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Image: Michael Fleshman (CC BY-SA 2.0) Gregory White (University of York) Frances Fox-Piven is an academic, commentator and author, and, arguably, one [...]

Photo by Andrew Sayer   Andrew Sayer We simply cannot afford to ignore the rich, given their extraordinary rise over the last 30 [...]

Photo with permission of World Development Movement Luke Martell (University of Sussex)   A US president gets in cahoots with corporations and European [...]

Daniel Edmiston (University of Leeds)   Austerity has captured the political imagination of Europe and is being used to challenge the capacity [...]

Roger Jeffery (University of Edinburgh)   In May 2014, to the surprise of many commentators, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party – the BJP [...]

Laurence Cox (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (University of Bergen)    ”Fight, fight! Water is a human right!” This [...]

Image: European Parliament William Outhwaite, University of Newcastle Last September, under this rather curious image, the European Parliament launched an information campaign [...]

James Hampshire, University of Sussex For once, the ‘historic’ cliché seems appropriate. Last month, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) won [...]

Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster As India faces the prospect of voting into power in May 2014 of a Hindu majoritarian [...]

Ailsa McKay, 1963-2014 Given that social security policy is currently reserved to Westminster, the reform debate in Scotland has been focused [...]