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NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025

Child poverty forcing schools to pay for pupils’ beds and pillows, education leaders warn

17 April 2025

Britain / 27 March 2025

Child poverty hits record high

27 March 2025

Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about

Britain / 26 March 2025

Reeves launches ‘cruel attack on disabled people’ instead of taxing the super-rich

26 March 2025

Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement

Britain / 25 March 2025

Living in poorest parts of England can cost you 5 years of your life, analysis warns

25 March 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t

Britain / 29 January 2025

In work poverty ‘shockingly high,’ TUC warns

29 January 2025

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister walks in the direction of the biggest bosses

Britain / 27 January 2025

Poverty more rife in England last year than in the rest of Britain

27 January 2025

Britain / 6 January 2025

Working families are at greater risk of poverty than 20 years ago, research finds

6 January 2025

Britain / 29 December 2024

Union questions SNP vow to scrap two-child benefit cap on election year

29 December 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour Leader A

Britain / 27 December 2024

Scottish Labour challenged to stand with pensioners, not the Prime Minister

27 December 2024

A man rides a bicycle past Christmas decorations on a street

World / 22 December 2024

At least 32 killed in crowd crushes at Christmas charity events in Nigeria

22 December 2024

A basket of food at the Vale Pantry foodbank in Sturminster

Britain / 15 December 2024

Loneliness fuels surge in foodbank use alongside poverty, new report shows

15 December 2024

Stocks of food at the Trussell Trust Brent Foodbank, Neasden

Britain / 3 December 2024

Eradicate child poverty in 20 years, coalition of children's charities tell government

3 December 2024

RAPID RENEWAL: Changsha’s statue of Mao, the city at night

Features / 3 December 2024

China proves poverty can now be eliminated

3 December 2024

Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDWARDS

A photo of school girls walking to school

Britain / 25 November 2024

Government must reform Child Maintenance Service to tackle child poverty

25 November 2024

Britain / 25 November 2024

Most of Scotland backs more help for the poorest, new study shows

25 November 2024

Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with

Editorial: / 24 November 2024

A cruel campaign against benefit claimants won't solve Britain's health crisis

24 November 2024

Stocks of food, as one in three young people say their famil

World / 20 November 2024

Consultation launched on decriminalisation of rough sleeping in Northern Ireland

20 November 2024

The Trussell Trust calls on NI executive to act on hunger after 35,000 emergency food parcels were distributed across the six counties

Britain / 12 November 2024

Thousands more people dying in poverty in Britain, research reveals

12 November 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with representatives o

Editorial: / 5 November 2024

Starmer plays with fire on migration

5 November 2024

(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P

Britain / 1 November 2024

Majority of the public think Labour will fail to reduce poverty, study finds

1 November 2024

Finance Secretary Shona Robison at the Scottish Parliament,

Britain / 31 October 2024

Extra cash for Scotland will not scrap two-child cap, say SNP

31 October 2024

SNP Edinburgh South West Parlimentary candidate Joanna Cherr

Britain / 30 October 2024

Former SNP MP to lead pensioners' legal challenge to winter fuel payment cut

30 October 2024

Britain / 20 October 2024

Two-child limit ‘entrenching poverty’, says new study

20 October 2024

A displaced child lines up for food distribution in Deir al-

World / 18 October 2024

More than a billion people in the world live in acute poverty, says new report

18 October 2024

A Trussell Trust foodbank in Blawarthill Parish Church, Glas

Britain / 15 October 2024

Two in five low-paid workers have used a food bank in past year, study finds

15 October 2024

Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard uses a loudhai

Britain / 9 October 2024

Former Scottish Labour leader and deputy back calls to scrap winter fuel payment means test

9 October 2024

Britain / 9 October 2024

Hunger and hardship reaches record levels

9 October 2024

Britain / 7 October 2024

Big Issue's statutory poverty reduction targets campaign backed by Scotland's First Minister

7 October 2024

Britain / 7 October 2024

Leading charity blasts politicians for lacking ‘political courage’ to tackle soaring poverty

7 October 2024

Britain / 7 October 2024

10,000 more children will fall into poverty if Labour keeps two-child benefit cap, analysis reveals

7 October 2024

Iain Duncan Smith introducing then Prime Minister Rishi Suna

Britain / 2 October 2024

Former Tory leader says removing two-child benefit cap ‘worth looking at’

2 October 2024

Britain / 1 October 2024

Better targeted support needed to help 7.7m households struggling with fuel bills, research finds

1 October 2024

Britain / 1 October 2024

Majority of teachers witness children in ‘hygiene poverty,’ survey finds

1 October 2024

Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024

Labour faces calls to drop two-child benefit cap

25 September 2024

Britain / 23 September 2024

Poverty in Britain ‘out of control’, Big Issue warns

23 September 2024

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, left, and British Pri

Labour Conference 2024 / 21 September 2024

Where is Britain going?

21 September 2024

The government mantra that ‘things will only get worse’ is almost designed to fuel the far right – and grim warnings from Europe suggest Britain’s future direction of travel too, says DIANE ABBOTT MP

Britain / 18 September 2024

Unions, academics, campaigners and more sign letter to Starmer to end ‘foodbank Britain’

18 September 2024

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Jenny Gilruth tak

Britain / 12 September 2024

Holyrood rejects SNP bid to restore peak rail fares and ditch free school meal plans

12 September 2024

A general view of the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffol

Features / 6 September 2024

The billions for Sizewell C show Labour’s shameful nuclear hypocrisy

6 September 2024

LINDA PENTZ GUNTER condemns Starmer’s willingness to let children go hungry and the elderly shiver while pouring billions into doomed nuclear projects that won’t address the climate crisis

Britain / 29 August 2024

Over 1 in 4 teachers bring in food for starving pupils, poll finds

29 August 2024

A school child during an Early Years Foundation Stage class

Britain / 28 August 2024

Child neglect has become normalised due to poverty, worker survey finds

28 August 2024

Britain / 21 August 2024

One in four fear having to turn off heating and hot water this winter

21 August 2024

A general view of a central heating thermostat

Britain / 5 August 2024

Axing winter fuel payments could create ‘public health emergency,’ charities warn

5 August 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with King A

Editorial / 24 July 2024

Seven against Starmer stand firm: a turning point for Labour’s socialist wing?

24 July 2024

Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at the Farnborough Inter

Britain / 23 July 2024

Left MPs vow to stage a Commons rebellion over Sir Keir's refusal to scrap two-child benefit cap

23 July 2024

Children enjoying playing on swings in a park near Ashford,

Britain / 22 July 2024

Labour urged to drop two-child benefit cap

22 July 2024

Unacceptable for one of world’s wealthiest nations to fuel child poverty, campaigners charge

People take part in a protest march through London, organise

Britain / 22 July 2024

British public want an end to divisions to help tackle key issues, poll finds

22 July 2024

Durham Miners' Gala / 13 July 2024

Labour must act swiftly to lift children out of poverty

13 July 2024

As she returns to Westminster, REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP calls on the new government to scrap the two-child benefit cap immediately to ease families’ financial strain that she sees in Salford

A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks

Britain / 11 July 2024

Pressure mounts on Labour to scrap cruel ‘sibling penalty’

11 July 2024

A child a swinging on a swing in Liverpool

Britain / 24 June 2024

Number of children living in poverty in working households has risen by 1,350 a week since 2010

24 June 2024

A queue forms at foodbank in north London, March 2021

Features / 19 June 2024

This election leaves Britain hungry

19 June 2024

Millions are going hungry in our nation, but Labour is still not prepared to commit to taking the action needed to address the chaos the Tories leave in their wake, write Dr TOMMY KANE, ALEX COLAS and Dr MICHAEL CALDERBANK

Features / 13 June 2024

Workers in Iran are in destitution

13 June 2024

Despite pledges from the late president that absolute poverty would be eradicated by 2022, the reality is that Iran’s commitment to neoliberalism has seen working people plunged ever-deeper into misery, says JAMSHID AHMADI

Britain / 10 June 2024

Vote your values, urge anti-poverty campaigners

10 June 2024

Miners extract mud they hope contains gold at a gold mining

World / 31 May 2024

Billions in gold smuggled out of Africa each year, says new report

31 May 2024

Afghan children eat in a makeshift shelter after an earthqua

World / 30 May 2024

6.5 million children in Afghanistan forecast to experience ‘crisis levels of hunger’

30 May 2024

World / 8 May 2024

Kenyan government bulldozes homes in flood-prone areas and offers evicted families just £60 to relocate

8 May 2024

Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communitie

Britain / 15 April 2024

Over 84,000 households have become homeless since Tories promised to ban section 21 evictions

15 April 2024

Students running during a Physical Education (PE) lesson on

NEU Conference 2024 / 4 April 2024

Teachers paying for disadvantaged pupils' school uniforms, food and toiletries, poll finds

4 April 2024

NEU Conference 2024 / 4 April 2024

How can children learn when they are wracked by poverty?

4 April 2024

NEU general secretary DANIEL KEBEDE warns that after 14 years of Conservative rule, fatigue, hunger and poor health are commonplace in Britain’s schools

Rubbish is loaded into a landfill in Lenox Township, Michiga

World / 27 March 2024

Some 783 million face chronic hunger but the world wastes around 19% of food, says UN

27 March 2024

Britain / 18 March 2024

Poverty hinders NHS access and drives reliance on costly emergency treatments

18 March 2024

a Job Centre Plus shop in central Portsmouth, Hampshire

Britain / 14 March 2024

Split responsibilities between Westminster and Holyrood is failing to tackle unemployment and poverty, IPPR warns

14 March 2024

Protesters outside the Palace of Westminster, ahead of Chanc

Britain / 6 March 2024

Nationwide protests demand Tories don't ‘forget’ fuel-poor households in Budget

6 March 2024

Britain / 6 March 2024

Poverty becoming the ‘new normal’ in Wales

6 March 2024

World / 20 February 2024

Poverty levels in Argentina have soared to 57 per cent, says new study

20 February 2024

Young Food Ambassadors for The Food Foundation protest in We

Britain / 20 February 2024

Parents, teachers and experts urge Tories to back free school meals rollout

20 February 2024

Britain / 29 January 2024

Three million households doomed to fuel poverty

29 January 2024

Britain / 28 January 2024

Fine MPs £1,000 a year for every foodbank in their constituency, campaigners in Wales demand

28 January 2024

Britain / 23 January 2024

Average person in Britain has lost out on £10,200 since Tories came to power, study says

23 January 2024

Editorial: / 22 January 2024

The desperate need for investment in production is clear to all

22 January 2024

Britain / 18 January 2024

Increasing poverty is greatest concern facing children, specialists warn

18 January 2024

Britain / 10 January 2024

Government must act on food poverty, Islamic Relief UK warns

10 January 2024

Charity launches its largest-ever winter food distribution programme amid a severe cost-of-living crisis

Britain / 1 January 2024

Oil giants to hand out £79bn to shareholders as struggling families hammered with £94 bill hike

1 January 2024

Britain / 19 December 2023

Majority of students struggling with food costs due to maintenance loans squeeze, research finds

19 December 2023

an elderly lady with her electric fire on at home in Liverpo

Britain / 13 December 2023

Campaigners call for urgent action as millions to face Dickensian conditions this Christmas

13 December 2023

A farmer fertilizes rice seedlings in fields located along a

World / 11 December 2023

Asia lags behind pre-pandemic levels of food security, UN food agency says

11 December 2023

Features / 28 November 2023

A winter of pain for those with spinal cord injuries

28 November 2023

Patients and professional bodies are united in calling for action to support those with spinal injuries who are facing unique challenges over heating bills, reports RUTH HUNT

Features / 28 November 2023

The West still traps the global South in debt

28 November 2023

For all the talk of the rise of the developing world and the decline of the West’s malignant power over it, we still haven’t seen a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ rebellion over ballooning Third World debt, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 21 November 2023

The Tories’ poverty Budget: will Labour do better?

21 November 2023

We know the Conservatives stand for cuts, destitution, and hungry children – it’s time for Labour to announce the policies that will do the opposite, writes KIM JOHNSON MP

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opens the Global Food Security Su

Features / 20 November 2023

Punishing the poor, but yet more handouts to the rich

20 November 2023

The Tories’ latest assault on the sick and disabled is deadly and economically illiterate, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP

A general view of a domestic central heating thermostat

Britain / 20 November 2023

Campaigners demand heating support in Autumn Budget as winter fuel payments at risk

20 November 2023

UK Youth Parliamentarians, London primary school children an

Britain / 17 November 2023

Young campaigners call on PM to ‘Say Yes to School Food For All’

17 November 2023

Fuel Poverty Action delivers a 7ft prepayment meter to the D

Britain / 8 November 2023

Fuel poverty campaigners deliver prepayment meter to government doorstep

8 November 2023

Britain / 8 November 2023

Food banks give out alarming record 1.5 million packages in six months

8 November 2023

Features / 7 November 2023

Too many youngsters are living in cold and hunger in Wales

7 November 2023

Precarious work and low pay are to blame for plunging families below the poverty line, warns MIKE HEDGES MS

Britain / 3 November 2023

Vigil in Glasgow to remember those killed by energy profiteers

3 November 2023

Snow in the west end of Aberdeen, Scotland, as weather warni

Britain / 24 October 2023

Calls for action as Scotland suffers highest winter deaths in 30 years

24 October 2023

Britain / 22 October 2023

Teachers in Wales campaign for free schools meals

22 October 2023

Britain / 18 October 2023

More than one million emergency food parcels needed for winter, report finds

18 October 2023

Britain / 16 October 2023

One in four working parents struggling to feed families in London

16 October 2023

A homeless person sleeping rough in a doorway

Britain / 10 October 2023

Campaigners welcome Welsh government plans to end homelessness

10 October 2023

Daniel Kebede, the General Secretary Elect of the National E

Britain / 8 October 2023

Teachers union calls on Labour to commit to free school meals for all children

8 October 2023

Britain / 2 October 2023

Half a million Scots in ‘very deep poverty,’ study finds

2 October 2023

Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s State of the Nation study warns that at women and ethnic minorities are disproportionately at risk

Britain / 29 September 2023

Majority of low-paid workers using foodbanks and more than a third have skipped meals, study finds

29 September 2023

Britain / 27 September 2023

Housing workers forced to use foodbanks while bosses enjoy major pay rise, says Unison

27 September 2023

Britain / 19 September 2023

‘Child poverty is ripping through our schools’

19 September 2023

Fresh calls for free school meals as 79% of school staff are now helping students with dinner money

Cost-of-Living Crisis / 25 August 2023

Stop exploiting fan loyalty

25 August 2023

BELLA KATZ speaks to Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust vice-chair ANTHOULLA ACHILLEOS about their latest campaign against exponential ticket price increases

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain

Britain / 24 August 2023

UK and Scottish governments ‘stuck in a rut’ while poverty grows, says Brown

24 August 2023

First Minister Humza Yousaf meeting students during a visit

Britain / 23 August 2023

Campaigners urge Yousaf to put poverty ‘at the heart of Scottish government’

23 August 2023

A person in a wheelchair, as a human rights watchdog has cri

Britain / 17 August 2023

Government accused of ‘violating of disabled people’s human rights’ after failing to act on UN recommendations seven years ago

17 August 2023

From left, The League's Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia's Silvi

Features / 16 August 2023

Italy: far-right government has no answer to deepening poverty

16 August 2023

Unable to stand up to the banks, Giorgia Meloni’s administration cannot agree to a minimum wage and has already cut essential benefits programmes, plunging thousands into turmoil, reports NICK WRIGHT

Britain / 9 August 2023

Tory ministers told to offer more support for older people from ethnic minorities

9 August 2023

Men’s Boxing / 28 July 2023

The Boston Strong Boy

28 July 2023

JOHN WIGHT tells the fascinating story of the rivalry between American bareknuckle boxer John L Sullivan and journalist Kyle Fox, both pioneers in the popularisation of the sport as we know it today

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at Selby football club, North

Editorial: / 23 July 2023

Labour-affiliated trade unions now face a clear choice

23 July 2023

Britain / 23 July 2023

Thousands take to streets across Britain demand and end to food poverty

23 July 2023

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking to the media during

Britain / 23 July 2023

Labour national policy forum riven by rows between trade unions and party’s leadership over two-child benefit cap

23 July 2023

A protestor from anti-austerity campaign organisation The Pe

Britain / 21 July 2023

Thousands around Britain to bang pots and pans in anger at hunger in one of the world’s richest nations

21 July 2023

Britain / 17 July 2023

Labour's benefits cap U-turn shows it ‘doesn't care about poverty’

17 July 2023

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer leaves BBC Broadcasting

Editorial: / 16 July 2023

It's Labour's conservatism that is out of touch in our crisis-ridden world

16 July 2023

The ‘deeply harmful’ benefit cap must be scrapped, child

Britain / 14 July 2023

Scrap ‘deeply harmful’ benefits cap leaving families on £44 a week, children's charity demands

14 July 2023

Policy has ‘trapped’ 250,000 children in deep poverty, says Child Poverty Action Group

Malnourished children wait for treatment in the pediatrics d

World / 13 July 2023

More people can’t afford nutritious food and 148 million children are stunted by hunger, says UN

13 July 2023

Costa Rica's Raquel Rodriguez , center, is congratulated by

Women’s Football / 12 July 2023

World Cup showcases inequity within the women's game

12 July 2023

NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney joins Labour MPs

Britain / 29 June 2023

Teachers union delivers open letter to No 10 calling for free school meals for all primary school pupils in England

29 June 2023

Stocks of food, as One in seven people in the UK faced hunge

Britain / 28 June 2023

One in seven Brits faced hunger due to lack of money, research suggests

28 June 2023

Mayon volcano belches hot emissions down its slope as seen f

World / 14 June 2023

Philippines’ most active volcano forces 18,000 people to flee to emergency shelters

14 June 2023

A farmer tills his land under power lines near central China

World / 6 June 2023

2.3 billion people use still using polluting fuels to cook and 675 million have no electricity, experts warn

6 June 2023

A clothes factory in Bangladesh Photo: Tareq Salahuddin/Crea

Britain / 6 June 2023

Foreign aid focused on ‘shorter-term UK interests’ instead of helping the poor, report finds

6 June 2023

Britain / 2 June 2023

Campaigners fear ‘no fault’ evictions could continue to rise and fuel homelessness

2 June 2023

Britain / 31 May 2023

Failing to eradicate poverty is costing up to £2.4bn a year, charities warn

31 May 2023

More than 300,000 children receive the Scottish Child Payment benefit

Britain / 19 May 2023

Government’s energy bills support scheme misses areas with high levels of fuel poverty, data reveals

19 May 2023

Britain / 15 May 2023

Youth centres have gone from warm banks to ‘revision banks,’ charity warns

15 May 2023

Britain / 12 May 2023

One in three young people say families relied on food support

12 May 2023

New Tory Bill on parole system reform does nothing for victi

World / 29 March 2023

African Union and Nutrition International launch advocacy campaign to reduce malnutrition

29 March 2023

Britain / 29 March 2023

Nearly 7 in 10 children in England whose families are entitled to universal credit are not eligible for free school meals

29 March 2023

Britain / 23 March 2023

More than 14m people in Britain living in poverty, figures show

23 March 2023

empty fruit and vegetable shelves at an Asda in east London

Editorial / 10 March 2023

Rising hunger and rising crime: look at the big picture

10 March 2023

Britain / 3 March 2023

Plaid Cymru debate hears calls to devolve welfare claim system

3 March 2023

Britain / 20 February 2023

Free school meals scheme extended to every primary school pupil in London

20 February 2023

Britain / 13 February 2023

Senedd hears stark evidence of the rising numbers of people in food poverty across Wales

13 February 2023

Britain / 26 January 2023

Nearly 20% of Brits already living in poverty before cost-of-living crisis, report finds

26 January 2023

speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thu

Editorial: / 19 January 2023

In an unstable world, the left needs to start thinking about food security

19 January 2023

Floodwaters surround a home in the Chualar community of Mont

World / 19 January 2023

UN farm fund warns of global food crisis and cites China as an example of how to fight poverty

19 January 2023

Britain / 17 January 2023

One hundred charities and organisations call for social energy tariff to help struggling households

17 January 2023

Wayne Baker, 38, who lives in Thurrock, Essex

Britain / 15 January 2023

Father eats just one meal a day after losing job

15 January 2023

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley who has sai

Britain / 12 January 2023

Police officers resorting to food banks, says Met head

12 January 2023

Britain / 4 January 2023

Disabled people twice as likely to be unable to afford heating, think tank finds

4 January 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty visit a fo

Britain / 4 January 2023

Tories must finally introduce wealth tax to help people struggling with cost-of-living, Scottish Greens say

4 January 2023

A shopper walking through the aisle of a supermarket

Britain / 4 January 2023

Food inflation hits record levels

4 January 2023

Soaring prices left many households with a ‘challenging Christmas,’ new figures show

a pensioner holding some change in her hand

Britain / 30 December 2022

Honours recipients hit out at Tory crisis

30 December 2022

British living standards in ‘serious trouble’

Britain / 30 December 2022

Britain has become ‘the poor man of north-west Europe’

30 December 2022

Some families could end up facing effective tax rates of at

Britain / 28 December 2022

Families hit by benefits clash

28 December 2022

Payments collision inflicts ‘tax rates’ of at least 80%

Sport / 27 December 2022

A cue for success? Zimbabwe's pool players are betting on it

27 December 2022

Britain / 27 December 2022

Scottish government condemned for ‘shameful decision’ to delay rollout of free school meals

27 December 2022

Features / 22 December 2022

The Tories have declared war on society: it is high time society declared war on them

22 December 2022

It has been over a decade since 'austerity measures' were unleashed on our nation, and four years since the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty condemned the inevitable results — but where is our justified rage, asks JOHN WIGHT

A homeless man sleeping in the doorway of closed down branch

Britain / 18 December 2022

Over one million are slipping into poverty and homelessness in Britain

18 December 2022

Britain / 5 December 2022

Cost of Christmas dinner has risen three times faster than wages this year, says TUC

5 December 2022

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken

Features / 2 December 2022

Tory austerity is still devastating Britain

2 December 2022

Reports from Crisis, the Trussell Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation show that the inhumane Tories are leading us deeper into a social emergency, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE

Britain / 2 December 2022

Teachers report growing numbers of ‘hungry, cold and tired’ pupils unable to concentrate as cost-of-living crisis soars

2 December 2022

Britain / 29 November 2022

Rising child food poverty is becoming an ‘urgent public health crisis’ in London, charity warns

29 November 2022

Childhood Trust says children are at risk of malnutrition or worse this winter and calls on government to launch a rapid review into the problem

Britain / 28 November 2022

Thousands of extra cancer cases linked to deprivation in Scotland

28 November 2022

An energy bill claiming that the customer has defaulted on p

Britain / 27 November 2022

More than a fifth of households face fuel poverty this winter, research shows

27 November 2022

Opinion / 27 November 2022

The past casts a shadow over the future

27 November 2022

PAUL DONOVAN reads The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and finds the debates therein both edifying and pertinent in the political climate of Britain today

Britain / 25 November 2022

Two thirds of nurses and healthcare workers choosing between food and fuel to combat rising energy bills, figures show

25 November 2022

Features / 25 November 2022

The alternatives to austerity are obvious

25 November 2022

You face austerity because banks are being feather-bedded, not because the state is 'running out of money.' It doesn’t have to be this way, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

Features / 25 November 2022

Hunger: a damning reality across the UK

25 November 2022

ANGELA MOOHAN reports from an emergency food summit meeting to address the hunger crisis

Britain / 23 November 2022

Homeless deaths rise 8% in 2021, back to pre-pandemic levels

23 November 2022

Britain / 15 November 2022

More than 100 health experts call on Sturgeon demanding more action on child poverty

15 November 2022

Britain / 3 November 2022

Charities join forces in letter to PM demanding more energy support for those in fuel poverty

3 November 2022

Britain / 3 November 2022

Healthcare professionals pen open letter to pressure government on free school meals to prevent child poverty

3 November 2022

Britain / 2 November 2022

A quarter of children whose parents are care workers are growing up in poverty

2 November 2022

Britain / 24 October 2022

Over a quarter of homes in Sunak's constituency are in fuel poverty

24 October 2022

Hamdi Yusuf, a malnourished child, is held by her mother in

World / 19 October 2022

Africa must increase food production by 70% by 2030 to feed the population, UN report warns

19 October 2022

Students eat lunch in the school canteen during the beginnin

Features / 19 October 2022

Fighting poverty starts in the canteen

19 October 2022

In order to remove stigma and make sure children go to lessons well-fed, all primary students must receive free school meals, argues National Education Union joint general secretary KEVIN COURTNEY

Britain / 18 October 2022

1 in 7 people in Britain skipping meals or going without food, TUC study finds

18 October 2022

Right to food campaigners hold a rally in Lewisham, London,

Britain / 5 October 2022

School children living in poverty sharing meals with friends to avert hunger, young campaigner says

5 October 2022

Britain / 3 October 2022

Increasing number of Scottish kids coming to school hungry, finds survey

3 October 2022

First minister Mark Drakeford serves lunch to reception clas

Britain / 26 September 2022

The right to food must be enshrined into law, campaigners demand at TWT 2022

26 September 2022

Features / 25 September 2022

The farcical return of the ‘trickle-down’ myth

25 September 2022

Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP

Prime Minister Liz Truss leaves Westminster Hall, London

Britain / 16 September 2022

Child poverty campaigners call for scrapping of ‘truly catastrophic’ benefit cap

16 September 2022

Britain / 7 September 2022

Two million people on Universal Credit forced to skip meals

7 September 2022

Britain / 1 September 2022

Million face absolute poverty amid terrifying fall in income

1 September 2022

Britain / 1 September 2022

Development of millions of children to be blighted if government fails to act on cost-of-living crisis, experts warn

1 September 2022

Meanwhile, leaked Treasury analysis shows gas and electricity companies could rake in up to £170bn in profits

Features / 22 August 2022

We can no longer live in a society defined by extreme inequality

22 August 2022

The strikes must be the beginning of a mass movement in this country against our broken economic model, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP

An elderly lady with her electric fire on at home

Britain / 22 August 2022

People face freezing or starving this winter, Citizens Advice Scotland warns

22 August 2022

Features / 11 August 2022

Uncovering the grim reality of Britain’s hidden homeless population

11 August 2022

The government must urgently address hidden homelessness, introducing a package of adequate welfare provisions along with landlord regulation and access to habitable, affordable housing, writes BECK ROBERTSON

Unison members and members of the public take part in a TUC

Editorial: / 8 August 2022

Not so Toothless – lessons in the power of activism

8 August 2022

Britain / 8 August 2022

Ministers must take ‘urgent action to prevent a poverty time-bomb going off,’ the Big Issue warns

8 August 2022

Britain / 5 August 2022

Fifth of key worker households have children living in poverty

5 August 2022

TUC warns levels are ‘likely to get worse’ due to cost-of-living crisis and poor pay

Britain / 25 July 2022

Poverty drives North-South mental health divide

25 July 2022

An Afghan refugee boy carries a bag of mangoes on his should

World / 7 July 2022

War in Ukraine has pushed over 70 million people into poverty

7 July 2022

Shoppers in the fruit and vegetables section of a branch of

Britain / 24 June 2022

More people are buying less food due to soaring cost of living, new data shows

24 June 2022

A view of electricity pylons in Cheshire

Britain / 20 June 2022

Fuel poverty campaigners reveal 10 significant failures with government's energy plans

20 June 2022

Britain / 29 May 2022

Mother ‘self-disconnects’ from gas supply to avoid surging prices

29 May 2022

Britain / 25 May 2022

Campaigners call for emergency Budget and review of energy sector as cost-of-living continues to soar

25 May 2022

Britain / 21 May 2022

Hundreds of grocery items more than 20% pricier over last two years, finds Which?

21 May 2022

Britain urgently needs a 'national food plan'

Features / 19 May 2022

Let them eat ... what? Britain’s implosion of political leadership

19 May 2022

With global supply routes choked up by Covid and the war in Ukraine leading to a catastrophic shortage of grain, our nation urgently needs a 'national food plan' that will us becoming self-reliant once again, writes ALAN SIMPSON

Britain / 18 May 2022

As inflation soars to 40-year high, unions warn millions of low-paid workers are being driven into absolute poverty

18 May 2022

‘With prices surging and wages slumping, many households don’t have enough cash to cover the basics,’ Unison warns

Dartford Mayor Rosanna Currans and other senior guests

Britain / 12 May 2022

Tory councillors criticised for tucking into buffet and laughing at foodbank opening

12 May 2022

Foodbanks are ‘evidence of a failure of government,’ Labour councillor says, ‘not heart-warming’ event

Britain / 9 May 2022

1 in 7 adults skipping meals due to the cost-of-living crisis, research finds

9 May 2022

Features / 5 May 2022

Deliveroo is part of the problem – not part of the solution

5 May 2022

The notoriously exploitative food delivery app’s partnership with foodbank charity the Trussell Trust is far from a step in the right direction. Instead we need genuine, lasting measures to combat hunger, says bakers’ union leader SARAH WOOLLEY

Features / 30 April 2022

Fighting for every vote means fighting on all key fronts

30 April 2022

In terms of election strategy and tactics, building the widest possible coalition of interests, rather than single-issue politics, is the way to cut through to voters, writes DIANE ABBOTT

vegetables on display at Coton Farm Shop in Cambridgeshire

Britain / 29 April 2022

4 in 10 people have bought less food in past two weeks due to rising cost of living, survey finds

29 April 2022

An elderly lady with an electric fire on at home

Britain / 19 April 2022

Government told it must help councils tackle fuel poverty

19 April 2022

End Fuel Poverty Coalition calls for legislation to prevent energy firms from charging more than the lowest tariff for those on prepayment meters

Britain / 18 April 2022

Women in England’s poorest areas die younger than in most OECD countries, figures show

18 April 2022

‘This is a shaming indictment of a Tory government that has absolutely no moral compass,’ Labour's Andy McDonald says

Britain / 1 April 2022

Sunak told to announce emergency budget to tackle the spiralling cost-of-living crisis

1 April 2022

TUC brands the Tory Chancellor's Spring Statement ‘woefully inadequate’ and warns millions of families are at ‘breaking point’

Empty fridge Enrico Mantegazza / Creative Commons

Britain / 31 March 2022

Government cuts to support are pushing people over the brink, experts warn

31 March 2022

New figures show almost four million children are living in relative poverty

Britain / 29 March 2022

More than half a million Scots are in debt due to high cost of living, survey finds

29 March 2022

Britain / 28 March 2022

Customers need protecting from ‘regressive and discriminatory’ standing charges, campaigners warn

28 March 2022

Britain / 24 March 2022

Millions to be pushed into poverty by soaring food and energy costs, think tank warns

24 March 2022

12.5 million people will soon be unable to afford basic necessities, the Resolution Foundation says

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing St

Britain / 23 March 2022

Sunak plunges millions of households into ‘absolute poverty and despair’

23 March 2022

Campaigners warn the Chancellor's mini-budget does nothing to tackle the mounting cost-of-living crisis

Britain / 20 March 2022

Six million on verge of fuel poverty

20 March 2022

Working-class areas the biggest victims of crippling energy prices

Food laid out in crates at a food bank in north London

Britain / 13 March 2022

Scottish food workers have been left by their employer to use food banks after the company collapsed

13 March 2022

esisting the new cost-of-living crisis will mean supporting

Features / 11 March 2022

Tory laissez-faire approach means more poverty and misery

11 March 2022

The government is not even pretending to have an answer to the dire situation most of us face. Workers can’t wait for it to tackle the deepening cost-of-living crisis – we have to take action ourselves, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE

Writer Jack Monroe leaves the High Court in central London

Britain / 9 March 2022

The cost-of-living crisis will be ‘fatal’ for children in poverty, Jack Monroe warns

9 March 2022

Families being left to decide whether to ‘turn the heating off’ or ‘skip meals,’ the activist and writer tells MPs The activist and food writer tells MPs

People during a rally outside Kensington Town Hall in London

Editorial: / 9 March 2022

The Grenfell fire – accountability begins at home

9 March 2022

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2022 / 8 March 2022

Women’s rights are not some subsection of the class struggle

8 March 2022

Women have just as big a role to play in the trade unions and in political life as men – every aspect of our day-to-day lives is affected by workplace policies and by the decisions of the politicians in Westminster, argues HELEN O’CONNOR

Britain / 1 March 2022

Tories’ welfare policies have ‘torn apart’ the social safety net for hard-pressed families, Brown warns

1 March 2022

Britain / 24 February 2022

Rough sleeping drops by 9% in England but remains 38% higher than pre-Tory levels

24 February 2022

Features / 23 February 2022

We have a right to food

23 February 2022

SARAH WOOLLEY, general secretary of the bakers' union, reports on the growing momentum behind the campaign to legislate against hunger as the cost of living crisis deepens

VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 14 February 2022

Fighting the cost of living crisis needs a mass movement

14 February 2022

TAM KIRBY argues we can freeze energy bills and the price of essential goods, restore the universal credit uplift and abandon the National Insurance hike — so long as we can build a coalition to tax the rich

People receive food from the Ringcross Foodbank, in north Lo

Britain / 11 February 2022

Social workers warn families can't afford to feed their children

11 February 2022

Figures from Food Is Care uncover food poverty and insecurity on a scale that the campaign group said it had never seen before

Britain / 7 February 2022

1 in 5 councils no longer offering support to help struggling families buy essential furniture

7 February 2022

Britain / 6 February 2022

Tesco condemned for adding to the cost of living crisis despite making bumper profits

6 February 2022

Company chairman John Allan says ‘worst is still to come’ after raising food prices by 1%, with increases five times that possible by spring

A Universal Credit sign on a door of a job centre plus in ea

Britain / 27 January 2022

Jobseekers expected to widen search after one month or face benefits sanctions

27 January 2022

Campaigners warn the Tories' ‘grim’ new policy could force people into jobs they cannot do

Britain / 19 January 2022

Government denies ‘dragging its feet’ on making free school meals permanent to children in need

19 January 2022

Britain / 18 January 2022

Poorest adults could be forced to spend more than half their incomes on housing and energy bills

18 January 2022

The sign of the World Economic Forum is displayed at an entr

Editorial: / 17 January 2022

The richest and the rest – only by making the wealthy pay can we protect ordinary people

17 January 2022

Vension from wild deer, which normally would have gone to so

Britain / 12 January 2022

Two care workers with long Covid relying on foodbanks after council cuts their pay due to absences

12 January 2022

Features / 28 December 2021

Make a new year’s resolution to change the world

28 December 2021

While millions suffer in poverty and ill-health, the super-rich are getting even richer. It’s only through organising and collective action that we can seek to redress the balance, says ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 28 December 2021

Endemic poverty must be treated as the national scandal that it is

28 December 2021

The cost-of-living crisis will not be one that is felt equally, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE MP

Britain / 23 December 2021

Charity gifts thousands of presents to help families that ‘can't afford’ Christmas

23 December 2021

Christmas shoppers on Oxford Street, London

Britain / 23 December 2021

Hundreds of thousands of children risk being left homeless this winter

23 December 2021

Britain / 15 December 2021

Labour movement must fight for a statutory right to food, bakers’ union head says

15 December 2021

Britain / 29 November 2021

UBI system in Wales could have halved poverty levels, study finds

29 November 2021

A person using a central heating thermostat

Britain / 26 November 2021

Pensioners and anti-poverty campaigners demanding government action on winter deaths

26 November 2021

Britain / 22 November 2021

Protesters to condemn rising fuel poverty deaths

22 November 2021

Britain / 22 November 2021

Big Issue warns of ‘mass homelessness’ amid rising bills and rent

22 November 2021

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador addresses the

World / 10 November 2021

Mexican president outlines global poverty reduction plan based on levy on rich countries, companies and individuals

10 November 2021

Book Review / 3 November 2021

Socialist solutions to the climate crisis

3 November 2021

Collective action offers the best political outcomes for the reversal of the unmitigated planetary disaster, writes COLIN TURBETT

Editorial / 26 October 2021

Pay is the big issue on Budget day, but does Labour understand this?

26 October 2021

Britain / 26 October 2021

Britain needs a proper pay rise

26 October 2021

Unions’ final plea as Tories deliver Budget

Britain / 25 October 2021

Scots want poverty and inequality to be tackled, survey finds

25 October 2021

Britain / 20 October 2021

Inflation figures will maintain cost of living crisis and stifle economic recovery, unions warn

20 October 2021

Leaders of the G20 Summit in 2019 pose for a photo in Osaka,

Britain / 18 October 2021

World leaders should align anti-poverty and climate strategies to avoid missing key targets, MPs say

18 October 2021

Britain / 18 October 2021

Welsh government to pursue progressive economic policy that focuses on better jobs

18 October 2021

RIGHT THIS TIME: Despite being on the right wing of Greek po

Features / 15 October 2021

Putting people before profit: energy lessons from Greece

15 October 2021

Families should not have to choose between heating and eating. Other countries are responding to the hike in energy prices with one-off payments and subsidies — but will our government follow, asks EUGENIA RUSSELL