With Professor Roger Seifert and Angela Grant (DWP President at the Public and Commercial Services Union). Chaired by MML Archivist Matt Dunne.

Roger Seifert will discuss how unemployment is entirely created by those in positions of power within the political economy of the state. It is not an act of God. It is not an inevitable outcome of the workings of economics, nor indeed the result of bad luck and whimsical elements of the human condition. It is the deliberate consequence of specific policies, and as such can be remedied and eliminated. The unemployed themselves are usually blamed for being unemployed by the very people who pursued the economic programmes that ended in such waste. The organised fight back, lead by the NUWM, combined a stinging rebuke for those that allowed unemployment to ravage the nation; a set of practical policies to end unemployment; and suggestions for the mitigation of the misery endured in the here and now by the unemployed and their families. In so doing the movement united a wide range of groups in a common cause, and breathed solidarity into the labour movement otherwise prone to division and fragmentation. This contribution will analyse the causes and consequences of unemployment, and how only through class struggle can it be eradicated.
 

Angela Grant will cover the conditions our unemployed workers are experiencing today and the failings of successive governments to provide any real security.  PCS demand a fit for purpose and fully funded social secuitry service that provides support at the time of need, and allows unemployed workers and our elderly, sick and disabled citizens to live with indepenence and dignity.

Angela Grant, Public and Commercial Services Union.
Angela worrked for DWP since 2006, was elected member of the union's Group Executive since 2014 and is currently DWP Group President.  She sits on the union's National Executive and National Black Members' Committees.  She is an Equality Advocate, campaigning for womens' and disability rights, and with a detemined endeavour to win for our class a fair and just social security service, to aid all in need.
 

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