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  • 1 Feb 2012
    Social media, disability, welfare, work and calculating 'benefit'

    In recent months social media has proved its worth against some harping critics. The uprisings across the Middle East, the worldwide Occupy protest against unsustainable corporate neo-capitalism and the Spartacus Report revolt of disabled and sick people over punitive welfare cuts and changes: all these movements for change have benefited in a variety of ways from web 2.0 and beyond, from online crowd-sourcing, from twitter, from virals, and from 'internetworking'.

  • 15 Jan 2012
    Cuts to child tax credit result in more UK children thrown into poverty

    Shocking statistics from the End Child Poverty campaign show that nearly 60 per cent of children living in poverty have at least one parent who works.

  • 31 Dec 2011
    TUC announces seminar on disability and employment

    The Trades Union Congress is hosting a major seminar on developing a positive agenda for disability and employment in face of government reforms and cuts.

  • 13 Dec 2011
    Low-paid workers hit worst by joblessness, research shows

    If they become unemployed, low-paid workers are most likely to be on the dole for more than six months, according to a new TUC analysis.

  • 18 Oct 2011
    Critics of arms trade evicted from London Graduate Fair

    A group of people opposed to the arms trade have been removed by police from the London Graduate Fair after peacefully protesting against BAE and Raytheon.

  • 20 Nov 2010
    Body in skip triggers human rights outcry in Saudi Arabia

    Amnesty International has called on Saudi authorities to protect domestic workers from abuse, after the discovery of the mutilated body of an Indonesian woman.

  • 12 Nov 2010
    Welfare specialists slam Duncan Smith's plans for benefits

    Welfare specialists have contradicted claims that government reforms will simplify the benefits system. They said the reforms could make it more complicated.

  • 11 Nov 2010
    Morally amazed

    I'd expected my views to be attacked when I appeared on the Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 last night. What I had not expected was the extremism of the views pitted against mine. It's a sign of just how far to the right British politics has moved – particularly on issues of welfare and employment.

  • 11 Sep 2010
    Cuts mean unemployment is here to stay, says TUC

    The TUC says it may take 14 years for the private sector to create enough jobs to return employment levels to those before the recession struck.

  • 20 Apr 2010
    Clegg's no green, says Green Party

    The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has come under attack from the Green Party for promoting the Liberal Democrats as the environmental option in the election.