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French workers unbowed in their struggle for justice
The momentum behind a wave of strikes and protests over pension reforms shows no sight of abating, writes DENNIS BROE
Aux armes, citoyens: Trade unionists march in Marseille
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
TIME magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its person of the year last week, but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to counter the effects of an ever more rapacious neoliberal capitalism, the real person of the year who epitomises this moment may be the French public worker, on strike now for over two weeks to save the French pension system.
People’s movements in Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Chile, Colombia and Bolivia after the coup have all challenged their various governments and made local demands for equality, with the movements often springing from what seems almost negligible offences as workers in Chile took to the streets after a four cent increase in metro fares.
In each case the momentary cause of the uprising was a last straw and brought on, as in Chile, by what has been seen as rewarding the rich while taking more money from those who can least afford it.
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