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The UN Inquiry and UN visit to UK to examine the grave and systematic violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons wit...

‘The UN is to visit the UK to investigate whether Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms have caused “grave or systematic violations” of di...

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More than 80 people a month are now dying after being declared ‘fit for work’. The safety net that used to be there for the most vulnerabl...

Non-existent benefits claimant featured in second Department for Work and Pensions leaflet describing how his jobseeker’s allowance was cu...

A small group of Labour MPS, including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday lodged an early day motion calling on the governm...

If any media had reported the situation of Cameron covering up the “worst and largest single case of banking fraud to have ever emerged...

"We’ve watched our town centres deteriorate. "We’re watched our communities decline... "One in five children in my con...

Walking through Mayfair you would not believe that this could be a country where the poorest are abandoned to survive on just a few poun...

Unite, the UK's largest trade union, has backed left-wing firebrand Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership. The...

No vote: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech at an anti-austerity rally in Syntagma Square in Athens  Brave Greek vote...

Dear Mr Duncan Smith, We are fellow Catholics and people who were brought up in the Catholic faith. We are writing to express our c...

The Conservative government’s policies risk systematically stripping children of their rights, a report for the United Nations has found...

More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling on the government to publish statistics into the number of benefit claiman...

Campaign against introduction of psychological therapies into Job Centres MARCH ON STREATHAM JOB CENTRE – FRIDAY 26 TH JUN...

‘Unemployment is being “rebranded” by the government as a psychological disorder, a new study claims. Those that do not exhibit a “po...

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While this death is quite different from the austerity-suicides seen in recent months, it is nonetheless the direct result of the disastrous...

Work programme providers have been putting lives at risk by failing to carry out costly home visits before referring vulnerable employme...

Downing Street has rejected a renewed move by Iain Duncan Smith to cut child benefit from parents with more than two children as a way ...

So, last week the Conservative government’s plans were officially rolled out, rubber stamped, by way of the Queen’s customary speech, ...

We can now confidently conclude that the Conservative manifesto was written in the expectation that David Cameron would have it watered ...

People across the country will be taking part in a different kind of protest – on the day of the state opening of Parliament. May 27 will...

A national demonstration against austerity has been organised by ‘The People’s Assembly Against Austerity’ to t...

Hundreds of thousands of British citizens were left unable to vote around the world and across the UK after registering to vote by post. ...

200,000 + Voting papers were reported missing from a van that was stolen in London bound for Hastings/Eastbourne, East Sussex, Then the Tor...

As Michael Gove prepares his attempt to repeal this fundamental act, here’s some myth-busting about what it is, and how it works In ...

Reblogged from The Void: When the richest 20% of people vote to attack the poorest 20% – a crude but not unfair summary of what just h...