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
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
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