Summer/Autumn 2010

Formation of The Mental Health Resistance Network set up “by people who live with mental distress in order to defend ourselves from the assault on us by a cruel government”.

What: The Mental Health Resistance Network was set up “by people who live with mental distress in order to defend ourselves from the assault on us by a cruel government”.

Why significant: Like Black Triangle, the group will play a key part in campaigning against welfare reform, particularly around benefit-related deaths. The grassroots group will play an important part in bringing a judicial review claim against Iain Duncan Smith over the harm caused by the WCA and the failure to seek further medical evidence (see July 2012, and 22 May 2013).