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.