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
Confidence and conscience clauses
29 Apr 2010
Around 120 people attended the 'Women's question time' organised by Tower Hamlets Respect on Wednesday April 21. Ben Lewis was among them
Aiming to consolidate
22 Apr 2010
Communist Students remains united despite controversial debates, reports Liam Conway
World-historic defeat of women
22 Apr 2010
Should the Neolithic be celebrated as a 'farming revolution'? Or mourned as a male-led counterrevolution against matrilineal communism? Lionel Sims wields the archaeological evidence against the archaeologists
It was right to put safety above profits
22 Apr 2010
James Turley argues that there is more to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano than disruption to tourists
The obligation and means to resist tyranny
15 Apr 2010
Eddie Ford disagrees with the preaching of pacifism and legalism dressed up in anti-fascist clothing
Subtle messages
08 Apr 2010
A Hopi member reviews Jafar Panahi's film Offside
Church on the ropes
01 Apr 2010
Pope Benedict XVI claims he is being targeted by a malicious smear campaign. Anne Mc Shane disagrees. The Catholic church is guilty of a criminal cover-up when it comes to child abuse
Police ran riot in Bolton
25 Mar 2010
The mobilisation against the English Defence League was attacked and kettled by a well planned police operation. Sinead Rylance and Chris Strafford report
Pope's Irish child abuse letter met with walkouts
25 Mar 2010
Anne Mc Shane argues that Ireland needs not less but more secularism. The clerical state must go
Wiping away a tear
25 Mar 2010
Charlie Pottins reviews Shappi Khorsandi's A beginner's guide to acting English London 2009, pp330' £11.99
Good Manchester results
18 Mar 2010
Chris Strafford reports on an artistic and engaging campaign
Rehabilitation not revenge
18 Mar 2010
James Turley takes on the reactionaries whipping up hysteria over the age of criminal responsibility
March 8
11 Mar 2010
On International Women's Day, women were at the forefront of the fight against the Islamic regime, writes Tina Becker
SUPPLEMENT: Extraordinary double-act of Noam Chomsky
11 Mar 2010
When the brain reached a certain level of complexity or when a mutation took place in the genetic instructions it received, the facility for language was installed. This is the myth which suited both the US military-industrial complex and Chomsky's anarcho-syndicalism. Chris Knight examines the paradox
University fightback
11 Mar 2010
Keith Gray reports staff and student opposed to budget cuts at the University of Sussex