UBI: a recipe for universal misery

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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 ,
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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The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims
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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
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Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?
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Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president
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UBI: a recipe for universal misery
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Why gay rights is not a class issue
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JK Rowling’s stance against the thought police
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Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

Benefits highlights

Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

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

Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

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

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

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

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’.

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.

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.

Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

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

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