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
Occupation and oppression
09 Feb 2006
Carey Davies reviews Romans in Britain, which has again been subject to religious criticism. Crucible Theatre, Sheffield (ends Saturday February 25)
Cuckoos in the nest
09 Feb 2006
The Campaign Against Climate Change looks set to grow in 2006, writes John Downes. But where is it going programmatically?
Two tales of child abuse
02 Feb 2006
Don Williamson reviews BBC's When Satan came to town, an unsettling documentary about social workers obsessed with the idea that a whole working class estate in Rochdale was experiencing ritual satanic child abuse
A caring Zionism
02 Feb 2006
Carey Davies reviews Steven Spielberg's Munich
Revisiting colonial horrors
02 Feb 2006
Louise Whittle reviews Michael Haneke's stunning new film Hidden
No champion of the oppressed
02 Feb 2006
Socialists should not celebrate Hamas's victory in the Palestinian elections. Women and secular forces will very likely be the first to suffer, says Katherine Quinn
What's principle got to do with it?
02 Feb 2006
At the 'Defy section 9' conference in Manchester, the comrades from the SWP again tried to prevent the meeting from taking principled positions on the question of immigration, reports Dave Isaacson
Tragedy, hoaxes and Zionism
26 Jan 2006
Norman Finkelstein Beyond chutzpah: on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history Verso 2005, £16.99, pp332
Trouble on the beach
26 Jan 2006
A month after race riots in Sydney, Marcus Ström points to a crisis in official multiculturalism in Australia
Class struggle in the house
26 Jan 2006
Dave Craig assesses George Galloway's three weeks of 'reality' TV
Prometheanism and nature
19 Jan 2006
Technological Prometheanism and capitalism's profit-driven degradation of nature: Jack Conrad puts the case for revolutionary Prometheanism and sustainability
Victims and victimisers
19 Jan 2006
Eddie Ford takes a look at the latest round of hysteria over 'nonces' and 'perverts' in the educational system
Domination theology
12 Jan 2006
Paul Greenaway reviews Richard Dawkins's The root of all evil? (Channel 4, Monday January 9 and 16, 8pm)
Faith schools too hot for SWP
12 Jan 2006
The left must takes this issue seriously, says Michelle Euston. After all, faith schools are envisaged in the government's white paper on education as a wedge to break up comprehensive education system
Less than gorgeous
12 Jan 2006
Is it possible for working class politicians to utilise an established cultural form, designed for a completely different purpose, in order to bolster an oppositional message? Lawrence Parker takes a look at Galloway in the Big brother house