Knowsley Fight The Bedroom Tax embrace fascists, exclude antifascists The growing Merseyside movement against the bedroom tax has astonished and delighted long-standing…
Welcome to the occupation Published February 2012. Written for Shift's Precarity series, the Introduction to which can be read here.
“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…
The Industrial Workers of the World and the unemployed In Edmonton and Calgary in the Depression of 1913-1915 A paper by David Schultz studying the IWW's efforts to organize the unemployed of…
First successes in struggle against against forced labour in the Netherlands It has already been over two years since Doorbraak started an experiment in Leiden of using ‘organizing’ elements in the battle against the government cuts. We have reported back a few times, and this time we can report the first actual results!
Cait Reilly win is good, but ending workfare for keeps needs more Today's ruling that every part of workfare other than the Mandatory Work Activity scheme breaks the…
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…
My experience with the work programme so far I was recently reffered onto the Work Programme by the Job Centre on very sketchy grounds. Yesterday I had my initial introductory group meeting…
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…
Strikers' handbook: A claimants' union benefits guide A guide produced by claimants for strikers during the UK miners strike 1984-1985.
A new start? Welfare changes and the labour-power shortage An attempt to understand the changes to welfare in Australia by looking at the impact of the labour…
Benefit envy without benefit - Junge Linke Junge Linke discuss the government's mobilisation of benefits envy as part of its assault on living standards.
