“The revolution starts in the ATOS smoking area” - on welfare, addiction, and dependency A blog about welfare reform from a social care worker's perspective, and the…
Asda, workfare and company scrip Are the UK government planning to use Workfare placements and welfare store-cards as part of a state-run 'Truck system'?
Alfie Meadows and Zak King found not guilty - two years, three months, and three trials later After years of uncertainty and two mistrials, Alfie Meadows and Zak King have been…
The “war on the unions” - its meaning and the response we need Stories about the government threatening a “crack down” on trade union power emerge almost on a loop…
Tim Burgess: 'celebrity' Charlatan scab As journalists at the BBC strike to defend their jobs while senior execs get huge payoffs, former front man of middle-of-the-road Britpop act The…
“The real enemy?” Why we should reject left unity as a concept A number of pieces have been written recently on “unity” amongst the left and the ways we can…
Unity and solidarity with claimants should be practical, not just theoretical With attacks on claimants and the unemployed escalating, campaigners and trade unions have made…
Free standing column “FREE STANDING COLUMN” - This A5, double-sided photocopy from the student protest on November 30th 2010 was the first thing produced by the group that was later to become Deterritorial Support Group. Some of the strands of ultra-left rhetoric are clear but it has a much more tabloid tone. The drop-shadows remained. The term “Wolf-Eyed replicant” to describe Nick Clegg may have been coined by China Mieville.
Healthcare workers: where we stand-fighting on two fronts Basic overview of the terrain that health workers defending their terms and conditions is being…
Liverpool Against the Cuts occupy Liverpool City Council chamber While delegates from Labour councils across the country met at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool…
Rejecting the compulsory jobs guarantee and the left's work ethic A look at Labour's compulsory jobs guarantee and the problematic narratives that inform the debate…
Benefit envy without benefit - Junge Linke Junge Linke discuss the government's mobilisation of benefits envy as part of its assault on living standards.
