Drawing on the detailed research of their book ‘New Labour/Hard Labour? Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry’, |Alex Law & Gerry Mooney draw “attention to some of the many ways in which welfare workers are being adversely affected by the restructuring of the welfare state and, more importantly, how they are resisting New Labour in new and significant ways.

Review of ‘Telling the Truth: The 2006 Socialist Register’.

Think-tank Demos merely advances a variation on the old conformism, rather than a meaningful solution to working-class pessimism in Scotland and elsewhere.