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
Jailbirds, extremists, and white power rock
06 Jan 2011
Maciej Zurowski argues that state bans only serve the ruling class. There must be freedom ... even for bad music and offensive lyrics
Old thinking and new bottles
06 Jan 2011
Paul Greenaway asks what the liberal media see in Laurie Penny and explains why Alex Callinicos is talking sense
Don't give in to the slurs
06 Jan 2011
Eddie Ford defends Clare Solomon against the rightwing press and its AWL outriders
Eggs vs truncheons
16 Dec 2010
The student movement in Turkey is militant, but mass involvement is hampered by a divided left, says Esen Uslu
Eyewitness in Whitehall
16 Dec 2010
Who caused the violence on the December 9 stop fees and cuts demonstration? Organised thugs and street gangs - as alleged by home secretary Theresa May? This first-hand account, written by a Labour Representation Committee activist, clearly shows that it was the baton-swinging riot police. They were well-organised and bent on confrontation
The Pagan winter
16 Dec 2010
Charles Dickens and his 'A Christmas carol' are routinely represented as a conscience-pricking call for charity at this time of the year. But, argues Harley Filben, there is more to the novel than that
Apathy or boredom?
16 Dec 2010
Ben Lewis reviews 'The Trotsky', Jacob Tierney (dir), Alliance Films (general release in Canada)
Tyneside bairn goes ghost dancing
09 Dec 2010
Tom Pickard reviews David Douglass's 'Ghost dancers: the miners' last generation part 3: Stardust and coaldust' Christiebooks, 2010, pp540, £12.95
Still not coming home
09 Dec 2010
Harley Filben looks at the furore surrounding England's failed bid for the World Cup
Police kettle student protestors yet again
02 Dec 2010
James Turley discusses the critical problem of organisation in the student movement
A Militant take on the Great Strike of 1984-85
25 Nov 2010
David Douglass reviews Ian Isaacs's 'When we were miners' Ken Smith Press, 2010, pp180, £7.99
From Stalinism to social democracy
18 Nov 2010
Chris Gray reviews Brian Hanley and Scott Millar's 'The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party' Penguin Books 2010, pp601, GBP9.99
Blaming unemployed for sin of unemployment
18 Nov 2010
The coalition government's 'welfare reforms' are a direct attack both on the jobless and on the working class as a whole, writes Eddie Ford
After Millbank: the way forward
18 Nov 2010
Communists have no truck with cowardly and hypocritical condemnations, writes James Turley
Capitalism cracked
11 Nov 2010
Andrew Coates reviews John Holloway's 'Crack capitalism' Pluto Press, 2010, pp320, £16