Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are engaged in the widespread bullying and intimidation of benefit claimants in Jobcentres up and down the country. The evidence can no longer be denied and the union's leadership must now take steps to educate its members that solidarity is more than just a word on a leaflet during a PCS pay dispute, or else face the accusation of collaborating with the government's vicious assault on the most economically vulnerable in society under the rubric of austerity.

The hidden history of the Unemployment Movement underlines a threat so great to governments right and Left and unions, it has been scrubbed from worldwide recognition as the bearer of deep radical roots that not only defended the unemployed but also created the preconditions for a united fightback.

In `Prisoners of Want` we read of Frances unemployment movement and as we enter the post industrial age of its importance as a reference point to what we should avoid and could achieve to reshape all our futures in the struggles against  insecurity and social marginalisation.

The author argues that in the new economy, it's people, not skills or majors, that have lost value.

Sean Brendan Donnelly AKA NxtGen, a new father and working bin man is causing a stir again as his raps strike a thread which speaks of the dire crap being lived out daily by all of us.

I hope you listen and watch the video; the song included will blow you away and having looked over his other works I can only say we need to hear more of him but here’s hoping he doesn’t lose contact with his root`s.

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