Edinburgh Anarchist Federation fully endorses the national day of action called by grassroots campaign Boycott Workfare. Join the protest in Edinburgh: Assemble 12 noon, Hunter Square, Saturday 3rd March, to visit some nearby businesses using unpaid workfare ‘volunteers’ to work for free. Workfare is a government scheme that makes people on benefits work for their...
Did we say we were sleeping? No time for that… Wednesday, 24th November, Edinburgh Meet at 1pm Bristo Square or 1pm High Riggs Job Centre Defend Education! On 10/11/10 a national student demonstration saw 50,000 students march in a magnificent show of strength against the Con Dems’ savage attacks on education. The Tories want...
Fraud-riddled sponges off of the tax system A4e, who specialise in forcing benefit claimants into unpaid “voluntary” positions (featured here before), are the target of countrywide protests this Wednesday at 11am. Their Edinburgh office is at Earl Grey Street (i.e. Lothian Road). Details at Indymedia. Local organisers, Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty, condemn A4e’s multi-millionaire...
Official: A4e “universal failure”
A post at Libcom highlights a mostly-ignored parliamentary report on the “Welfare to Work” programme run by A4e and Reed. Its damning conclusion: The programme, which was implemented by private contractors led by A4e and Reed, “universally failed by considerable margins to meet their contractual targets for helping claimants.” The report describes how “private...
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