Black Triangle and fellow anti-workfare demonstrators blockade Salvation Army shop in Edinburgh
Mental Health Resistance Network: Court of Appeal rejects DWP appeal against landmark ruling by Upper Tribunal that the DWP-Atos Work Capability Assessment discriminates against people with mental health problems
Victory for disability rights campaigners as DWP loses appeal against Judicial Review ruling at the Court of Appeal
"This is the day, our day, Scotland's day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland's future and hear the infant cries of a new country,"
"Let prosperous people sustain a great welfare state. Let that state end the fear that comes with insecurity. Let us gift ourselves that Scotland."
'LIVES WORTH LIVING' : The origins, evolution and struggles of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States. May their memory give us strength ...
Blame for IDS's cover-up of WELFARE 'REFORM' DEATHS should not only be restricted purely to the Government, the DWP and its partner Atos, but must be extended to include the complicit and supine corporate media ...
Eight union leaders attack Labour's newly promoted employment spokeswoman for 'bashing the victims of failure'
Cancer killed my husband, but Atos took his dignity a long time ago says grieving widow
Starving Homeless Afghanistan War Veteran Charged £31 a week Bedroom Tax ~ in temporary accommodation
First Minister tells SNP Conference that Westminster is humiliating disabled people and that it is a disgrace that a UN Representative was forced to comment on an injustice in 21st Century Scotland
"My message to Hunt is unequivocal: Scotland rejects your politics, your attack on staff and your desire to destroy the real NHS" ~ Alex Neil
Within the confines of devolution and against the constraints of a Westminster government that does not share our vision ... We go the extra mile to pick up the pieces from bad Westminster decisions: Never has that been more the case than on the welfare reform programme ~ John Swinney
The vulnerable and disabled are paying the price of things as they are now. A No vote will guarantee that that will continue as the welfare state will be dismantled in Scotland ~ Nicola Sturgeon tells conference
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