Marxists, or at least sympathetic to Marxism. Jack Conrad shows that this is especially the case when it comes to attacks on Frederick Engels and his work on the dialectics of nature
Court protects Labour corruption
30 Apr 2015
After Lutfur Rahman’s removal as Tower Hamlets mayor, Paul Demarty calls for authentic local democracy