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Clichy hotel workers up the pressure for in-house contracts
Workers at the Clichy Holiday Inn in Paris came to Britain to protest against the firm’s owner’s appalling employment practices. JOE HAYNS reports
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
ON Saturday morning, eight weeks into their indefinite strike, workers from the Clichy Holiday Inn, Paris, demonstrated outside the investor-class InterContinental Hotel in London.
The Clichy hotel is operated by InterContinental Hotels Group, by revenue the biggest hotelier in the world — the InterContinental is a group flagship.
An overnight Paris-London coach was co-organised by the CGT’s (Confederation Generale du Travail) hotel workers’ section and the CNT (Confederation Nationale du Travail).
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NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY