A Solidarity pamphlet by Roddy Slorach (Socialist Workers Party Britain and author A very capitalist condition: A history and politics of disability), with contributions on the NDIS from an NDSI participant and an ASU member.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is facing a savage attack. The Labor Party, which introduced the system when it was in government in 2013, wants to slash $35 billion from the scheme over the next four years.

This will destroy people’s lives and rip away services that have given them hope for the first time.

Why is the NDIS really attack? How does the scheme work, and why is its market-based approach a problem? What’s behind disability discrimination, and how can we get rid of it? And what exactly is disability?

This pamphlet shows that the oppression of disabled people is rooted in a capitalist system designed to deliver profits for a minority instead of meeting the needs of the majority—and argues that liberation from its horrors demands revolutionary change.