Why did Ken Livingstone lose the London Mayoral Elections and what are the implications for the class and race divide in the capital? Noah Tucker investigates.

The recent BBC White Season painted a bleak picture of the white working class in Britain today as bigoted and broken. Martin Smith argues that these stereotypes are encouraged by politicians and the media to divide us and are far from the experiences of working people’s real lives.

The Independent Working Class Association takes issue with what they call ‘the inept political strategy of multiculturalism’.

The Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) takes a look at the prejudices behind the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’.

Julie Hyland looks at the racist overtones of the BBC’s recent ‘White Season’ series.

The Independent Working Class Association looks at the increasing gap in life expectancy between different social classes.

The budget suggests that Brown and Darling have failed to recognise the cost of ignoring working-class alienation, argues Seamus Milne.

Award winning social documentary photographer Larry Herman spoke to Simon Basketter about his new project capturing the lives of hourly paid workers in the capital.

While white working classes are treated like zoo monkeys, the media pretends brown working class families don’t exist. Sunny Hundal reports.

_Gary Fraser argues that the left needs to move beyond abstract analyses of the causes of crime and develop a critique of actual criminal policy, with a view to developing alternatives. This is the more important because crime is, of course, overwhelmingly a working class issue.

The IWCA on the increasing inequalities in Britain’s education system.

Britain’s strange private school system causes immeasurable harm, says George Monbiot.

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.