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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
28 March 2013
22. In a shameful fashion Cameron has sought to split the working class on the question of cutting benefits...
28 March 2013
62. We dealt with the question of migration in more depth in last year's perspectives document. The census results give a picture of the changed makeup of Britain's population...
27 March 2013
The 'workfare bill' and sanctions targets
Con-Dems have no solutions to unemployment: On budget day, the latest unemployment figures were published and showed yet another increase in the number of people out of work, writes Dan Crowter, Coventry Socialist Party.
13 March 2013
Scrap the bedroom tax for all!
From April the 'bedroom tax' will mean that social housing tenants with spare rooms will have their benefits cut, writes Paul Kershaw.
13 March 2013
Welfare Reform Act will impoverish hundreds of thousands
Next month sees the implementation of much of the coalition's Welfare Reform Act as they ramp up their relentless and brutal ideological attack on the welfare state, writes Vicky Perrin.
7 March 2013
Cap rents not benefits:
On 1 April David Cameron's government of the rich will unveil their vicious 'bedroom tax'. On the same day the Con-Dems are cutting millionaires' taxes yet again, saving them over £100,000 a year!
Britain on Benefits: Channel 4 Dispatches - a refreshing challenge to the government's cuts to welfare and disabled people
7 March 2013
TV review: Britain on Benefits
I assumed the Channel 4 documentary - Britain on Benefits - would be peddling the same old government lies to mask its failures on unemployment, writes Ian Pattison.
Scotland Youth Fight for Jobs arrives in Glasgow, 20 October 2012, photo by Matt Dobson
27 February 2013
The Work Programme isn't working
20 out of 9,500. That's how many former incapacity benefit claimants were placed in jobs lasting longer than three months
27 February 2013
Foodbank figures reveal reality of austerity
In a survey of Coventry Foodbank service users by Warwick University, 62.7% said their weekly household income was less than £100 a week, writes Robert McArdle , Coventry East Socialist Party.
27 February 2013
Will the Tories play the benefits card?
Another bright idea that the Conservatives came up with recently is to pay people's benefits on a card that restricts what it can be spent on
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