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Disability campaigners stage a protest at London Bridge station in the row over access to Govia Thameslink Railway services, May 2018
The US-Israeli strikes against Iran are part of a decades-long war against the Islamic Republic which has refused to bow to US demands that it surrender its sovereignty, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
The TUC’s NIKKI POUND says there are gains in the Employment Rights Act for women — but there’s a hell of a lot more to fight for
Scotland’s deepening crises expose the human cost of political complacency — and the toll it is taking on working-class communities, says NEIL FINDLAY
KENNY MacASKILL looks at the extraordinary political commitment of a Church of Scotland minister’s wife
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
FOURTEEN years of the Tories in power have led to disabled people being pushed further and further into poverty, and the actions of the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) led to thousands of unnecessary deaths.
On top of this, the loss of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in Britain (with the exception of Scotland which has retained it) has led to disabled people losing their social care funding and becoming trapped at home without the support they need to join in with society.
In addition to this, for most people now, including disabled people, it is often impossible to get a GP appointment and hospital waiting lists have never been so long, as our NHS has been ground into crisis.
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
