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14 September 2016
Socialist Party members join disability rights week of action
Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) called a week of action, 4-10 of September to coincide with the beginning of the Paralympic Games.
13 July 2016
Child poverty rises by 200,000 in a year
In the space of just one year, 2014 to 2015, the number of children living in poverty in the UK has risen by a staggering 200,000. This brings the total number to 3.9 million, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
15 June 2016
Hilarious, innovative satire on state bureaucracy
Theatre review - The Government Inspector: A fantastic achievement - fast paced, very funny, innovative and inclusive. The closest description might be a lost episode of Fawlty Towers - from 1836.
1 June 2016
Obituary: Simon Gomery 1968-2016
Simon spent much of his adult life in the Labour Party, but joined the Socialist Party in 2014. He had become increasingly disillusioned with a Labour Party he felt was detached from the working class, and was proud to have been formally expelled for nominating a Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in his ward for the 2014 elections.
30 March 2016
Disabled activists shame tory cutters
Disabled people protested against Tory attacks on our benefits in parliament on 23 March, writes Amalia, disabled worker.
23 March 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors. Rape, women and victim blaming; McDonnell boosts Blairite mayor; healthcare insurance headache; errors of the pro-EU left; global economy gripes.
16 March 2016
Tories cut disabled dignity for tax breaks
Tory chancellor George Osborne plans to cut £1.2 billion from benefits which help disabled people live independently, writes Adrian Picton, Disabled worker.
24 February 2016
Gateshead: reprieve for respite centre
Cabinet papers show that, following protests, Gateshead's council is to back down over the closure of Grove House - a respite centre for children and a respite and day centre for adults, all with serious disabilities.
9 February 2016
Disabled woman harassed for bedroom tax
A press release from Waltham Forest Trade Union Council
20 January 2016
Gateshead carers oppose respite centre closures
For years Gateshead's Labour councillors have boasted they would always protect frontline services for the most vulnerable, writes Elaine Brunskill
13 January 2016
It's one law for them...: A High Court judge has ruled against the Tories' benefits cap. Strangely enough, it seems the "strongly worded" judgment has not brought an end to Tory attacks on the most vulnerable.
18 November 2015
My struggle for an income I can live on
"Please Sir, can I have a job?": I have multiple disabilities that include mobility post-traumatic stress disorder and dyslexia.
11 November 2015
Fight now on to save disabled respite centre
Gateshead's Labour council plans the closure of Grove House, a respite centre for mentally and physically disabled children between eight and 18 years of age, among the most vulnerable members of society.
2 September 2015
The rich have it easy, the rest of us struggle. Super-rich bosses can now literally swim in the sky.
2 September 2015
Bin crash tragedy shows pressure on sick to work
There is enormous pressures on disabled and ill people to remain at work. Those who don't work face benefit cuts.
2 September 2015
2,380 dead after Tory attacks on disabled: The full horror of Iain Duncan Smith's bullying of the sick and disabled off benefits is now clear. We say: scrap 'work capability assessments' and reverse welfare cuts!
5 August 2015
Personal care budgets: more choice for service users?
'Personal budgets' for disabled and older people became a reality last year. Supposedly they give service users more choice over their own care. But what is their real effect?
15 July 2015
As people live longer, more and more are likely to need care services when they get older, writes Jean Thorpe, Nottingham Socialist Party.
9 July 2015
Four disabled activists were arrested on budget day as protesters were manhandled by police
8 July 2015
The Tories intend to slash Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) by almost £30 a week. ESA, which replaced incapacity benefit in 2008, is paid to disabled people or those too ill to work who have extra needs.
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