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Court declares beer "essential service"
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Never expected to find myself torn between my solidarity for the working class and my love of beer. A court in Lithuania has declared beer an "essential service," on par with drinking water and the internet, The Telegraph reported. Brewing group Carlsberg applied for the reclassification to forestall industrial action by workers at its Lithuanian brewery, Svyturys-Utenos Alus. The staff had decided to stage a walk-out for better pay and conditions, but the court declared the stoppage illegal. Jennie Formby, national officer at Britain's UNITE, called the situation ridiculous. "Of course many people think beer is great but it does not save lives," she told The Daily Mirror.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9122762/Carlsberg-reclassifies-itself-as-an-essential-service-to-prevent-Lithuanian-strike-action.html

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Iran: Tudeh Activists Re-Emerging?
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An Iranian former non-Marxist revolutionary activist asserted that Iran's communist Tudeh Party is reorganizing among factory and government workers, and intellectuals. He claimed that many former Tudeh sympathizers hold positions in the bureaucracy and elsewhere, and opined that many still privately support the movement. He mentioned one organizer who has re-emerged behind the scenes of recent bus worker and other labor strikes.

http://wikileaks.fi/cable/2010/02/10BAKU98.html
Filed under: Communist Iran Labour Revolution Strike Tudeh
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