PCS dispute needs real demands
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The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) meets in Brighton from 21 to 23 May for its annual conference.
Benefits
Labour must make a positive case for welfare
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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, as the Kevin Spacey character argues in The Usual Suspects, is convincing the world that he doesn’t exist.
Stop “bedroom tax” evictions!
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Across the country demonstrations and meetings have been held against the “Bedroom Tax”.
Tabloids, lies and benefits
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An article in today's Daily Express is typical of how the tabloid press lies about the benefits system.
Migrants scare is a distraction
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On Sunday 25 March David Cameron wrote a piece for the Sun railing about so-called health and benefit tourism by migrants!
Labour backs Tory unpaid labour scheme
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Labour MPs helped get the coalition off the hook over the “workfare” scandal that saw three appeal court judges rule that the work-for-free-or-lose-your-benefits schemes to which over 200,000 unemployed workers have been subjected are unlawful.
Stop this war on the poor!
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When averaged out across the whole population, the government’s benefit cuts amount to a £760 loss by 2014-2015 for every single one of us.
Benefit cuts: unions and Labour must protest!
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A scattering of protest meetings and stalls and lobbies is beginning to grow.
Fight the “benefit cap”!
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On 13 February, the Guardian splashed a report that the Labour council of Camden, in north London, was “singling out more than 700 families to be moved up to 200 miles away”.
Workfare doesn’t work
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“Workfare” schemes took a blow on Tuesday 12 February as two unemployed workers won Court of Appeal cases which ruled that attempts to force them to work for free, or risk losing their benefits, were unlawful.