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20 November 2019
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Austerity kills, defend the CWU, no rape justice, disabled poor
13 March 2019
Tories out. Scrap Universal Credit. Fight for living wages and welfare!
Universal Credit is hardly out of the news. The suffering and anxiety it has caused is immeasurable - so much so that even some Tory MPs have been forced to highlight problems with its implementation.
23 January 2019
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Disability benefits nightmare; disappearing hospitals
21 November 2018
Stop Nottingham Labour's cuts to disabled travel!
"We're making more cuts! You ain't seen nothing yet!" This was the comment of Graham Chapman, deputy leader of Nottingham's Labour council when asked about cuts to the disabled person's mobility card, which gives free bus and tram travel.
4 July 2018
Service users and families protest learning disability service cuts
Service users and carers protested outside Rotherham Town Hall against the council's decision to close centres
20 June 2018
Leeds: Disability campaigners force council to retreat
Parents involved in the Disability Empowerment Action Links (Deal) group have pushed Leeds City Council into 'pausing' its plans to cut special education needs transport to over-16s.
30 May 2018
Letters to the Socialist's editors including benefit cuts, Prince Charles, train toilets and developers' charter
25 May 2018
Action demanded from new council
In a fantastic show of unity, campaigners from across the spectrum of local issues came together
2 May 2018
Parents and campaigners protest Leeds disability travel cut
Leeds council has withdrawn escorted transport funding for young people aged 16 and over with special educational needs and disabilities. Parents and students, alongside Unite Community members, gathered on the steps of Leeds Town Hall on 28 April to protest.
3 January 2018
Tory prescription for mental illness: stress and bureaucracy
As an individual with mental health issues, it has been my misfortune to experience directly just how capitalist society, Britain 2017, treats such people. I can't imagine that my experience is particularly unique.
22 November 2017
Disability cuts outrage: my story
I am a 49-year-old woman who has been managing the progressive disease multiple sclerosis for 19 years. Shame on Capita! Shame on the Tory government!
20 September 2017
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors
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."
10 May 2017
Some permanent degenerative medical conditions "do get better," according to one Tory MP
26 April 2017
A man with chronic health problems died after the hated 'work capability assessment' found him 'fit to work'
15 March 2017
Disabled workers deserve a living wage
Rosa Monckton, one of the trustees of Team Domenica, a 'charity' which claims to help disabled people get into work, has said that businesses should be allowed to pay disabled people less than the minimum wage.
1 March 2017
Tories to dodge rulings against disability benefit cut
Despite two tribunals ruling that the Department for Work and Pensions should expand the reach of the 'personal independence payment' (PIP) disability benefit, the government is bringing emergency legislation to stop it.
22 February 2017
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16 November 2016
Socialism 2016: Putting socialism on the agenda
Struggle, internationalism and socialism, these ideas - and how powerful they can be in action - electrified the magnificent rallies and workshops at Socialism 2016
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!
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