Disability

Getting rich on disability denial February 2013
Debbie Jolly reports on US insurance giant Unum, whose ‘biopsychosocial model’ is being used to justify the devastating cuts in disability benefits

The benefit freeze: taking from the poorest to give to the richest? January 2013
Debbie Jolly and Merry Cross from the Disabled People Against Cuts group, write that the Coalition’s promise to protect disabled people has been proven to be an outright lie

Able to fight: How disabled people are taking on the Tories August 2012
As the Paralympics open, disabled people are facing an onslaught of cuts. But as Lorna Stephenson discovers, disabled activists are a force to be reckoned with

Atos sponsors the Paralympics? It’s enough to make you scream August 2012
The role played by disabled groups, far from being one of passive victims, is exemplary for collective resistance, writes Michael Calderbank

Remploy: Factories floored August 2012
There has been a wave of resistance to plans to close Remploy factories, which provide safe employment to disabled people. Tim Hunt reports

Organising ourselves September 2011
Anne-Marie O’Reilly presents a roundtable discussion of grassroots community organisers

The bedrock of autonomy August 2011
A life beyond illness rests on a delicate and complex web, writes Mike Marqusee

Atos: tick-box tyranny February 2011
Tim Hunt looks at Atos, the company charged with assessing who should receive disability benefit