Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg: […]
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go […]
Claimants are asking the courts to again quash the decision to close the Independent Living Fund
All I ask of you is for your help. Help us save the independent living fund from closing on 30th June 2015.
Black Triangle DPAC and Boycott Workfare call on PCS to ballot members on non-cooperation with DWP sanctions
What’s at stake in the European Elections Tomorrow is polling day; the 2014 European Elections are upon us. The Scottish […]
Please sign this petition and encourage friends, family and your networks to do the same: LETTER TO THE ICC AT […]
Study's authors surprised by poor performance after they find only Malta has more deaths of children under five
By Rob McDowall A raft of changes introduced by the Conservative Lib-Dem Coalition has once again made ‘welfare’ and ‘benefits’ […]
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith's new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting
For the BMA not to act 'is in our view to be complicit in the deaths of innocent people whose only crime is to have the misfortune to be sick and/or disabled' ~ Black Triangle Campaign
"History will not hold them guiltless."
BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: 'The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government's pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.'
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy.
Benefits Street: A healthy media would stand up to the powerful and wealthy. Ours targets the poor and voiceless – […]
Running on empty: the desperate families forced to turn to the food bank for survival
Disabled Dennis Jones has been found dead after his benefits were cut five weeks before he died because he had returned a form late
Don't let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man's true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net
We Are Spartacus releases its 'almanac of condemnation', a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies
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