Monday 3rd of December is International Persons
with Disabilities Day[i],
organised by the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (SCRPD). By decree of the Department for Work &
Pensions[ii],
this is the day sick and disabled people in the UK will face the possibility of
forced unpaid labour (workfare) or lose their entitlement to benefits.[iii]
The
virulent web of workfare spat out of successive governments’ spin-machines
reaches ever-more disturbing heights that plunge human beings into an ever-more
precarious existence.
As
Capitalism restructures its ailing skeleton, it is sweeping up everyone who can
be exploited in its path; squeezing out every last bit of labour from our already shackled torsos;
and vilifying anyone who dares to access welfare, in order for welfare’s
scarcely social objective to collapse.
Underneath
the collapse, Capitalism is consuming the infrastructure of welfare and
transforming it into private venture. Government looks on with a greedy smile
as its ideology is fulfilled, along with its coffers, ears closed to our voices
sinking in a poverty shed by the richest classes.
On Monday 3rd of
December we should be retaliating against this no-ones government and sending a
clear message that we’re not gonna’ be fucked with. That’s what International
Day of Persons with Disabilities should be about, and not some drab UN
convention-celebration[iv]
that, along with all the other conventions on our ‘rights’, mocks us as human
beings.
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