action around unemployment
by Brian Rylance For those who experienced the deprivation caused by the recession of the 1980s, and were galvanized by the strength of the fight against it, there can be a feeling of hopelessness at...
View Articlecrisis ploughs on in united states
by Dennis Marcucci from Philadelphia Worst than expected economic reports and job cut announcements show that the prospects for working people in the USA and around the world are going to worsen. After...
View Articleunemployment, work and capitalism: 12th april london forum
The next of The Commune’s London public meetings on the themes of the election will be looking at unemployment. We will be discussing not only redundancies caused by the current crisis but also the...
View Articlethe deficit! the deficit! but what about unemployment?
by Oisín Mac Giollamóir Listening to the debate in the media today you would conclude that there is consensus amongst economists that the key problem of the UK economy is the deficit. And the key...
View Articlestop demonising the unemployed
by Duncan Smith Unemployment figures were up to 2.5 million by the end of March, and there’s no reason to think they won’t get any higher: some estimates put them as high as 3.3 million by the end of...
View Articlewho benefits from cuts?
by Adam Ford European governments have been announcing public spending cuts almost daily since they agreed a €750 billion ‘rescue package’ for the euro currency a fortnight back. Greece (€30 billion),...
View Articlefor the right not to work!
by Steve Ryan The recent right to work conference was apparently a great success with some 600 people attending, a demo in support of BA workers after and a call to demonstrate on 22nd June, Budget...
View Articlemore work, no pay
editorial of The Commune On 7th November the ConDem coalition announced its plan to force unemployed people to work a 30-hour week of manual labour to ‘earn’ the £65 Jobseekers’ Allowance. Tory Work...
View Articlereflections on june 30th strike day: a movement taking its first steps
For Izzy Parrott, the J30 day of action was about more than pensions: but it didn’t have the feel of a wide, grassroots movement. I went to the strike with Hackney Welfare Action, a benefit claimant...
View Articlegiz a fightback: the ‘80s unemployed
Unemployment threatens to hit early-1980s levels: but how can the jobless stand up to the government? Terry Liddle reflects on his experience of the unemployed movement in those years In the early...
View Articleback in the DHSS
Terry Liddle looks back on a life working at the Department of Health and Social Security Having graduated from university on to the dole and then working on a short-term Community Enterprise...
View Articlelove nor money: unpaid work at tesco
Sharon Borthwick looks at the absurd ideology behind last month’s row over workfare schemes What a joke to have a national minimum wage if you are then allowed to pay your employees nothing at all....
View Article‘how do we break workfare?’ conference report
On Saturday May 26th around fifty activists from around the country (although mostly the South-East) met in Brighton for a conference entitled ‘how do we break workfare?’. Here, Ollie Sutherland...
View Articleliverpool anti-workfare action report
Adam Ford took to the streets as part of a lively national campaign On Saturday, around forty activists responded to a callout by Liverpool Solidarity Federation, and picketed companies profiting...
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