Benefits Osborne slapped a one-year time limit on contributions‑based Employment and Support Allowance (formerly incapacity benefit). This means a disabled or seriously ill person whose partner works, however low-paid their job may be, will lose their benefits after a year.Up to £2,500 a year is being taken away from 58,000 Disability Living Allowance claimants who live in care homes.Local authorities will get new "flexibility" on council tax benefit. This will mean hundreds of town halls coming up with their own complex systems—and returning us to the days of the poll tax as they chase people who can’t pay for their debts.
It could have been stopped. But here we are in 2015, in a future where Osborne and his Tory friends got their way and slashed public services down to almost nothing.
Furkan Dogan is forever in GazaArshad’s suit is there too
The fifth Viva Palestina convoy from Britain has reached Gaza. Socialist Worker sends its sincere congratulations to all who have taken part.
During 1960 a total of 17 African countries gained independence from their colonial masters. This was the highest in any single year and, as British prime minister Harold Macmillan said, it signalled that a "wind of change" was blowing across the continent.
In the 1950s the establishment joked that a sign should hang outside the elite Eton private school reading, "Cabinet makers to Her Majesty the Queen". Depressingly the same thing could be said again in the early 21st century.
The fifth Viva Palestina convoy from Britain is nearing Gaza. Human rights lawyer and socialist Jim Nichol reports from the convoy:
The fifth Viva Palestina convoy from Britain is nearing Gaza. Human rights lawyer and socialist Jim Nichol reports from the convoy:
This is how the Financial Times editorial reported on David Cameron’s speech to the Tory Party conference: "Having exhumed the idea of the ‘Big Society’, he struggled to breathe life into it. He denied that it was a cover for cuts. But fog descended when he tried to explain."
The US and Britain’s "war on terror" is maintained by the torture and oppression of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The starting pistol was fired this week for the Unite union general secretary election as its 1.5 million members received statements from the four candidates.
Karl Marx did not just analyse capitalism, he also asked how it would be possible to create an entirely different kind of society.
