Against
a back-ground of global economic crisis and heightened geo-political
confron-tations, the inter-national labour movement has remained as important as
ever for the defence of working people and wider society. And yet international organised labour
is also in crisis. In my article ‘Confronting exploitation: What labour movement for the
21st century’, published in the journal International
Union Rights, I argue that we need to go beyond a narrow focus on trade
unions as the privileged agent of workers’ interests and understand ‘class’ and
‘class struggle’ more broadly for successful resistance against capitalist
exploitation.
