On Tuesday 12th October you carried a long opinion piece from Rory Hearne which asserted that he had ‘matured’ through experience and turned his back on the socialists left.

Low-paid workers in the Global South are often dismissed as powerless. But Bangladeshi garment workers are leading a fightback.

On 1 May, International Workers Day, HelpAge International will launch a new report that uncovers how much work is done by older people in poorer countries and the difficulties they face.

The experience of regeneration schemes everywhere in the world is that they do not
have much impact on the health or wealth of people in the most disadvantaged
communities – even when they are actually in the areas being regenerated.

Combat Poverty was  today wound up as a State agency developing and promoting measures to combat poverty in Ireland. It has now been brought under the Mary Hanafin's Dept of Social Welfare.

By Madeleine Johansson

Professor Richard Wilkinson spoke on inequality in society and its effects on health at the ‘Shaping our Future’ conference last Friday.

Lone parents with children as young as seven will be subjected to the “Welfare to Work” regime.