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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
26 September 2012
Reasons to join the 20 October demo, reasons to build for a 24-hour strike
Workers in Jobcentres around the country will be trained up in the government's new sanctions regime over the next few months, ahead of their implementation on 22 October
Disabled people, family members and anti-cuts campaigners took a protest to the Atos assessment centre in Swansea, photo by Swansea Socialist Party
5 September 2012
London Paralympics; protests against disability cuts: "Atos kills, kill Atos!"
London: "Atos kills, kill Atos" could be heard up and down Victoria Street outside the Department for Works and Pensions as campaigners occupied the building as part of a week of protest against cuts to disabled people's benefits...
Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside Downing Street on budget day 2012, photo Suzanne Beishon
22 August 2012
Zero-hour contracts mean zero rights
I was recently interviewed by BBC Two's Newsnight after writing in the Socialist (issue 719) about zero-hour contracts and feel privileged to have spoken for the unemployed, writes Natalie Owen, Coventry, West Midlands.
22 August 2012
Scrounger? The truth about living on the dole
Following redundancy after six years at a local authority, last summer I had to claim Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA), and discover first-hand the inequities of the benefits system, writes Paul, London.
8 August 2012
Brighton pensioner jailed for non-payment of council tax
In 2011 Brighton and Hove became the first local authority in Britain to be run by the Greens. The Green manifesto looked forward to "a just and equal city where everybody is treated with kindness, respect and dignity".
Pic: Paul Mattsson
18 July 2012
March and strike against austerity
Lobby the TUC to call a general strike: The cracks in the Coalition are becoming open splits. This is a weak government that can be defeated. However, left to its own devices, it will stagger on, unleashing the remaining 85% of the biggest austerity programme for 90 years.
BBC Documentary: When I Get Older: My time with Ivy, photo: screenshot from BBC
18 July 2012
Review: BBC TV documentary "When I get older"
Acute poverty and loneliness face many pensioners in Britain. This programme asked four pensionable age 'celebrities' to stay with four `ordinary` pensioners in their homes
Never Trust a Tory, photo by Paul Mattsson
27 June 2012
Hypocrites! Tories bash benefits, rich let off the hook
David Cameron launched a scathing attack on comedian Jimmy Carr's million pound tax-dodging while leaving unscathed the billions of taxes avoided by his posh friends in big business, writes Dave Reid.
Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo Paul Mattsson
27 June 2012
Government of rich ups war on welfare state
Cuts are now predicted to last to 2020. But Prime Minister David Cameron's speech on Monday 25 June mapped out the depth of that on-going suffering. The speech included little detail but spells out misery...
27 June 2012
Miliband speech: no answer to the race to the bottom
"I have heard stories from my Doncaster constituency where East European migrants arrived to work in a local chicken factory for long hours at less than the minimum wage while sleeping 19 to 20 to a house...
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