TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Helping the economy should not mean bullying the disabled
EMMA COTTON explains the significance of a recent win at the High Court for a disability rights campaigner against the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions over a ‘misleading’ and ‘unfair’ consultation on social security cuts
Ellen Clifford (right) outside the High Court with her solicitor from Public Law Project, Aoife O’Reilly
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
DESPITE losing in the High Court over proposals to make changes to the Work Capability Assessment, the government is pushing ahead with plans that will further impoverish disabled people on a mass scale.
In January, the judgment was handed down in the legal case taken by disabled activist Ellen Clifford against the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
The judge, Mr Justice Calver, found in her favour, ruling that the consultation on the proposals was “misleading,” “rushed” and “unfair,” squashing plans by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to cut nearly £5,000 a year in social security (“welfare benefits”) from almost half-a-million disabled people.
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