Over the past decade, the private sector has been utilised to step up attacks on the welfare state and to profit from providing services. The Welfare Reform Act is one such example of Labour’s neoliberal tendencies argues Robert Stevens.

Ian Sinclair offers a sympathetic but critical review of Sinners/Scroungers/Saints – an exhibition on lone motherhood currently showing at the Women’s Library in London.

The two leading parties’ claims about reducing the number of people receiving incapacity benefits are detrimental not only to those claiming the benefits, but also to the working population as a whole, writes Richard Seymour.