No More Deaths by Welfare

No More Deaths by Welfare exposes the lethal mechanics of Britain’s social security system that has been weaponised against the very people it claims to support. China Mills reveals how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses the slow violence of bureaucracy to enact a modern-day form of democide against disabled people.

Connecting the dots between the DWP and the arms trade, the immigration system and colonial extraction, she traces a dark history of a system based on the concept of the 'undeserving poor', leading to the modern scrounger myth perpetrated by the state and media.

But it is more than a chronicle of harm. Drawing on interviews with disabled activists, the book is a testament to resistance. From activists chaining wheelchairs to block traffic to the quiet, powerful mutual aid practised from hospital beds, it amplifies the voices of a network of disabled folks, undocumented people, and abolitionists, with each centring disabled people’s creativity, resistance and expertise in demanding accountability.