War on Disabled People Clifford Ellen
War on Disabled People Clifford Ellen Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic…
Specifikacia War on Disabled People Clifford Ellen
War on Disabled People Clifford Ellen
Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Punitive welfare regimes, the removal of essential support and services, and an ideological regime that seeks to deny disability has resulted in a situation described by the UN as a 'human catastrophe'.In this searing account, Ellen Clifford - an activist who has been at the heart of resistance against the war on disabled people - reveals precisely how and why this state of affairs has come about. Since then, driven by the Tory government's obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, the situation for disabled people in Britain has continued to deteriorate.
From spineless political opposition to self-interested