No More Deaths by Welfare

'An enraging and energising call to action against the many murderous continuities between state violence and state neglect and the wilful construction of conditions of death in the name of 'welfare'. Abolition means building something different and better together, this work helps us to think how'

-- Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism

'This brilliant and essential book exposes how stigma and violence have been designed into the UK welfare state and demonstrates how we can and must abolish the current system and build life-affirming alternatives'

-- Imogen Tyler, author of Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality

'This hugely important book needed to be written, and there was no-one better qualified to write it than China Mills, who has been at the heart of investigating and researching these deaths for two decades and – perhaps most importantly – has spent years building powerful relationships with those whose lives have been shattered by the Department for Work and Pensions. Somehow, she finds a way to combine searing anger at the deaths inflicted on so many people with the empathy and generosity that will be needed to destroy this oppressive panopticon and find a path towards a kinder, gentler future'

-- John Pring, author of The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence

'Mills offers an erudite critique of the life-denying logics embedded within our social assistance systems and a compelling vision for a new welfare architecture grounded in the affirmation of all human life. A powerful corrective to both the anti-welfare common sense that dominates contemporary political imagination and the state-perpetrated violence rampant in contemporary policy, we should read this book - and especially the voices of lived experience it amplifies - with great care'

-- Jamie Redman, Research Associate at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University

'A necessary book and a testament to what research can look like when it's actually led by disabled and minoritised activists and when it opts out of just urging 'leaders' to improve systems, delivering instead a devastating analysis of how such systems are in need of dismantling. It is not easy to stay attuned to writing this and see it through nor should it be easy to read. But read we must, especially now as this violence accelerates'

-- Stan Papoulias, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College Lo