Action/2015 calls on world leaders to face up to their choices
The Sustainable Development Goals set this year will determine what kind of world the next generation grows up in
Social Justice
Renewed calls for Living Wage sparked by 8.1 million people on inadequate income
Stagnating wages and job insecurity put households at risk of unacceptably low income, says new report
Do Tory benefit cuts impact on children’s rights?
A new report suggests that young people identify several infringements of their rights in George Osborne’s economic policies.
Lets not hear another word from the Pope on matters of greed
The Vatican is laden with priceless treasures, and has an investment portfolio of around $8 billion.
No justice for South Africa’s murdered activists
This weekend hundreds of international supporters will gather to protest the assassinations of South African housing activists.
Picturehouse staff are still being paid poverty wages
Picturehouse’s rising profits contradict their claim that they can’t afford to pay higher wages.
Benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare spending, new figures show
Benefit fraud accounted for just 0.7 per cent of welfare spending in 2013/2014, according to new government figures published today.
But isn’t Owen Jones a part of the establishment?
Reviewing Owen Jones’ new book, The Establishment, Carl Packman finds that what changes the British Establishment of today is merely the means with which they contain dissent
Elitism and social discrimination persist, but what is to blame?
We should be clear: schools, universities, and leading firms all have a part to play in the continuation of elitism and social class discrimination
Why we need to think again about suicide since Robin Williams’ death
Taking your own life is not easy. I know I’ve tried, and obviously failed. When you commit suicide you haven’t lost a battle with depression or illness or whatever it maybe. No, you have won – you have taken the final step away from an insoluble problem.