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
Sex and the human revolution
23 Nov 2006
Socialist Worker has begun a series of articles by Sally Campbell. They purport to explain the origins of women's oppression. However, there exists an obvious lacuna in her account. If women became unfree, when and how did they become free? Camilla Power of the Radical Anthropology Group insists that sex played a big role in the human revolution - a taboo subject for the SWP
No bans on christian fundamentalists
23 Nov 2006
James Turley reports on the bureaucratic attempt to ban Exeter university's christian student society
Absolutely insane
16 Nov 2006
Simon Wells reviews Helen Caldicott's book Nuclear power is not the answer, New Press, 2006, pp221, £13.99
Fiddling while planet Earth burns
02 Nov 2006
Simon Wells reviews George Monbiot's Heat: how to stop the planet burning Penguin, 2006, pp276, £17.99
Go home and write to your MP
02 Nov 2006
The October 29 student demonstration against the further marketisation of higher education was uninspired and timid. Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson report
Behind the red flag
02 Nov 2006
Lawrence Parker takes a closer look at the artist Ken Loach
Secular schools, not religious indoctrination
02 Nov 2006
Communists fight for the equality of believers and non-believers, says Jim Moody
Development needed
02 Nov 2006
Change and climate inseparable
02 Nov 2006
Climate change and the necessity of communism
02 Nov 2006
No to market solutions. Jack Conrad explains why capitalism is the problem
The limits of green politics
26 Oct 2006
Green politics have caught on in a big way. Jack Conrad explores their contours, limitations and contradictions
Victims or workers?
19 Oct 2006
At its October 7-8 conference, the Scottish Socialist Party opposed the unionisation of sex workers and agreed to support legislation for the sex industry only if it is "designed to eradicate prostitution". For the SSP, the liberation of sex workers must be delivered from above. Ana Lopes of the International Sex Workers Union believes differently
A good beginning
28 Sep 2006
Ted North explains what Communist Students, the newly established national organisation sponsored by the CPGB, has been up to
The power of reason and the market
28 Sep 2006
Simon Wells is not impressed by the market solutions to climate change advocated by Al Gore in Davis Guggenheim's film An inconvenient truth
Benedict XVI and the struggle for Europe
21 Sep 2006
There is more to the pope's Regensburg speech than a crude attack on islam. Jack Conrad investigates