Benefits
03 November 2015
Around 250 delegates from the Unite and PCS unions, Unemployed Centres, Occupy, Dpac, Black Triangle and others met in Birmingham last Saturday.
27 October 2015
Tory chancellor George Osborne was left red-faced after the Lords threw back his cuts to tax credits on Monday of this week.
27 October 2015
The House of Lords vote to delay tax credit cuts shows the Tories are far from unstoppable, says Judith Orr
20 October 2015
MPs debated George Osborne’s plan to slash £4 billion from tax credits on Tuesday of this week.
29 September 2015
The death of a two month old baby boy last week who lived in a car in Dorset with his homeless parents underlined the shocking extent of Britain’s housing crisis.
29 September 2015
Around 1,000 deaf and disabled people marched on Downing Street last Saturday.
22 September 2015
The decision to stop severely ill Michael O’Sullivan’s benefits led directly to his death, a coroner has ruled.
01 September 2015
Hated Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith is struggling to bury the truth about how many people have died after he cut their benefits.
25 August 2015
Iain Duncan Smith launched yet another initiative to attack people on benefits this week.
18 August 2015
Tory minister Matthew Hancock has ramped up the assault on welfare with plans to force young unemployed people into “boot camps”.
18 August 2015
Includes letters on Cuba-US relations, GM crops ban, defending abortion rights and more.
11 August 2015
When the Tories say they want to charge people not born in Britain for NHS care we know this can be the first step towards bringing in charging everyone.
04 August 2015
People from ethnic minorities are actually disproportionately affected by the attacks in George Osborne’s July budget, according to a new report from the Runnymede Trust.
28 July 2015
Benefit sanctions to be reviewed | Prevent strategy claims toddler victim | New inquiry into spy cops | Cuts hit black people harder
28 July 2015
Pride marches in Norwich and Nottingham | Safety monitors to strike at Sellafield | Gunstones strike postponed over new pay | Food bank protest against Tory MP David Mundell | Traffic wardens to strike in Hackney | Benefits protest in Milton Keynes
21 July 2015
Hundreds of PCS union members struck on Monday and Tuesday of this week at Bolton and Glasgow’s Universal Credit Centres.
21 July 2015
How did 49 people die after cuts or changes to their disability benefits?
21 July 2015
One of the Tories’ most vicious attacks on the poor and the working class passed its second reading in parliament on Monday of this week.
14 July 2015
Campaigners in both Bromley, south London, and Glasgow stopped two evictions in the past week.
14 July 2015
New offer in Gunstones bakery dispute | Universal Credit staff set to strike in Glasgow and Bolton | ITV workers accept new pay settlement | Heathrow protesters oppose 'Plane Stupid' new runway | Arrests after demonstration at Israeli arms firm Elbit | Harmondsworth protesters demand an end to refugee detention |