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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Benefits highlights

  • British politics / Benefit cap shock? Labour perfidy is nothing new

    Those surprised by the Starmer’s contempt for the poor would do well to study the party’s 100-year history of anti-worker crimes in office.

    26 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

    It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital.

    25 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Immigrants make vital contributions to British pensions and welfare benefits

    Population study shows that without the essential part played by immigrant workers, our pensions and social service provisions would collapse.

    18 May 2024 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

    When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

    22 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

    A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

    13 Jul 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Destitution in Britain compounded by 2020 crash and covid shutdowns

    How can it be that there is so much want in the midst of so much plenty?

    4 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate

    When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.

    8 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Humbled by their own incompetence: ‘winter economic plan’ back to square one

    Lockdown exacerbates ruling class conflict over future for employers, employees, and unemployed.

    24 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost

    Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?

    29 Oct 2020 ,
  • Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

    Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

    24 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

    What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?

    8 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic

    Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.

    27 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge

    Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.

    31 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain

    Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.

    13 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’

    Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.

    7 Aug 2019 , Manchester Evening News
  • Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

    In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

    20 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

    A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

    13 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

    Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

    6 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty

    The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.

    13 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

    Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

    Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

    Where did the government get the idea of subsidising free labour for big companies like Tesco?

    1 Apr 2012 , Proletarian

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Benefits video

  • British politics / Starmer promises to ‘fix’ Britain – with racism, repression, austerity and war

    What really lies behind Sir Keir’s stirring rhetoric about ‘saving the NHS’ and ‘rebuilding the country’ while ‘restoring law and order’?

    9 Sep 2024,
  • Social wage / Queues for food reach 2km in London

    Why was it left to a Russian TV station to document this shameful state of affairs in our country?

    22 Mar 2021, RT
  • Capitalist crisis / The unenviable plight of the self-employed

    Workers are being thrown from pillar to post by the vagaries of capitalist production in crisis.

    31 Dec 2020,

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