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Pensioners and elderly disabled people protesting against cuts in services outside Waltham Forest council, photo Paul Mattsson
11 May 2011
Defend independent living rights
In April, Elaine McDonald, a former prima ballerina with the Scottish Ballet, took her fight to maintain her dignity and stop cuts to her care package to the Supreme Court, an Independent Living Fund user writes.
Cuts hit disabled people hard, photo Paul Mattsson
4 May 2011
Benefits slashed: Disabled people and family carers are now experiencing an unprecedented attack. Cuts made and planned by the Tory/Liberal coalition will hit the public and community services they use and the benefits...
27 April 2011
Torture camp: The latest tranche of WikiLeaks documents covering prisoners at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reveals what has long been suspected, ie that many of those incarcerated were completely innocent people, not terrorists...
20 April 2011
Sarkozy instigates ban on veil to boost his political ratings
What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women's rights?: On 11 April 2011 the French government brought into force a ban on wearing full-face veils in any public place in France. The right wing UMP government framed this law on the pretext of 'security'.
20 April 2011
Gay protest and discrimination
On 15 April, the John Snow pub in London's Soho had angry protests outside its doors after two gay men, James Bull and Jonathan Williams, were ejected for kissing...
13 April 2011
Chauvinist 'thoughts' from David Willetts
Universities minister David Willetts, a prime architect of this government's slash-and-burn higher education policies, recently revealed his thoughts on social mobility in Britain today, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield.
5 April 2011
Pride 2003: Fight The Bigots And Bullies
'OUT, PROUD and militant' is the Socialist Party Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Group message at this year's Pride, writes Manny Thain.
5 April 2011
Austria: Success In Defending Women's Right To Abortion
AN IMPORTANT case in defending women's right to abortion was won on 10 July at the end of a lower court trial, writes Claudia Sorger, Socialist Left Party, Austria.
16 March 2011
The Guardian newspaper, which pretends to be 'progressive' and 'liberal' on social issues, disgracefully included Margaret Thatcher in its article on the "100 most inspiring women" to "celebrate" international women's day...
16 March 2011
Campaigning against all cuts and privatisation
Tower Hamlets: In 1921 Poplar councillors, led by George Lansbury, electrified British politics by refusing to make working class East Londoners pay unaffordable rates...
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