The family Follow

The family is deeply contradictory

The Marxist tradition offers a guide to challenging women’s ­oppression

Labour won't scrap cap on child benefits

Hark the cash tills ring

Underlying the sexism women experience is a structural oppression based on women’s role in the family, exacerbated by austerity, writes Jan Nielsen

Socialist Review spoke to Rosie Cox about the hidden work of au pairs, inequalities in the family and how neoliberalism makes life unbearable.

The pioneer of psychiatry began as an advocate of the oppressed, documenting the effects of trauma on mental health. But he soon switched sides to justify the status quo, writes Susan Rosenthal.