And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Humans like to help one […]
Yesterday, members of the Sheffield branch of the Socialist Party — who have been supporting the Sova recycling workers fight against cuts in jobs, hours and pay — organised a protest picket against the haulage company that has been hired to break the Sova workers outstanding and indefinite all-out strike. This action was undertaken in solidarity with the striking GMB members who had been advised that it is illegal to secondary picket under the existing anti-trade union laws.
Michael Barker reports on tax avoidance by the rich, including 2 Sisters Food Group boss Baljinder Boparan, the ongoing dispute at the 2 Sisters owned RF Brookes factory in Leicester, and the lessons to be learned from the MMP Bootle workers.
Under capitalism, all that matters is profit… ever-increasing profits; with human welfare always relegated to the sidelines. Small businesses grow or die in this uncertain and highly competitive landscape, and those rare family businesses that manage to succeed in this hostile climate are considered prime targets for acquisition by profit-hungry corporations. RF Brookes factory in South Wigston, Leicester, is a case in point. Opening their first family-managed pie factory in 1957 in Warwickshire, RF Brookes soon upgraded to a premises in Leicester, and in the process became known as the best pie manufacturer in the Midlands.
Today five hundred workers at a food processing factory in Leicester took their third day of concerted strike action to oppose the unjust policies imposed upon them by their profit hungry management. Attacks on the workers based at RF Brookes factory, in South Wigston, unfortunately typify capitalist attempts to squeeze every last drop of profit […]
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