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Disability, austerity and resistance

Roddy Slorach

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Description:WHO ARE 'the disabled'? For years, the media and successive governments have talked about disability as if it is a lifestyle choice adopted by benefit cheats and scroungers faking or exaggerating their needs.Now the ConDems want to trash the rights and reforms of the last 40 years, and to turn the clock back to a time when 'genuinely disabled' people were the objects of charity or pity, and otherwise out of sight and out of mind.Why are disabled people the target of so many attacks D— not only on their benefits, but also from a raft of government policies? It is these policies, and the wider attack on our welfare state, which have helped create a climate of increasing public hostility. It isn't having legs or arms that don't work which makes people disabled. Those of us who are blind or deaf, or who have mental health support needs or learning difficulties, aren't unfit or incapable because of our impairments. It is living in a society based on profit that turns such impairments into a problem.Disability discrimination is a relatively recent phenomenon in history. It can be overcome. But to achieve this kind of change, our society must be transformed from top to bottom. To win real equality for all, nothing less than revolution is necessary.A Socialist Worker pamphlet—for further reading go to www.socialistworker.co.ukWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Disability, austerity and resistance. To get started finding Disability, austerity and resistance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 34

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Publisher: Socialist Workers Party

Release: 2012

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Description: WHO ARE 'the disabled'? For years, the media and successive governments have talked about disability as if it is a lifestyle choice adopted by benefit cheats and scroungers faking or exaggerating their needs.Now the ConDems want to trash the rights and reforms of the last 40 years, and to turn the clock back to a time when 'genuinely disabled' people were the objects of charity or pity, and otherwise out of sight and out of mind.Why are disabled people the target of so many attacks D— not only on their benefits, but also from a raft of government policies? It is these policies, and the wider attack on our welfare state, which have helped create a climate of increasing public hostility. It isn't having legs or arms that don't work which makes people disabled. Those of us who are blind or deaf, or who have mental health support needs or learning difficulties, aren't unfit or incapable because of our impairments. It is living in a society based on profit that turns such impairments into a problem.Disability discrimination is a relatively recent phenomenon in history. It can be overcome. But to achieve this kind of change, our society must be transformed from top to bottom. To win real equality for all, nothing less than revolution is necessary.A Socialist Worker pamphlet—for further reading go to www.socialistworker.co.ukWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Disability, austerity and resistance. To get started finding Disability, austerity and resistance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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