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
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The mental toll on those targeted by Labour
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
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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 transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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SPRING is meant to be a time of optimism, but for those with physical and mental health disabilities, any cheerfulness ended abruptly when Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the cuts and changes in the green paper and the Spring Statement — particularly focused on the disability benefit personal independence payment, known as PIP.
Hitting the severely disabled with cuts is highly controversial, especially from a Labour government where the savings are linked to increased defence spending.
It can be difficult to explain how the disabled face extra costs, but on one episode of Dragons Den a few years ago, it was made clear when an entrepreneur was showing the “dragons” a wheelchair cushion she had made. When asked the price of the cushion for the customer and how much the landed price cost her, the dragons winced. She was asked why it was so expensive for the customer, when it cost so little to make. She fumbled around for an answer before saying the price would indicate “quality.”
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