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Work capability assessments are a degrading experience
We cannot allow the DWP to continue dehumanising people with bogus medical assessments, writes CHARLOTTE HUGHES
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
EVERY Thursday for four years, a group of activists and I have helped and advised people outside Ashton-under-Lyne jobcentre.
We hand out food parcels and if we can’t give a person all the help they need, we refer them to local organisations and MPs.
Sometimes I am asked to accompany people to their Work Capability Assessment medicals for their Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims.
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