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21 April 2021
Capitalism discriminates against us - Disabled people fighting for our rights
"My experience has been a humiliating financial nightmare ...I first tried to claim disability benefits in the 1990s..."
17 February 2021
Last year was dubbed 'the year from hell' as a result of two million deaths from Covid and the pandemic's huge hit on working-class living standards and livelihoods.
27 January 2021
TV review: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain
Cerrie Burnell and her team have produced a landmark documentary on the subject of disability.
25 November 2020
CripTales: A painful reflection of a system that pits us against each other
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act, the BBC has produced a series of short films called 'CripTales'
21 October 2020
Disabled students let down by "rotten education system"
The UK's capitalist university system is rotten to the core. Universities' prime aim is not to provide education for students - but to generate income for their vice chancellors and management
7 October 2020
Film: 'Sick' - 'They've got people looking in the wrong direction'
'Sick' is a heart-wrenching drama/documentary that uses the real stories of benefit claimants battling, and sometimes losing to, the system to claim Personal Independence Payment, and also work capability assessments for Employment Support Allowance.
2 September 2020
Capitalism cause of disproportionate disabled deaths and isolation
Covid-19 has disproportionately hit disabled people. This is one of the effects of capitalist society, which is disabling, and puts profit before lives, including of the people it disables.
24 June 2020
Call for an increase in PIP due to Covid-19
Disability Campaigners in Chesterfield have launched a campaign following our members' experiences on public transport (or lack of availability), and the increased costs this means if people travel at all
5 June 2019
Step forward for campaign to reverse mobility pass cuts in Nottingham
On 20 May members of the Reverse Mobility Pass Cuts campaign, including the Socialist Party, lobbied the first meeting of the new Nottingham Labour Council. 50 councillors out of 55 are Labour.
10 April 2019
South Yorkshire Freedom Riders - still battling on
South Yorkshire Freedom Riders held rallies on 1 April marking five years of our struggle for the full restoration of travel pass rights
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.
3 October 2018
Maximus profitus: disabillity profiteering scandal
While extracting huge profit from disabled-worker employer Remploy, Maximus made a further 100 employees redundant
12 September 2018
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
11 April 2018
Hull City supporters fight to reclaim their club and the game
Hull City AFC supporters are currently fighting for their club to use their full name and for concessionary prices for the young, elderly and disabled
6 December 2017
Waltham Forest Universal Credit protest
Local MP Iain Duncan Smith devised the spiteful system, which has already left families in rent arrears and without benefits at Christmas time
4 October 2017
Chatsworth ward campaign replies to Tory MP's intervention
Mansfield was one of the few places the Tories gained from Labour in the general election. The new MP, Ben Bradley, had an article in the local paper recently about Chatsworth ward. The campaign sent in a reply
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."
9 August 2017
Colin John, a new member and retired trade union convenor, turns up regularly on our Saturday campaign stall in Swansea despite his mobility problems
26 July 2017
'Freedom riders' lobby against violent policing
Pensioners and disabled people from South Yorkshire Freedom Riders are to travel by coach to York on 31 July to lobby a police misconduct hearing
10 May 2017
Featured letter: disabled workers want our voices heard, not charity
I'd like to thank John Gillman and the editors of the Socialist for making an audio version of the paper available at socialistparty.org.uk
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