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Pay for artists, not exploitation
Joint national chair of the Artists Union England ZITA HOLBOURNE argues that artists are systematically neglected when it comes to paying them for their labour
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
I WILL be moving Motion 9 at TUC Congress on ending the “low pay/no pay” culture in the arts sector.
As a black, disabled woman and working artist, I live and breathe the experiences highlighted in the motion.
Art benefits every single person in society and yet it’s frequently perceived as a hobby and hardworking, talented and skilled artists are told by organisations and institutions that wish to benefit from their art that they don’t have a budget, or that they have a low budget, or they don’t have any money to pay but “can’t we do it anyway out of our love of art,” as if we can live off the air we breathe and don’t have bills to pay or mouths to feed.
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