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The War on Disabled People by Ellen Clifford
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BOUND up in the relationship between capitalism and disability, disabled people are in a continuous war.
They are paying for a financial crisis not of their making and their human rights are being eroded due to austerity cuts, issues sharply bought into focus in Ellen Clifford’s book The War on Disabled People.
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