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Only the pigs remain - UK class struggle report The UK has been hard hit by the Covid crisis, both in economic and in human terms. When we started writing this article in January, the numbers of people who died with Covid passed 100,000. In 2020 the UK economy experienced a slump of nearly 10%, a 300 year record. The reasons for the severity of the crisis are pretty obvious: decades of austerity and outsourcing of public services, which leaves departments that are supposed to track and trace Covid cases with outdated Windows Excel programs, resulting in thousands of results getting lost; a si...

WORKERS at the sharp end of the class struggle in Britain shared their experiences with an online audience on Saturday night as the first-ever edition of Comrades aired. Hosted by Strike Map co-founder Henry Fowler, the show included teachers Venda Premkumar and Chris Denson explaining how the National Education Union has organised to defend its members’ safety through the pandemic. Front-line workers Naomi and Bella, struggling for a living wage and recognition of their union, United Voices of the World, at the Sage care home in north London featured in the round-up’s first “strike of ...

Thousands of temporary workers staged a mass protest outside the Pegatron factory in Shanghai on 19 December after managers at the Taiwan-owned electronics company ordered them to relocate to another facility in Kunshan. [1] Workers who refused to relocate because of family commitments in Shanghai would be dismissed and forfeit their bonuses, which could amount to more than 10,000 yuan, a substantial proportion of their overall remuneration. Police were called to the scene and scuffles broke out before managers agreed to revise the relocation policy and let workers keep their promised benefi...