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2 May 2018
Lib Dems backed benefit sanctions to win 5p carrier bag charge
A Lib Dem wonk has claimed credit for the plastic bag charge - saying all it took was agreeing more attacks on welfare
11 April 2018
Letters to the Socialist's editors including homelessness, economics, Iran, North Korea, hospital cuts, Russia and Universal Credit.
6 September 2017
UN slams Tories for disabled rights ruin
Reverse all the cuts now!: A damning UN report has criticised the government's attacks on disabled people in Britain. It states legislation has "failed to recognise living independently and being included in the community as a human right."
4 April 2017
Union day of action slams benefit sanctions
Benefit sanctions punish people for being unemployed. That's why Unite Community - a trade union section for unemployed people - organised a national day of action against benefit sanctions on 30 March
16 November 2016
Court win against bedroom tax not enough
Top judges have ruled against part of the Tories' hated 'bedroom tax' benefit cap.
2 November 2016
We are all Daniel Blake: no more deaths from benefit cuts
Thousands of people have died since the implementation of 'work capability assessments'. This is what the new Ken Loach film 'I, Daniel Blake' is all about. Enough is enough with this inhumane system!
27 January 2016
Steelworkers may face benefit cut-off for not seeking bar jobs
Skilled steelworkers, recently made redundant, could apparently face punishing benefit sanctions - for refusing to seek low-paid work which doesn't use their skills.
11 November 2015
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us. Benefit sanctions versus corporate welfare.
2 September 2015
Made-up benefit sanction quotes: Tory lies no surprise to us
Tory work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been caught out totally making up quotes. Imaginary people subject to welfare sanctions - punishment by cutting benefits - say it actually helped them.
19 August 2015
Gulf War 'unfinished business' remains today
25 years since invasion of Kuwait: 25 years ago, Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait. Western powers responded with a build-up of forces that led to the Gulf War the next year.
5 August 2015
Rent hikes make housing unaffordable
Between June 2014 and 2015, average private rents in Britain increased by 2.5%, according to the Office for National Statistics.
8 July 2015
Short dispatches on the utter hypocrisy of the bosses and their politicians.
3 June 2015
How the unemployed are targeted with sanctions
A Jobseeker's Allowance claimant describes how she was subjected to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) draconian sanctions regime
1 April 2015
End punitive benefit sanctions now!
Darren, a Jobseeker's Allowance claimant from Leicester, has been sanctioned, without proper justification, following a new DWP pilot scheme involving daily signing at a Jobcentre. Darren explains what happened
25 March 2015
Profits from illness: A Unite union report has revealed that many of the big private healthcare companies aiming to get lucrative contracts from the NHS budget operate through offshore tax havens
4 March 2015
Late for supper: Almost 100,000 children in poor families went hungry last year because of government cuts or sanctions imposed on their parents' benefits
28 January 2015
Government welfare cuts: No to sanctions!
Millions in the UK are suffering the effects of unemployment. For many it's a daily struggle with a complicated bureaucracy, the effects of poverty and the countless rejections from job applications
7 January 2015
The target driven use of punitive benefit sanctions on poor people by this government of millionaires is a national disgrace
20 August 2014
Mind the gap: The fall in average earnings in the last economic quarter didn't affect Britain's fat cat executives
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