"In our new welfare contract our message is simple. Do the right thing and we will back you all the way but fail to take responsibility and the free ride is over" - A New Welfare Contract, the Conservative Party (2010).
Low-paid workers in the Global South are often dismissed as powerless. But Bangladeshi garment workers are leading a fightback.
"The Tories can reduce the deficit without a rise in VAT," boasted George Osborne to the Daily Telegraph on 6 April. "The plans we set out involved around 80 percent of the work coming from spending restraint... The tax increases are already in place and the plans do not include an increase in VAT."
The budget was a big gamble for the ruling class. The government has gone on an all out assault against the working class.
The first budget of the "progressive" coalition government saw George Osborne promise massive cuts for the poorest in society while offering tax relief for businesses, writes Danny Dorling.
After taking a short break to allow their friends in the Nazi British National Party (BNP) to have a free hand in the general election, the racist English Defence League (EDL) are once again back on the streets.
Online polling company YouGov has become a staple for much of the media, but how reliable is it?
BP may not have been able to plug the oil leak from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but it's good at plugging its own brand.
After the recent suicides of ten Foxconn workers, Li Qiang reports on conditions at the iPhone sweatshop.
What made our photographs on Bloody Sunday so important was the fact that there were only two photojournalists on the spot, myself and the Frenchman Gilles Peress, when the Paras came in shooting and killing.
On 31 May Israeli commandos attacked a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza, killing nine people and injuring dozens more. Kevin Ovenden from Viva Palestina recounts the horror of the attack and gives his views on building a movement that can lift the siege of Gaza.
On 20 April a massive explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused the deaths of 11 workers and precipitated one of the most catastrophic oil spills in history. Mark Bergfeld argues that this disaster is a result of the rapacious plundering of the environment by companies like BP.
