As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Disabled people’s struggle will continue under the Labour government
As Starmer takes office, LINDA BURNIP outlines the urgent challenges facing disabled people after years of austerity and explains why DPAC are already taking action
Disability campaigners stage a protest at London Bridge station in the row over access to Govia Thameslink Railway services, May 2018
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
FOURTEEN years of the Tories in power have led to disabled people being pushed further and further into poverty, and the actions of the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) led to thousands of unnecessary deaths.
On top of this, the loss of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in Britain (with the exception of Scotland which has retained it) has led to disabled people losing their social care funding and becoming trapped at home without the support they need to join in with society.
In addition to this, for most people now, including disabled people, it is often impossible to get a GP appointment and hospital waiting lists have never been so long, as our NHS has been ground into crisis.
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Having good social care is a life and death situation for disabled people and they must not become collateral damage in pursuit of the removal of freedom of movement, writes LINDA BURNIP
DPAC co-founder LINDA BURNIP looks back on the highs and lows of a decade of organising to give a powerful voice to disabled people who are often ignored and excluded
