This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
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From higher education to ‘fire-and-rehire’ tactics, we must oppose the cowardly assault on workers’ rights
Mass job losses during the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes will carry an immense human cost, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
GIVEN the immense suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic, it is absolutely appalling that some companies see the crisis as an opportunity to be exploited for financial gain.
Across the country, unscrupulous bosses from Heathrow airport to Go North West in Manchester, and the Jacobs Douwe Egberts site in Banbury and British Gas nationwide, have used the pandemic as a smokescreen to implement disgraceful “fire-and-rehire” tactics in which salaries and terms and conditions are torn to shreds.
In Leicester, we experienced this with SPS Technologies, an aircraft parts manufacturer, in my constituency of Leicester East.
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