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Time (to strike) at the bar?
Unrest is brewing at the Saint James Tavern in Brighton, where workers are calling for an end to zero-hours contracts, a fixed pay date, £11.50 an hour as a minimum for all staff and occupational sick pay MATT TRINDER reports
Staff at Saint James Tavern
[United Voices of the World (UVW) union]
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
“WE’RE showing people that we don’t have to put up with this — we can stand together and hopefully see some serious change in the industry.”
2022 is seeing a wave of industrial action sweep Britain. Rail workers, posties, outsourced NHS staff, perhaps even civil servants soon — wherever you look, you’ll find a determined fightback against years of deteriorating pay and working conditions.
Should we be surprised to hear that bar staff are set to join the list? Looking at the national picture, perhaps not, but focusing on the sector itself, most certainly.
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