Disability
Autism and performative awareness
10 December 2020 As autistic people become more visible in public life, Errol Kerr examines how brands are seeking to repackage themselves as ‘autism friendly'
The shirkers united will never be defeated
8 December 2020 Nic Murray argues the need for collective solidarity and organising amongst welfare claimants as Covid-19’s economic fallout threatens to render thousands jobless
A little more action: theatre, disability, and Elvis
20 August 2020 Elizabeth McGuirk interviews Claire Cunningham, the internationally acclaimed disabled artist, about taking risks, engaging audiences beyond our own bubble, and the enduring power of The King
The politics of Covid-19: government contempt for disabled people
23 March 2020 In the first in a series of frontline responses to Covid-19, Jamie Hale explains the challenges facing disabled people - and their demands of the British government. Published in partnership with The World Transformed
On our own terms
1 October 2015 Emma Hughes spoke to Andy Greene from Disabled People Against Cuts
A poem in memory of our disabled dead
4 December 2013 Merry Cross writes to mark this week's International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Getting rich on disability denial
19 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?
11 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
29 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
19 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
13 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
13 September 2011 Anne-Marie O’Reilly presents a roundtable discussion of grassroots community organisers
The bedrock of autonomy
15 August 2011 A life beyond illness rests on a delicate and complex web, writes Mike Marqusee
Atos: tick-box tyranny
27 February 2011 Tim Hunt looks at Atos, the company charged with assessing who should receive disability benefit
