disability

Content about disability and struggles of disabled people.

Beneficiary bashing targets the sick

Beneficiary bashing targets the sick

The new National government is set to attack beneficiaries with a complete overhaul of how the social welfare system operates in New Zealand.

Man in coma loses benefits as he's classified "fit for work"

The government's decision to crack down on the disabled took a bizarre turn this week after a man in…

Communism: The real movement to abolish disability

The following article is a tentative attempt to combine communist theory with the insights of disability activists and theorists in order to…

Motler, Leonard Augustine, 1888-1967

A short biography of Leonard Motler, English anarchist, deaf mute and activist against the First World War.

Creating a Movement: The Struggle for Inclusive Education in the UK, 1990–2006, by Stefan Sczcelkun

Tom Jennings appreciates this snapshot of a campaign against the segregation of…

Peter Hain

Remploy workers to strike

Workers at 28 factories due to be closed by Remploy are being balloted for strike action.

Students have blockaded the University.

Protests continue at Gallaudet University

Deaf students continue to occupy Gallaudet University in Washington DC in protest against the incoming President.

Deaf students occupy in Washington DC

Deaf students are demonstrating across North America in solidarity with students occupying Gallaudet University, Washington DC (the world's only…

Mining communities, unemployment and incapacity benefits

As the government prepares to slash incapacity benefits, Rob Ray looks at a report brought out last year which is amongst the starkest examples of how incapacity has been used in recent years to hide much of the country's unemployment problems.

Labour's cruellest cut - Incapacity benefits in detail

Iain Mackay explores the government's proposals to cut benefits for the disabled - claimed by nearly…

Incapacity benefit cuts

New Labour cut back on benefits to the disabled.