A review of City of God
[Workers Power Britain, March 2003]
Climate change: a global warning
[Workers Power Britain, May 2000]
March 2000 was the fourth warmest March since accurate records began in 1880. April was the wettest this century. Now predictions are that this century mean temperature could rise by 8 degrees. What is going on?
Nature as Marx intended
[a review of Lifelines: Biology, Freedom and Determinism by Steven Rose]
Dialectical materialism may have been the method used by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to understand how the world works and how to change it, but it has a bad name among scientists, and understandably so. As the official ideology of the corrupt Stalinist dictatorships, "dialectical" gobbledegook was used to justify anything and everything, as long as it satisfied the parasitic needs of the bureaucracy, whatever the cost in terms of human lives or culture.
Euro 2000; the money game
[Workers Power Britain June 2000]
This month television screens across the continent will be dominated by Euro 2000. This footballing feast involves much more than just watching men kick a ball around.
Marxism versus postmodernism
[Trotskist International 24, 1997]
If there is a late 20th century zeitgeist – a spirit of the age which pervades culture, academic thought and politics – it is to be found in the ideas grouped under the banner of postmodernism. A Marxist critique of postmodernism has to challenge its intellectual core and uncover its material roots.
Copyright & intellectual property: Who owns our ideas?
[Workers Power Australia, March 2000]
No to DNA criminal databases!
[Workers Power Australia, May-July 2000]
DNA testing is fast catching on in Australia, as state and federal governments seek to show that they are 'getting tough on crime'.
London's millennium dome – a large corporate tent
The Millennium Dome is New Labour’s ideology projected into the soul-less space of a trade fair. It combines all the tacky insincerity of Blairism with all the shoddy showmanship of the UK private sector, writes Paul Morris.
Trotsky, revolution and culture
Geraldine Drayton and Warren Gropper review "Culture and revolution in the thought of Leon Trotsky"
Film and Freedom
An interview with socialist film-maker Ken Loach
Taking sides in the science wars
The class struggle is, as well as strikes and protests, a battle of ideas. And a battle is currently raging between post-modernist "radicals" and scientific defenders of the status quo. Jack Tully makes sense of the science wars that have gripped the USA, and argues that socialists must be at the forefront of a critical defence of science
