Respect For The Unemployed & Benefit Claimants

Offices in Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham & London
On twitter: @DoleQueueUnite
Chairman
OUR Daily Newspaper: http://t. co /7BzOOSFnzf

We are a "Political Campaign Group" we focus on campaigns rather than just Welfare Rights - working with various organisations to raise awareness on issues around unemployment & benefit claimants.

We gain our political inspiration from Wal Hannington "National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM)" - The National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM) was originally formed out of the demobilised sailors' and soldiers' associations of 1918. However, as unemployment levels grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s the organisation came under the influence and control of the British Communist Party (CPGB).

We campaign for political change to address injustice & persecution of benefit claimants, continuing to build alliances with trade unions & progressive organisations around the world.

The less than supportive response of the Labour Party and the trade unions to the plight of the unemployed during the depression years has been cited to explain the attraction of the Communist Party for many who found themselves out of work during the inter-war years.

The NUWM as an organisation agitated not only for the unemployed but was also active in rent strikes and campaigns against evictions, as well as being involved in campaigns opposing the means test and government labour camps.