Across the battlefield, debt holders are negotiating from a significant position of power. They already have a lot of money and a government willing to bail them out, so they can afford to be patient. They influence and write local, state, and federal legislation around debt. They have nothing to gain from giving in to debtors' demands for *blanket* forgiveness: if they forgive debt, they lose money, but if they do not forgive debt, they lose less money. The play is clearly a political statement about the life and times of Italy in the 1970s. Dario Fo shows that the struggle to make ends meet, coupled with the loss of jobs, is the cost that working class carry in the fight against inflation. It is arguably also a feminist comedy, as it is written to show the viewpoint of the housewife, struggling to afford the ever rising prices in the shops. Its themes of unemployment, class division, and women’s role in society then continued to strike a relevant note through 1980s Britain. Continuing decades have also seen its relevance to their own problems, in various countries, with crooked politicians and bankers’ bonuses. Because we’re in the era of fascism, the working class is going to have to find ways to undermine the economy of the ruling class which keeps most people in debt and struggling. Protests in the streets are important, but we need to also learn and use the power of economic boycotts, debtors’ unions, job strikes, and other forms of resistance to force the government to make changes. As described below, the combination of mortgage data with borrower information on income, employment status, balance sheets, and consumption enable us to measure ability to pay, and analyze its importance in the default decision in considerably more detail than in the previous literature. More than 21,000 people “from all walks of life” are “organising” in their local communities, it added, with activists in cities including Bristol, Brighton, Manchester and London using the messaging app Telegram to coordinate leafleting campaigns to raise awareness – more than 1.6 million of which have been distributed so far.

Martindale is angry because her tutoring business has suffered in the cost-of-living crisis, and she’s struggling to pay for her daughter’s urgently needed medical treatment and her son’s college tuition. The original Italian, unlike the English version, makes direct criticisms of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). For example, not included in the English version is when Antonia tells Giovanni: [11]

Actions to take

The deadline for you to start the employment tribunal process is 3 months minus a day from when you should have been paid the money. Donna Goddard, Head of Debt Recovery at Boyes Turner has a look at the distinctions between Can’t Pay and Won’t Pay. Can’t Pay You should think about whether you’d be better off leaving your job. If you resign, you can still take legal action against your employer. If the reason they haven’t paid is that they’re having money problems, it might be difficult to get any pay they owe you. Marcos, Subcomandante (2003). Juana Ponce de Leon (ed.). Our Word is Our Weapon. Seven Stories Press. p.329. ISBN 1-58322-472-6.

some people have no sense of the theatre, why do people have to be so critical. They play might not be that great but you could at least have the common decency to enjoy it.

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Second, the book doesn't have much to offer in terms of absolute, concrete success stories. Greece and Bolivia fought against the debt crunch, but Greece capitulated (for reasons the book understands, to protect its elderly population from death), and Bolivia has struggled to get itself out from under the thumb of the United States. Now, the situation would be different in the United States, because if the debtors won, there wouldn't be a second United States around to overthrow their government. But it would still be helpful to see a political plan built around gaming your opponents' likely actions.

I appreciate the many examples Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay shares, and the depth of the information it provides. However, I do wish there was more attention on the solutions to these problems. The final chapter does cite what the movement has accomplished so far, and offers some tactics we can use to make further progress. But I felt it could have been more fully explained. As it stands, I feel that I’d still need more information about how I can take action. Debt strikes sounds good in theory, but it’s not something I’d feel secure in doing on my own or even as part of a small group. How can we finally get organized on a greater scale? How can we protect ourselves financially? I still have questions, but this book gets the ball rolling and is a great first step. daVinci Nichols, Nina (2005). Maurice Charney (ed.). "Italian Comedy". Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group: 420. ISBN 0-313-32715-7. Healey, Robin (1998). Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929–1997. University of Toronto Press. p.299. ISBN 0-8020-0800-3.

How to prevent late payments

If the problem happened recently, it’s usually best to carry on working while you try and get your employer to pay you. If you refuse to work, you might be breaking your contract, so your employer might dismiss you. If your employer hasn’t paid you for a while The UK's first performance of Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! was in London in 1978. It was a success and was revived for London’s West End in 1981 where it ran for 2 years. “Time Out” reported, “Fo’s ingenious farce careers through an escalating progression of improbabilities and confusions until it concludes with a thorough and well-timed solution." (I saw that performance towards the end of its run.) These findings imply that health disabilities result in significant declines in income. In addition, LP argues that health disabilities are exogenous shifters of employment probabilities and wages (and thus income), citing several studies to support such a position. 36 Not since the U.K. poll tax revolt of 1990 helped sweep then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from power have the Brits been in such a rebellious mood.More than 100,000 of them have reportedly pledged online to refuse to pay their natural gas and electricity bills this fall unless the government takes further action to defray the escalating cost of household energy. Your employer can deduct money they’ve overpaid you in previous weeks or months. If you don’t agree that they overpaid you, explain why and ask them to pay you what they owe you.