PETER MASON applauds the revival, 39 years later with the same team and cast, of Manfred Karge’s version of Brecht’s 100-year-old play, Mann Ist Mann
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ANGUS REID warmly applauds a play inspired by a real-life union campaign against zero-hours contracts
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MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds a fearless attempt to bring to the stage the 1984 toxic gas disaster in Bhopal, India
ALEX HALL applauds the account of a dogged, traumatic and punishing campaign for justice that has lasted from 1998 to the present day
NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself
JOE GILL traces the ideology and method of contemporary imperialism back to the greed, hubris and violence of the late 15th century Portuguese
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WERE every one of McDonald’s 130,000 workers to go on strike for fair pay, fair rotas and fair contracts the effect would be to transform not just the British workforce, but a global workforce.
The movement McStrike, which is supported by Unite and the BFAWU (Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union) aims to achieve exactly this goal, and the piecemeal actions that began in 2017 and continued in 2019 and 2020 are demonstrations of this potential given widespread union involvement in the industry.
The corporation, on the other hand, requires a workforce that lives in desperate circumstances to maintain low wages, high profits and zero-hours contracts.
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