Sex and the human revolution

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at the transition from ape to human and quantity into quality, plus the importance of language, counter-dominance and sex in the human story. This is an edited version of the speech he gave to the CPGB’s Communist University in August

The way I distinguish science from ideology is quite simple. If the knowledge gives certain people power but not others, it is ideology. So all kinds of racism, sexism and crap bourgeois ideology might give certain people power, but at the expense of the rest of us. ... more

Letters
Disappointing; Draconian; Age of consent; Youth U-turn; Written out; What tactic?; Doomed

Leeds workers on the front line
If the City Council gets away with impoverishing this group of workers, it will be encouraged to take the hatchet to others, writes Jim Moody

Establishment unity
James Turley calls for a powerful workers’ movement needs to offer a real political lead in challenging the power of the capitalists

Opposing the cuts consensus
Peter Manson spoke to Labour left MP John McDonnell about next week’s Labour Party conference, the general election and beyond

Looking to Lisbon to end the crisis
Use the referendum as a platform to call for working class unity in Europe, demands Anne Mc Shane

Mass protests re-ignite
Yassamine Mather calls for support and solidarity for workers in Iran

English Defence League stunts and the real lessons of the 1930s
Calls for state, local government, and BBC censorship and bans will inevitably backfire against the workers’ movement, argues Ben Lewis

Expensive bunch of nothing
Imperialism - with the US being the absolute hegemon - threatens to annihilate civilisation, writes Eddie Ford

Spellcheck
Robbie Rix asks asks for support for a space where leftwingers can have their say

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Keep you posted!

Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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