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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
19 January 2010
On the day when the TUC and others write to the government to express their concern that 620,000 people have been out of work for over a year, we hear that Gordon Brown is to expand the army cadet forces in state schools, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
4 November 2009
Trade unionists must fight for decent benefits for all
Sick and disabled under attack: THE PRO-big business parties, New Labour, Tories and LibDems, vied with each other at their party conferences with zealous plans to make the working class pay for the economic and financial crisis, writes Jim Horton, welfare rights adviser, north London.
Care workers protest at privatisation in Waltham Forest, photo Alison Hill
7 October 2009
Cuts, outsourcing and privatisation mean vulnerable adults and children are 'falling through the net'. Social care staff are struggling to cope with high caseloads, increasing red tape and worsening pay, terms and conditions at work.
Paul Couchman, a social care worker and branch secretary of Surrey County Unison writing in a personal capacity, analyses what is going on.
29 July 2009
DESPERATE LABOUR Party supporters argue that at least a New Labour government is better than the Tories...
19 November 2008
POST OFFICE campaigners in Stroud, Gloucestershire were celebrating the reopening of Uplands post office, despite the best efforts of the government and Post Office Ltd to close it, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Save Our Post Offices.
22 July 2008
Punishing the jobless for being jobless
Work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, has announced a major attack on benefits claimants in his new welfare green paper. His claim that the changes will "transform lives" will be borne out, but disgracefully it will be in a transformation for for the worse...
14 February 2008
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Picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe's anti-abortion meeting 6 February 2008, photo Paul Mattsson |
30 January 2008
Incapacity benefit cuts hit the sick
THE GOVERNMENT'S plans for 'welfare reform' are raising concern among people on Incapacity Benefit (IB). Nooshin Shabani spoke to two people on incapacity benefit...
23 January 2008
Post office campaign: Changes in the law to break the poor
Life will be made much harder for many elderly and disabled people with the planned closures of around 2,500 post offices across the country this year... By Jon Dale
22 November 2007
New attacks on incapacity benefits
WORKS AND Pensions (DWP) minister Peter Hain has announced new medical 'tests' from next October for people with disabilities to make it harder to qualify for incapacity benefit...
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