Tag: equality
Publications
- The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
- Without Social Europe there can be no Social Britain in our lifetime
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- What is the 50p tax rate?
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Education, justice and democracy
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- In Place of Fear
- Duty to care
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
- Abolishing Want in a Social State
- Achieving a Social State
- Why Inequality Matters
Blog
- Low pay and increased job insecurity: the state of single parent employment
- The key to reducing inequality? Stronger trade unions
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Storify: Thomas Piketty in conversation with Lord Stewart Wood
- The significance of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- A Primer: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Why Class is hosting Thomas Piketty
- To tackle the Great British Rip Off, we must end zero-hours contracts
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- Fair pay: cracking down at the other end of the income ladder
- The housing crisis could become a disaster. Time for intervention
- Why soaring wage inequality in the UK should worry everyone
- Why Britain needs to end hunger fast
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Paying the highest price: Austerity will accelerate area health inequalities
- Why the world needs a payrise
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- What is the most pressing issue for British women today?
- We need action to reduce the costs of childcare
- Inequality – not just bad, it’s bad economics too
- Mutual Housing Offers More than Markets
- Hopeful signs in the labour market, but things remain a long way from normal
- Trade unions must be at the heart of the debate on living standards
- The Living Wage Commission will examine the reality of low pay in Britain
- BRIEFING: the 50p tax rate
- Avoiding Davos
- Britain’s monetary system, like our sanitation system, is a public good
- Where are the stories about in-work poverty?
- What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- The British left can be empowered by Obama’s speech on the economy
- Responses to the Autumn Statement
- Looking ahead to the Autumn Statement
- Unpaid internships are unfair and elitist – it’s time they ended
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
- There are some things too important to be left to the market
- There is a feasible and popular alternative to austerity
- Households are being excluded from the benefits of growth
- Instead of blaming ordinary people we should be explaining the reasons for falling living standards
- The market is broken
- Attacks on legal aid will mean access to justice is only for the rich
- Austerity - there can be no compromise with a failed idea
- The Socialist Way
- No real economic change will be felt until income inequality is reduced
- How the Government is creating a climate of fear for migrants and ethnic minorities
- The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
- The Spending Review: nasty politics not real economics
- Flawed political economics are behind the calls for fiscal conservatism
- The Spirit Level Film - the story so far
- In place of fear: It’s time to tackle alarming health inequalities
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- The case for a Land Value Tax
- Involuntary idleness represents a massive waste of economic resources
- We need to challenge the myths that poison attempts at progressive change
- Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS
- A budget speech of a chancellor who is trapped
- It’s time for new priorities to tackle want
- Investment in social housing - the best way out of today’s squalor
- Class politics and the media - breaking through the barriers
- Reviving the Beveridge vision of a Social State
- Blacklisting: the scandal continues
- Stop pushing people into poverty and get serious about job creation
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- Social State: Who are the real scroungers?
- Social State: The Most Important Part of the Welfare State: The NHS
- Social State: Austerity - An Exercise in Divide and Rule
- Social State: Exploding the scrounger myth
- Social State: The return of squalor
- Social State: Reclaiming Education for All
- The Austerity Strategy Has Failed - March for A Future That Works
- This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
- It’s easy to dismiss predistribution as a gimmick but what does it actually mean?
- Does inequality matter?
Latest news
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- New Class-YouGov poll released today shows that most people are not benefitting from the recovery
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class and Red Pepper launch first in a series of mythbusters: Exposing the myths of welfare
- Class and LSE Politics blog host lively debate on the Social State
