In shame ridden angst statement released by the PCS Union on the final day of the TUC conference, PCS president Janice Godrich speaking on “Standing up for the poor and vulnerable” in spearheading the defence of the welfare state said “The workfare schemes are a disgraceful stain on the welfare state our movement created” Which sees the “unemployed bullied” in a “society that can no longer call itself civilised when it refuses to support its most vulnerable”.

Read more: PCS Union President Admits the Work Program is a Stain it helped Create.

The unemployed have reason to look at the future as the stark privations that face us today are channelled by governments into an unrecognisable parody of welfare Hell. Out of this emerges a snapshot of week from a diary that takes a look into the future where work-camps have returned, food vouchers are the norm and privatisation has turned us into commodities.

As a humorous take on what life might be like, the writer Jimi known only by his forum pseudonym `Boltonmanc` at the Unemployment Movement website says his inspiration were the dire stories that confront the unemployed daily. Comments on it have nothing but praise for its imaginative narrative that connected with the websites members in a way that got them roaring with laughter but at the same time its impenetrable insight had many crying at just how real the prospects of it happening might occur.

Read more: Unemployment a look into the Future with Humour and Awareness

Dave Garroch looks at the unemployed struggles between the Wars in a review of two books about the period – Harry McShane’s “No Mean Fighter”  (Pluto Press) and Wal Hannington’s  “Unemployed Struggles (Lawrence and Wishart).

In March 1921 Harry McShane led his first demonstration, “…a couple of thousand turned up and they were really wild and angry men. Some of them were carrying hand grenades they had brought back from the front – I also knew that some even carried guns on demonstrations. They were a very militant, threatening crowd.” They had good reason to be. They were among the 1.5 million unemployed in that month. In percentage terms that meant about 12% of those covered by unemployment insurance.

Read more: We will not starve in Silence - The unemployed struggles of the 1920s

Housing Benefit Cuts not just affecting the unemployed but also the low paid will have a devastating effect on people lives so what is in line for you.    

The only way we can stop this is by organising as a single voice, not as some protest group that marches from A to B but one that first protects our own communities and next disrupts the government’s ability to work as well as challenge the public into a conversation through road/train blocks.

Think it won’t work, just think about France whenever its Unions have a strike; it doesn’t take many only the courage to start to say NO!

OUR SILENCE WILL BE THEIR VICTORY!      

Read more: Devastating Housing Benefit Cuts