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
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
Storms and teacups
25 Feb 2010
Both the media and bourgeois politicians want us to concentrate on personal strengths and weaknesses. But that is not the main issue, argues James Turley
Establishment impotence fuels climate denial
18 Feb 2010
Capitalism and sustainability do not mix, says James Turley
When the sweets were taken away
18 Feb 2010
Craig Wilson reviews David Douglass's The wheel's still in spin : Read and Noir : 2009, pp466, £12.95
Who will build the nation?
18 Feb 2010
Alan Fox reviews Clint Eastwood's 'Invictus' (on general release)
Motherhood and apple pie
11 Feb 2010
Laurie McCauley reports on last Saturday's surprisingly positive conference of leftwing student activists
Right to a dignified life - right to a dignified death
11 Feb 2010
The comfort and self-respect of the incurably ill and the dying must be ensured, writes Eddie Ford
Anti-Marxist myth of our time
04 Feb 2010
Chris Knight examines Noam Chomsky's 'scientific' fairy tales about language and its origins
Dawkins and Dennett defended
28 Jan 2010
Bob Potter takes issue with Jack Conrad and dismisses primitive communism as make-believe
Demonisation by deranged media pack
28 Jan 2010
Eddie Ford argues against the demonisation of children
Ecology and economism
21 Jan 2010
Ben Lewis reviews Martin Empson's Marxism and ecology: capitalism, socialism and the future of the planet Bookmarks, pp32, £1.50
In the very fabric of art
21 Jan 2010
In his rejection of practice that prioritises cooperation over competition, Hans Werner Henze conspires with a system he claims to oppose, writes Gordon Downie
Johnson's bans are an attack on us all
21 Jan 2010
Oppose the ban on Islam4UK, writes Eddie Ford
Delusion, distractions, dialectic
14 Jan 2010
Mike Belbin reviews James Cameron's new blockbuster 'Avatar'