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Benefit cuts will make patients homeless
by Daphne Liddle
THE CANCER charity Macmillan Support has warned that planned cuts to the benefits of the long-term sick could see cancer sufferers unable to keep up with their rent or mortgage and facing eviction from their homes while they are trying to fight the disease.
The House of Lords in January threw out the cuts that would affect people in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) — these are the people who are seriously ill but might at some time in the future be able to do some work.
But the Tory government put the cuts to Employment Support Allowance (ESA) back in the Bill last week.
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Benefit cuts will make patients homeless
LRC charts Labour transformation campaign
by New Worker correspondent
THE LABOUR Representation Committee (LRC) met last Saturday for a special general meeting to debate building the Labour movement after Jeremy Corbyn’s success in winning the Labour leadership.
In particular the meeting, which packed London’s Conway Hall, debated how to work with the new Momentum organisation to consolidate Corbyn’s victory and to carry forward the work of transforming the party into the voice of the working class — the purpose it was created for a century ago.
John McDonnell, now Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, was upbeat. He ran through a history of the events of last year, pointing out that at the beginning no one in the LRC would have thought it possible that Corbyn could win the leadership of the party.
And he thanked all those present for their role in that process.
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LRC charts Labour transformation campaign