Political and Campaigning Groups

Disability related

• British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) - run entirely by people with disabilities, set up to promote full equality and participation in society by disabled people.
• Disability Rights Commission - the official disability NGO
• Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) - campaigns for disability rights using direct action, eg civil disobedience and protests. Website does not appear to have been updated since the late 1990s.
• Fight For Heating - a campaign for a heating allowance for people with disabilities and families with disabled children
• Time To Get Equal campaign against disablism, backed by Scope.
• IRFD - Diabetes Discrimination in Employment campaigning site

For the whole community

• Unite Against Fascism anti-Nazi coalition
• Keep Our NHS Public - stop NHS cuts and privatisation
• Socialist Workers Party (SWP) - revolutionary socialist organisation, fighting for equality and workers' power
• Respect Coalition - left-wing political party, of which the SWP is a part

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