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Feature: How Healthcare Went From State Responsibility to Workplace ‘Perk’

Moya Lothian-McLean

As the welfare state recedes, employers are increasingly offering healthcare and income protection as workplace ‘benefits’. Moya Lothian-Mclean asks, what does this mean for worker power?

Opinion: We Cap Fuel Prices. Why Not Food?

Ella Thorold

Supermarket price-gouging is pushing millions of Britons toward starvation. The solution is simple, writes Ella Thorold.

Opinion: Britain’s Inhumane Benefits System Is Giving People PTSD

Jay Watts

The psychological violence of welfare applications is destroying our mental health - and an increasingly two-tier benefits system won’t help, writes clinical psychologist Jay Watts.

Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.

The Bastani Factor: The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing

Humanity is getting older. But while the old outnumbering the young is one of the supreme achievements of our species, it comes with major challenges. Aaron Bastani on a crisis set to re-define societies around the world which, for the 21st century at least, is every bit as disruptive as climate change.

Opinion: Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

Benjamin Morgan

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare and welfare provision must be made available to everyone, regardless of their immigration status, argues Benjamin Morgan.

Novara FM: Welfare ‘Dependency’ and the Crisis of Work

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the raft of incoming welfare reforms and their relationship to the political economy of austerity and any supposed 'recovery'.

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