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Opinion: Shielders Have Been Abandoned During Lockdown – It Can’t Happen Again

Jamie Hale

The government has failed shielding people in this second lockdown, argues Jamie Hale. It must act quickly and decisively to ensure they get the support they need and deserve.

The author being moved in a hoist by a personal assistant.

Analysis: Disabled People and Care Workers Must Build Common Cause in the Fight for Better Conditions

Jamie Hale

Organising carers against disabled people would do nothing to leverage power against the only people who can affect the real terms and conditions of the industry, writes Jamie Hale. The left must instead work to build solidarity between care workers and the disabled people who rely on them to ensure that neither is exploited.

Opinion: Experts by Experience: Benefit Claimants Should Design Our Social Security System

Ellen Clifford

People who have become experts on the benefits system by navigating it themselves are designing an alternative to the harmful and counterproductive model the government has created. Ellen Clifford explains.

Report: Two-Thirds of Coronavirus Deaths Are of People With Disabilities

Sophie K Rosa

With an alarmingly disproportionate number of disabled people dying under lockdown, disability rights activists are condemning the government and calling for an official inquiry into the deaths. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Opinion: Our Capitalist Society Has Always Devalued Disabled People. Coronavirus Has Made This Clear

Ellen Clifford

The last decade of austerity and welfare reform has been informed by an ideology that devalues disabled people on the basis of their perceived inability to produce profit. Covid-19 has brought that mindset out into the open, writes author and activist Ellen Clifford.

Disabled Feminism

On #KilljoyFM Ray Filar is joined by Tumu Johnson and Nikky Smith to discuss understandings of disability, the UK government's treatment of disabled people, and what it's like to be a disabled feminist.

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