The food crisis in the poor world and the problems of overconsumption and waste in the richer world cannot be resolved without addressing the global corporate food system. This is the real root cause, says Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

War on Want condemns the Prime Minister’s ‘Business Call to Action’ on global poverty, for including corporations which have been responsible for deepening global poverty.

While the government has dithered, low-paid, insecure employment has flourished like some rapacious mould. Madeleine Bunting reports.

Britain’s social recession is having effects which are every bit as painful and unsettling as those suffered during an economic downturn. Jonathan Rutherford reports.

The Morning Star looks at the impact on the poor of Gordon Brown’s last budget as Chancellor.

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

John McDonnell on New Labour’s failure to adequately deal with child poverty, a failure the new budget will do little to address.

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.

The perpetual state of desire that we call ‘human nature’ is very particular, for it demands conformity with the nature of capitalism. Jeremy Seabrook reports.

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

In 2001, the government announced a target to eradicate fuel poverty for all vulnerable and low-income households by 2010. In fact, says Peter Reydt there are now about 4.4 million people affected by fuel poverty – and the fault is with the corporations that are raking in the profits.

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.

Gordon Brown’s threat to close ‘failing’ schools is a body blow against schools in the poorest areas. Terry Wrigley reports.

Julian Dobson suggests that only by addressing the way we have chosen to live shall we manage to tackle poverty.

Calls for increased stop-and-searches of young black people are inconsistent and fail to take note of a wider context of deprivation, writes Chuka Umunna

Thousands of people whose application for asylum has been declined are now living destitute in Britain. Many of them have chose a life of abject poverty in the UK to the torture they fear they will face if they return home. Britain doesn’t care.