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
Contradictions laid bare
23 Apr 2015
There are two sides to South Africa’s ‘vibrant emerging market economy’. Peter Manson points to the underlying causes of the xenophobia
Victims of capitalism
23 Apr 2015
The needless death of hundreds of refugees puts the left to the test, says Tina Becker
Headlong into a trap
09 Apr 2015
After Socialist Resistance’s bungled intervention into transgender politics, Paul Demarty calls for serious debate - not trolling and trigger warnings
After the death of Jesus
02 Apr 2015
According to western Christian mythology, Jesus died on Good Friday and came back to life three days later on what we now call Easter Monday. But, argues Jack Conrad, Jesus and his first followers were not Christians, but Jewish revolutionaries. It was Paul who invented Christianity
Collaborators and the ANC
19 Mar 2015
Jacob Dlamini Askari Jacana Media (Johannesburg), pp305, R225 (£12.25)
Behind the Psycho drama
19 Mar 2015
Zoë Howe Barbed wire kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain story Polygon, 2014, pp306, £12.99
Funny is not the opposite of serious
19 Mar 2015
Terry Pratchett’s work and life was powered by a kindly moral anger, writes Eddie Ford
Natalie Bennett’s motley crew
12 Mar 2015
While the Green Party as a whole is not supportable, argues Robert Hayes, a small number of its candidates may be
Against feminism, for the working class
05 Mar 2015
Geraldine Duffy writes for International Women's Day in March 1985
An education fit for human beings?
26 Feb 2015
Micky Coulter analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the LU policy
Wrong kind of radicalisation
26 Feb 2015
How to explain the ‘teenage brides for IS’? Mike Macnair examines the phenomenon of hope in a disastrous illusion against the background of the left’s failure
Advertising and the decline of journalism
26 Feb 2015
The Telegraph’s HSBC scandal is an acute case of a malady suffered by all capitalist media, argues William Kane
As effective as a marzipan dildo
19 Feb 2015
Chris Atkins (director) Ukip: the first 100 days Channel 4, February 16
The new normal
19 Feb 2015
As Denmark becomes the latest staging ground for Islamist atrocities, Paul Demarty asks how the left can confront the growth of religious reaction
Thoughts on Karl Marx and art
12 Feb 2015
A communist revolution in art will break down the barriers between ordinary people and artists as specialist labourers under capitalism, says Rex Dunn