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The political atmosphere is so dominated by the prejudices and norms of the right that it always a surprise when someone expresses even the most basic of socialist or egalitarian ideas in the mainstream media.
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Remploy employees in the company’s factories in Glasgow and Chesterfield struck for 24 hours last Thursday (26 January) in protest at moves to introduce a two-tier workforce and privatise the company.
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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, millionaire Iain Duncan Smith, has pledged to cut the cost of benefits for disabled people by 20% — one of the “reforms” embedded in the Welfare Reform Bill.
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According to new research by Sheffield Hallam University, more than more half a million sick and disabled people could be forced out of the benefits system by 2014.
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The Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee has described the process being used to reassess Incapacity Benefit claimants as "flawed".
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Leaked data from the NHS Information Centre reveals that from October 2009 to March 2010, social care departments received 40,000 formal complaints about abuse of vulnerable adults.
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Like anyone else who watched it, I felt sickened by Panorama’s expose of how people with learning disabilities were tortured by their carers at a private hospital near Bristol (31 May).
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Government plans to cut housing benefit will have a particularly severe effect on young disabled people according to a homeless charity.
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More than 200 delegates gathered at the TUC Disability Conference on 25-26 May.
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On Wednesday 11 May thousands of disabled people and their supporters marched to parliament on the 'Hardest Hit' demonstration.
