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No end in sight on UK wage squeeze as three quarters of workers expect to be poorer in 2018

21 February 2018

CLASS Statement on Budget 2017

21 November 2017

May wrong to forget workers on boards – new research from CLASS

2 October 2017

CLASS responds to Taylor review

11 July 2017

CLASS Factsheet: Excessive Pay Levy

16 May 2017

Press Release: Statement on CLASS’ Excessive Pay Levy Used in Labour Party Manifesto

16 May 2017

The ‘White Working Class’ Label is Harming the White Working Class

21 March 2017

CLASS Statement on Spring Budget

8 March 2017

CLASS Director Dr Faiza Shaheen named Observer Rising Star of 2017

21 February 2017

The Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class): Brexit generation face uncertain future

24 August 2016

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to EU referendum result

24 June 2016

Class announces Faiza Shaheen as new Director

1 February 2016

Download your guide to the best fringe meetings at Labour Party Conference 2015

18 September 2015

Reclaiming aspiration - key figures on the left respond to the current debate

25 August 2015

Eminent economists denounce Osborne’s budget surplus plan

15 June 2015

79 leading economists attack Osborne’s plans to entrench a permanent budget surplus

12 June 2015

Think tank says downgrade in growth forecasts is a response to the threat of further austerity

8 June 2015

PRESS RELEASE: Selling off Royal Mail is hugely counterproductive for the stability of the economy

4 June 2015

PRESS RELEASE: The Education and Adoption Bill will entrench social inequality

4 June 2015

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) condemns government reforms to trade unions

28 May 2015

Leading progressives put forward far-reaching policies for the first 100 days of government

29 April 2015

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to new figures on food bank use

22 April 2015

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to Labour’s Youth Manifesto

17 April 2015

Conservative plans to extend Right-to-Buy to housing associations will intensify housing crisis

14 April 2015

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to Cameron’s announcement on apprenticeships

9 April 2015

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to Labour’s non-dom announcement

8 April 2015

Academics condemn Coalition’s economic legacy

1 April 2015

Class responds to the launch of Labour’s new Work Manifesto

1 April 2015

Class responds to Ed Miliband’s speech launching Labour’s business manifesto

30 March 2015

Read all about the Class Election 2015 Series: What’s at stake?

27 March 2015

Class Conference 2014: The Film

26 November 2014

Work with us - new job vacancy for a Project Support Officer

24 November 2014

Class Conference 2014: The Photos

18 November 2014

Class Conference 2014: The Highlights

4 November 2014

New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries

29 October 2014

New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries

29 October 2014

Guide to conference sessions and debates

28 October 2014

Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to Eurostar sell off

13 October 2014

Policy experts say housing must dominate Labour’s election manifesto

7 October 2014

Think tank calls for a radical rethink of the role of local government

18 September 2014

Class at Labour Conference: Download our Progressive Fringe Guide

17 September 2014

Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference

25 July 2014

Think tank says privatisation of services has consistently led to lower outcomes

16 July 2014

Think tank says UK is “out of step” with the rest of the world by shunning public ownership

9 July 2014

Thomas Piketty to debate top advisor to Ed Miliband in parliament

12 June 2014

The National Curriculum is failing our children

17 April 2014

General Secretary of European TUC and lead MEP candidate call for renewed Social Europe

15 April 2014

Work with us - new job vacancy for a Projects and Events Officer at Class

15 April 2014

Renowned economist calls for European Green New Deal to tackle Europe’s economic instability

10 April 2014

Think tank calls for progressives to take on Europe’s far-right parties

10 April 2014

Can the EU deliver for working people? Leading progressives debate the arguments

3 April 2014

The PFA and the BFAWU support Class

3 April 2014

We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events

28 February 2014

The government has done almost nothing to address the fundamental causes of the financial crisis

26 February 2014

The NUM and the FEU support Class

28 November 2013

New poll reveals nearly 4 in 5 Britons feel they are not personally benefitting from economic recove

11 November 2013

New Class-YouGov poll released today shows that most people are not benefitting from the recovery

1 November 2013

Think tank criticises academies system for entrenching social inequality

17 October 2013

Class gains backing from the Musicians’ Union

15 October 2013

Work with us - new job vacancy for a media and communications officer at Class

19 August 2013

Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference

24 July 2013

Class launches new policy library resource for trade unions and researchers

23 July 2013

Class launches new policy library resource for trade unions and researchers

23 July 2013

Think tank calls for action against rip-off payday lenders

11 July 2013

Class holds North West launch & commits to giving working people in the UK a strong political voice

24 June 2013

Health inequalities widen as rising mortality and falling life expectancy buck long-term trends

20 May 2013

It’s time for a political response to attacks on universal health care

14 May 2013

Challenging vested interests in land must be central to tackling the housing crisis

13 May 2013

The National Union of Teachers supports Class

30 April 2013

Class and Red Pepper launch first in a series of mythbusters: Exposing the myths of welfare

9 April 2013

Podcast now available - Achieving a Social State @ LSE

21 March 2013

Class – Budget spokespeople

20 March 2013

Class and LSE Politics blog host lively debate on the Social State

14 March 2013

Class and Child Poverty Action Group call for new priorities to tackle poverty

13 March 2013

John Hendy QC joins the panel for the Achieving a Social State event

5 March 2013

The housing crisis – Time for a heavy dose of realism

5 March 2013

Zoe Williams paper launches new Class series – A Social State for 2015

25 February 2013

CWU supports Class

19 February 2013

Class launch new project on policies for a 2015 Social State

29 November 2012

Re-defining Beveridge’s Giant Evils – Charting an Alternative Course for the Welfare State

29 November 2012

Class launch in Parliament to a packed house

1 November 2012

Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch

23 October 2012

Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference

22 October 2012

New CLASS publication challenges politicians to put inequality back on the agenda

7 September 2012

Shadow Housing Minister Jack Dromey MP responds to Policy Exchange call for sale of social housing

23 August 2012

Audio recordings from Class economics seminar now available

13 June 2012

British voters back Hollande’s anti-austerity agenda

24 May 2012