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Palestinians fight on as talks continue in Paris
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
Fierce fighting is continuing throughout the Gaza Strip. The resistance battles in the streets of the Palestinian enclave to stave off the Israeli invaders who now are trying to starve the Palestinians of the Strip into submission. A senior Chinese official told the International Court of Justice that the Palestinians have the right to engage in armed struggle because they live under an illegal Israeli occupation. And Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has no intention of relinquishing control of the Gaza Strip after “victory” while his masters, the Americans, say progress has been made in the indirect talks with Hamas in Paris.
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Palestinians fight on as talks continue in Paris
Working for Free
by New Worker correspondent
Last week we reported on just how deeply embedded the phenomena of zero hours contracts have become in Britain. This week we look at another form of exploitation which in some respects is the opposite of zero hours contracts: Unpaid overtime. This is the subject of a new Trades Union Congress report that demonstrated that in the course of 2023 no less than 26 billion pounds-worth of free labour was gifted to Britain’s bosses by the 3,757,303 workers who carried out unpaid overtime. This tends to affect better paid and permanent workers rather than those in insecure employment. Unpaid overtime is simply not getting paid for hours worked, and is unrelated to the decline in overtime generally which is paid by agreement for unsocial extra hours. In many industries, such as retail, shift work has replaced extra hours.
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Working for Free
