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Review: Strike – An Uncivil War directed by Daniel Gordon
Reviewed by Thomas Carmichael On the morning of 18 June 1984, a scorching summer’s day, 5,000 striking miners…
Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs: Take social media companies out of private hands
By Dan O’Rourke With the arrival of the billionaire charlatan Elon Musk as new CEO of Twitter, the…
Turkey: Solidarity with workers strikes & protests
By Dan O’Rourke Echoing ‘Striketober’ in the US, and perhaps foreshadowing a global trend, the rising cost of…
Starbucks workers have a golden opportunity
This article by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant was originally published with Jacobin. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New…
May Day 2021: Organise to fight for global socialism!
International Socialist Alternative would like to extend May Day greetings to all socialists, trade unionists and fighters against…
North: The way forward for hospitality workers
By Neil Moore, Regional Hospitality Organiser, Unite (personal capacity) January 2020 was a simpler time. Workers in the…
Covid-19: State must act to support workers in the arts
By Martina Stafford The precarious conditions of work for artists and performers has been acutely exposed by the…
Starbucks & Nespresso’s child labour secret exposed
A boy of ten or twelve carries a sack of coffee beans bigger than his torso up a steep hill. He stops to rub his back, grimacing in pain, then picks up the sack again and carries on. This is the true face of Starbucks and Nespresso, behind the mask of “ethical” corporate branding: children working for 40 hours a week, for about £5 per day.
Union-busting at Tesco
By Robert Cosgrave Tesco, one of the largest private sector employers in Ireland, is continuing their campaign to…
A crucial battle: NASRA workers must not stand alone
By Katia Hancke On 19 July, ambulance workers across the country organised in Nasra, a branch of the…
