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Right wing MPs fear falling social mobility could undermine support for the free market system, writes Sadie Robinson

Also: LSE cleaners insist they are not second class

More people may be in work but full-time positions are getting harder to find. Behind the figures, Alistair Farrow finds that bosses are making employment work for them—not us

Theresa May has confirmed that her Tory government’s first central policy will be to bring back grammar schools. Sadie Robinson talks to people who experienced the much-hated system first time round

Reforming capitalism is not the same as socialism, argues Sadie Robinson. Another society is possible—but can only come about through a revolution by working class people

Tony Garnett, producer of Cathy Come Home, talks to Sadie Robinson about battling BBC bosses, representing working class life and why we need socialist change

The junior doctors' strikes raise questions about how socialists should define the working class.

Roddy Slorach’s new book A Very Capitalist Condition puts forward a Marxist analysis of disability. Sadie Robinson looks at how its insights can help activists in the fightback

Nick Clark takes issue with Labour right wingers’ simplistic and patronising view of what it means to be working class

A recently published report by the London School of Economics, Moving the Goalposts, looks at the impact of austerity and growing inequality on young people’s participation in sport and play activities. Not surprisingly, it makes grim reading. Austerity has led to increasing levels of poverty in Britain and this is being felt particularly by the...

A rise in the numbers of self-employed people in Britain raises interesting questions for Marxists about the changing nature of the working class.

The system pushes workers to fight back and struggles can unexpectedly break out—but as Sadie Robinson argues, that doesn’t mean we should simply sit back and wait