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24 January 2018
Universal credit: set up to fail
Only a few days after the roll-out of the Tories' new 'universal credit' benefits system, the working poor, disabled and most vulnerable in our society are already suffering.
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.
3 January 2018
Thousands live in tents and sheds - seize empty homes
Over 60,000 homes in England and Wales have been vacant for more than two years. At the same time, 9,100 people live in tents. And in London alone around 9,000 'beds in sheds' fill secret slums.
25 October 2017
Universal Credit chaos: Tories punish the poor
The government seems hell-bent on rolling out Universal Credit, but even many of their own MPs don't agree - another fracture in this divided minority government
18 October 2017
Young people being strangled by debts
Take the wealth off the super-rich - no to the Tories' scapegoating of pensioners!: Over a third of young people are in debt - on average by £2,989 - says the Money Advice Trust
20 September 2017
Fight expansion of disastrous 'Universal Credit' welfare system
Nearly half of claimants in rent arrears: We campaign for an end to in-work poverty, a living wage for all workers, and living benefits without compulsion
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."
19 April 2017
Benefits workers oppose 'rape clause' and two-child limit
The prospect of explaining this inhumane process to women who have already experienced horrific trauma is unacceptable
12 April 2017
Scrap the Tory 'rape clause' and all benefit attacks
Changes to child tax credits and the 'Universal Credit' benefit system will mean that people making a new claim from 6 April will have the number of children they can claim for capped at two. One exception to this is if the third child was born as a result of what the government calls "non-consensual conception."
29 March 2017
Universal Credit is making the housing crisis worse
The roll-out of the 'Universal Credit' benefits system seems to be making an already desperate social housing situation a whole lot worse
28 February 2017
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced a proposed large-scale reduction of its office estate by 20%, including Jobcentres and back-of-house offices with a further reduction of 10% by office co-location.
22 February 2017
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15 February 2017
PCS union pledges to fight Jobcentre job losses
Reports from PCS campaigning in Llanelli and Sheffield
11 January 2017
Them & Us: £500k house party... 50p for rent
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
7 December 2016
Food banks and the real Daniel Blakes
Hundreds of thousands of people are surviving and feeding themselves by using foodbanks in Britain today
7 December 2016
Slump in unfair dismissal cases - scrap tribunal fees!
Workers took 73% less unfair dismissal cases to employment tribunal last year than before the government introduced fees.
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!
12 October 2016
Suicidal phone calls: fight to reverse tax credit cuts
Concentrix, a private US firm used by HM Revenue and Customs to cut tax credit payments, has been receiving suicidal calls from claimants - as a result of losing their payments thrusting them deeper into poverty.
13 July 2016
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including facts and figures about new PM Theresa May and the M&S pay cut.
30 March 2016
Featured letter: 'Universal Jobmatch' con: 'Rabbit trail' of recurring, non-existent job ads
'Universal Jobmatch' is a website jobseekers are encouraged to use to find work
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