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Employment and Support Allowance (9)
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Stop the slaughter of Tamils (54)
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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
17 July 2012
Oppose the closure of the Independent Living Fund
On 12 July, Tory minister for disabled people Maria Miller announced the final coup de grace for the national Independent Living Fund when she launched a government consultation on what should happen to its 19,000 users when it is closed in April 2015
Waltham Forest Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside Leytonstone police station 29 June 2012 to demand the lifting of the dispersal order zone in the area, photo Sarah Wrack
4 July 2012
Immolation horror - we demand jobs
It was revealed recently that the private companies running the Con-Dems' slave labour workfare schemes want even more unemployed people to have their benefits stopped as punishment for 'not looking hard enough for a job'...
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...
27 June 2012
Poverty and job worries hit mental health
A leaked memo from senior Jobcentre executives to staff warns of an increased risk of benefit claimants attempting suicide as a result of changes to sickness benefit...
Hackney College UCU members protest June 2012 "Sack bankers not teachers", photo Paul Mattsson
27 June 2012
Breadline Britain - living in poverty
A series in the Guardian, Breadline Britain, has outlined some shocking statistics about poverty. These figures have smashed apart the Tory propaganda about 'scroungers' and 'the job-shy'...
20 June 2012
Strike scare: The government will stop at no dirty trick to scare people away from taking strike action. The lowest paid workers are having yet another safety net stripped away - under the new Universal Credit system...
13 June 2012
240 hours' work for no pay - then back on the unemployment scrapheap: After being unemployed for over eight months in Hull, one of the worst areas for unemployment in the country, I was put onto a 'voluntary' work experience scheme
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