UK Uncut plan to ‘evict a millionaire’ over Bedroom Tax
The anti-cuts direct action pioneers UK Uncut have announced that their next action will be a day of "mass civil disobedience" on Saturday 13 April. Their focus will be the…
Now Labour support law to deny compensation to victims of unlawful Workfare
Take action: this Bill is before the Commons TODAY (Tuesday 19 March). Caroline Lucas' office has confirmed to us that a group of MPs will be trying to push it…
The easiest way out of the collapse would be to increase benefits
The first thing I think of when the government cuts benefits is my friends – friends already forced to their knees by massive youth unemployment, now being kicked in the…
Driving people to self-immolation: pour encourager les autres
Yes, it has come to this – an unemployed man in Birmingham has set fire to himself outside a job centre. The exact context of his self-immolation is not yet…
Workfare to be challenged in the courts.
Workfare is a programme whereby anyone who has been claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) for 6 months can be sent to work for major multinational companies like Tesco, Poundland and Sainsbury’s…
250,000 people on benefits to lose access to free education.
If you want to be educated don't be poor, don't be from an ethnic minority, don't be disabled and don't be a woman. That's essentially the message from new research…
Labour should tackle unemployment, not the unemployed
The responses to Ed Miliband's attack on the long term unemployed today have varied. Many in the Labour party have quite rightly slammed him. However, some have defended Miliband. Perhaps…
On the Coalition’s Plans for Welfare Reform
We don't know all the details of IDS's plans on welfare reform yet, but Fraser Nelson in The Spectator has a few details. It looks likely the plans will roll…