IWCA
- 18 May 2008
ByIWCAIWCA asks why the Labour Party tried so hard to unseat their candidates in the recent council elections.
- 11 Apr 2008ByIWCA
The Independent Working Class Association takes issue with what they call ‘the inept political strategy of multiculturalism’.
- 25 Mar 2008ByIWCA
The Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) takes a look at the prejudices behind the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’.
- 07 Feb 2008ByIWCA
The IWCA on the increasing inequalities in Britain’s education system.
- 20 Dec 2007ByIWCA
New Labour’s latest plan to improve education misses the elephant in the room by failing to address the unequal and fiercely competitive society that has had such a disastrous impact upon Britain’s children, writes the IWCA.
- 21 Nov 2007ByIWCA
The ICWA on the grinding poverty that is a daily reality for thousands of families in Britain, which boasts one of the highest rates of child poverty in the industrialised world.
- 27 Oct 2007ByIWCA
The IWCA on a recent poll revealing that, politically uncomfortable as it may be, most people still view class as an important factor shaping British society.
- 25 Oct 2007ByIWCA
The Indendent Working Class Association on a recent survey of dental patients, which reveals a disturbing picture of healthcare in Britain.
- 06 Sep 2007ByIWCA
The Independent Working Class Association on the neo-liberal philosophy behind the current crises of personal debt and socio-economic inequality.
- 01 Aug 2007ByIWCA
The government have committed to building three million new homes by 2010/11, including 210,000 classed as “affordable”. And at 70,000 affordable houses a year, write the Independent Working Class Association, a rough estimate reveals that it will take 32 years just to meet the current 1.6 million backlog.
- 21 Jul 2007ByIWCA
The Independent Working Class Association comment on the implications of the recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Britain’s soaring levels of inequality.
- 15 Jul 2007ByIWCA
The real scandal at the heart of the MRSA crisis is that it is an entirely man made, ideological phenomenon, write the Independent Working Class Association.
- 10 Jul 2007ByIWCA
If Brown’s first speech in Manchester is anything to go by, write the Independent Working Class Association, the new boss is cut from same neo-liberal tree as his predecessor.
- 26 Jun 2007ByIWCA
A recent ‘YOU GOV’ poll rightly placed Tony Blair at ‘right of centre’, while at the same time the perception of his Chancellor of ten years, Gordon Brown, remains steadfastly left of centre. The Independent Working Class Association reflect on this widespread misapprehension.
- 21 Jun 2007ByIWCA
The working class is not withering away, write the Independent Working Class Association – indeed wherever you choose to look, a plethora of statistics demonstrate again and again that class is as divisive and decisive as ever.
- 07 Dec 2005ByIWCA
The increasing upward social mobility of the Black and Asian population is used to obscure class barriers.
- 12 Oct 2005ByIWCA
What started out as a genuine concern within working class communities about the rise in the number and severity of instances of anti-social behaviour being carried out by young people on our estates, has now been hijacked by the right-wing media and elevated into a cultural witch hunt of working class youth.
- 09 Sep 2005ByIWCA
Contrary to liberal arguments, Blair has always said what he means and means what he says. Which is precisely what makes him and New Labour such a formidable enemy of the working class.
- 08 Sep 2005ByIWCA
Damien Dempsey is one of a number of artists whove gradually begun to break the stranglehold that manufactured Boy Bands and Pop Idols had put around the Irish record industry in recent years. He is not afraid to comment on the social and political issues that affect his people, his community.
- 01 Sep 2005ByIWCA
The heaviest tax burden is steadily being imposed on that section of the population who could not despite the political pretence ever be classified as middle class.