JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Disabled by cuts
Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall leaves Downing Street, London, after a Cabinet meeting. Picture date: Tuesday March 18, 2025
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE much-leaked proposals to slash welfare benefits saw the light of day last week. The Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall spent two hours responding to MPs’ concerns on Tuesday, with the headline target for reducing health and disability-related benefits by £5 billion dominating the headlines.
The rising number of people on benefits is a major problem. One in eight people aged 16 to 24 is not in work, training or education, a shocking statistic which poses a major headache for the whole country. The benefits bill has ballooned since Covid and is forecast to double within four years from the baseline of the international banking crisis of 2007-08.
The risk for the UK Labour government is that any positives from the green paper proposals will be overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households. Iconic disability right campaigner Tanni Grey-Thompson described the cuts as “brutal and reckless” because they target disabled people as the problem.
