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Disabled campaigners take pride in our tradition of resistance
On the International Day of Disabled People, ELLEN CLIFFORD looks back on the activism of Disabled People Against Cuts and assesses the prospects for the future of radical anti-austerity politics
EMOTIVE: Nathan Lee Davies is an independent living campaigner in Wrexham. His collages express the intense frustrations of inadequate social care support and depict the loneliness and isolation of disabled people in a right-wing Conservative world
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
AT THE end of one of the hardest years in living memory, disabled campaigners are determined to make celebrations for this year’s International Day of Disabled People extra special.
After a decade of austerity and welfare reform measures deliberately designed to hit disabled people hardest, along came Covid-19 and official responses to the pandemic that explicitly rated disabled people’s lives as worth less than those of non-disabled people.
The year 2020 was also the anniversary of two important disability-related milestones: the first was the passage of the Disability Discrimination Act in 1995; the other was the founding of Disabled People Against Cuts.
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