For As Long As the DWP Has Been Killing People, Disabled Activists Have Been Fighting Back
China Mills
From ‘sectioning’ the DWP to quietly submitting endless FOI requests, disabled people have sustained a decade of resistance.
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To Solve Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, We Must Fundamentally Change Society
Mark Brown
Just asking for a little more treatment here, a little less hatred there won’t cut it.
Autism Is Not a Disease
Jodie Hare
Stop trying to 'cure' us and learn to understand us.
Priti Patel Is Right About One Thing: Our Asylum System Is Fundamentally Broken
Zoe Gardner
We need one grounded in care and respect.
How We Won: The Care Workers Who Struck for a Living Wage
James Greig
'We delivered this win.'
Will the Tory Sleaze Scandal Finally Nix the Party’s Polling Lead?
Ell Folan
The PM may not be able to bluff and bluster his way out of this one.
Deaf People Are Paying Thousands to Learn Their Own Language
Liam O'Dell
British sign language is being decimated by Tory neglect.
How We Won: The Local Activists That Took on Big Oil on the Isle of Wight
Florence Wildblood
‘It proves that David can overcome Goliath.’
Why I Was Wrong to Write Off Extinction Rebellion in 2018
Chris Saltmarsh
XR’s internal frictions have largely propelled it forward.
Sex Worker Rights Are Disability Rights
Sophie K Rosa
There's a reason so many sex workers are disabled: the industry is far more accessible than most others.
Chile Was the Birthplace of Neoliberalism. This Election Could Bury It
Michael Chessum
A radical socialist runs for president against a Pinochet-imitator.
Disabled People Don’t Want the Right to Die – We Want the Right to Live
Penny Pepper
Society already happily assists our dying.
How to Solve the Cost of Living Crisis? Pay Rises, Now!
James Meadway
Leave interest rates out of it.
Britain’s Inhumane Benefits System Is Giving People PTSD
Jay Watts
Smile, you’re on universal credit.
The West Botched Cop26, Then Blamed China
Aaron Bastani
The EU spent €13bn on new oil and gas projects during Cop26 alone.
In Keir Starmer’s Anti-Racist Universe, Palestinians Don’t Count
Barnaby Raine
Keir Starmer is a racist endeavour.
Yes, Mental Health Counts As Disability
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Just as our society is constructed around people whose ‘physical’ bodies work a certain way, it is also built to centre people who think, feel and act a certain way.
So What’s the Problem With Peter Singer?
Lucy Burke
Discrimination is quite literally killing disabled people, now more than ever.