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9 December 2011
Fighting for disabled people's rights
Following The Hardest Hit campaign's dozen regional marches and rallies on 22 October, its next 'action' on Tuesday 13 December is to send a giant Christmas card to David Cameron
24 October 2011
Hardest Hit demos - thousands march
'Hardest Hit' marches and rallies took place across the UK on Saturday, against the Welfare Reform Bill which will reduce support for disabled people
20 October 2011
Stop the Welfare Reform Bill - fight all cuts to benefits and services
The thousands on this Saturday’s Hardest Hit regional demonstrations know the ugly truth of what the government's plans will mean if the Welfare Reform Bill becomes law
19 October 2011
Stop government attacks on disabled: In the coming weeks the much talked about Welfare Reform Bill gets voted on in parliament. As for myself and many other disabled people this is a deeply worrying time, writes Mark Wright.
Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Bob Severn
19 October 2011
On 14 October, over 40 workers from the Remploy factories in Porth, Abertillery and Aberdare attended a public meeting along with 20 supporters to build the campaign to fight the government's closure programme.
16 September 2011
Remploy workers "will not go gently" - or at all!
Remploy workers won't be bullied by the 'millionaires club' in the government into giving up the fight to save supported employment in the UK, writes Les Woodward
14 September 2011
Greenwich: As we reported last week, Socialist Party member Onay Kasab (Kaz) has been expelled from Unison for allegedly encouraging Greenwich branch members to leave Unison and join Unite...
3 August 2011
Vicious Tory bullies hit...: Government ministers, aided and abetted by the right wing media, have labelled the majority of disability benefit claimants as scroungers after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said 39% were fully fit for work
Hardest Hit Protest, photo Paul Mattsson
13 July 2011
Con-Dem 'reforms' promise misery for disabled people and must be fought!
Dignity denied: The Con-Dems' vicious cuts are hitting us all. This millionaire government is determined to make the working class and the most vulnerable in society pay for the bankers' crisis
6 July 2011
Dilnot report: A disservice to disabled and older people
The 'independent' report, Fairer Care Funding, by the Dilnot commission has predictably failed to address the primary cause of the current crisis in social care - the underfunding of local authority social services by successive Tory and New Labour governments.
15 June 2011
Winterbourne View - fight privatisation, end abuses
The multiple accounts of abuse being investigated at Winterbourne View private hospital near Bristol are sickening and upsetting. They show the reality of privatised health and social care services
1 June 2011
Disabled protester - "inadvertently struck with a police baton"
Disabled activists are outraged by the Metropolitan Police's directorate of professional standards decision to reject a complaint by Jody McIntyre after he was batoned and deliberately pulled out of his wheelchair twice during a demonstration against Con-Dem tuition fees rises last December
1 June 2011
Disabled people are in the front line of the government's attacks on the welfare state. The government has made a critical error
Hardest Hit protest
31 May 2011
Fighting talk at TUC disability conference
The TUC disability conference was in a combative mood following the anti-cuts march of thousands of people with disabilities a week earlier
25 May 2011
Atos Origin - profiting from pain
Disabled people are extremely angry with Steve Cram for accepting the post of 'ambassador' for big business privatisers Atos Origin in their capacity as IT partner for the London 2012 Olympics, writes Les Woodward, Remploy Trade Union National Convenor.
Hardest Hit Protest: Disabled people and their families protest in central London against government spending cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
18 May 2011
The Hardest Hit march and rally
I attended the disabled people's protest in central London on Wednesday 11 May as part of a group organised by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, writes Adrian Picton.
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...
Half-Million strong TUC demo 26 March 2011, photo Dave Beale
6 April 2011
Con-Dems declare war on essential services: Like an arrogant bully, the Tory/Lib Dem coalition is pushing ahead with many of its assaults on the lives of working class people...
23 March 2011
Tory communities secretary Eric Pickles has declared war on what he calls councils' 'barmy rules and regulations' by conducting a 'review' of the 1,294 statutory duties placed on local authorities, writes By a Unison member.
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