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1. Protection against dismissal,
2. Assurances against unemployment,
3. The safety insurance and benefits to the workers.
Finally, we realise it is impossible to end exploitation or to acquire
full rights of the working class by simply changing or reforming the labour
law. In addition, the implementing of the new labour law will not change
the system of property relations or implement a new social state, i.e.
socialism.
Actually, our criticism of the new labour law is aimed at
implementing many reforms, such as; the right to strike, the right to sit in,
unemployment insurance and the full right to organize and join unions, in
a word, to strengthen the ability of the working class to struggle against
the exploiters, and the whole of capitalism.
Short cuts
by Eyal Weizman
London Review of Books
In the course of the eight-day aerial bombardment of Gaza by Israel –
using drones, F-16s and Apache helicopters – more than 1350 buildings
were hit. They included military depots, which are considered legitimate
targets under international humanitarian law. But the police stations, TV
stations, a local healthcare centre, ministries, road tunnels and a bridge
that were also targeted are legally protected as civilian infrastructure. To
justify their destruction, Israel argued that ‘they belong to a terrorist
entity.’ This is an argument that would render all public buildings and