Official inflation figures understate the real extent of rising costs, but even the government's own CPI scheme lays bare the ongoing misery for working people and those dependent on benefits.
Maysara Abu Hamidya's death has started a new spiral of violence
Duncan Smith's benefit cuts make him top rival to Osborne in the 'nastiest Tory' stakes
The Chancellor's branding of the Philpotts as products of the welfare state is designed to whip up support for attacks on the poor
Interview with Jalali Al-Salman, the teacher and trade unionist who faced torture for leading members out on strike during the 2011 uprising
Venezuela's pursuit of south American integration
The war on the poor began this week in earnest. It's time to fight back
Celebration of the work of oral historian George Ewart Evans
How material in the WikiLeaks cables could have prevented the Gulf of Mexico disaster
The Con-Dem coalition is under pressure to cut back Britain's contribution to poverty alleviation programmes around the world