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We can defeat the cuts to disability support together
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that a broad, united mass movement can stop the cuts and ensure it’s the wealthiest that pay their fair share
TAX THE RICH: Anti-cuts protesters spell it out outside the Treasury, London, March 25 2025
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
THE single most important task facing every socialist, trade unionist, anti-poverty campaigner, and all progressives up and down the country over the coming weeks is to defeat the cruel cuts proposed to disability support.
These proposals are a disgraceful attack on some of the most disadvantaged and poorest people in our society. They need to be stopped — and they can be.
We have just a few months to build the huge campaign needed so that the government gets the message that, if it doesn’t scrap these plans, it will face a rebellion far larger than it could have ever imagined when it won its majority last year. From demonstrations to lobbies, letter-writing to mass petitions, this campaign needs to involve people in every way they want to speak out against these cuts.
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