Pensions fight: plan now for the New Year
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The government has dramatically raised the stakes in its class war assault against public sector trade unions.
Solidarity 228, 15 December 2011
Having chemo? Get to work says the government
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By Jo Maxwell
In November, Macmillan Cancer Support launched a petition against a government proposal to axe benefits for chemotherapy patients who cannot prove they are unfit to work.
London Overground Olympics win
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Workers on the London Overground, connected to the Tube network but operated separately, have secured a 25% pay increase for shifts worked during the Olympic and Paralympic games in summer 2012.
Unilever strike over pensions
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Unilever workers struck for a day on Friday 9 December as part of their battle to defend their pensions.
Aspire: “Bosses are charming, polite, and utterly ruthless”
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Michael Given is a support worker for homeless people in Glasgow.
Should faith keep its fortresses?
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By Molly Thomas
While I am an atheist, I still respect people with faith (or superstition, as it is sometimes called). But should we respect faith itself?
Hugo: intricate and visually sumptuous
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By Molly Thomas
At first glance, Hugo seems to be about little more than a lonely young boy; but as the film progresses, it becomes clear that Martin Scorsese’s ambitions lie much further: the story of the birth of film itself.
US Republican bigotry
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In the USA, three Republican presidential candidates have signed up to an explicitly anti-gay pledge to defend marriage.
Academies to teach “marriage is best”
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Dozens of academy schools have signed up to teach the ‘importance of marriage’ as part of their deal to get government funding.
The meaning of the mass strike
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By Ed Maltby
Discussion is growing in the British labour movement about shifting the public sector pensions battle from a string of “demonstration strikes”, with long gaps in between, to a more active and self-controlling battle. Elsewhere in Europe, working-class resistance is already developing beyond the stage of occasional set-piece one-day strikes.