Trade unions and global restructuring

Trade unions have the task to organise collectively and establish relations of solidarity amongst working people. And yet, they have often f...

In my new book Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (Zed Books), I am investigating the underlying dynamics of the success...

Photo by Yanni Koutsomitis Following the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union adopted a new economic governance regime. As  Jamie ...

The pictures could have been hardly more dramatic on 2 March 2020. Syrian refugees in a fragile boat in open sea are desperate for help and...

Photo by UggBoy - Ugg Girl There is general agreement that the Eurozone crisis has had a devastating impact on countries in Europe’s pe...

“Ryanair must change”. This simple message, emblazoned on T-shirts in the familiar shades of yellow and blue, stood out loud and clear in a...

On Wednesday, 8 March a high profile panel discussed the future of Britain’s relationship with the EU at Nottingham University . Nottingham...

On Thursday, 23 June, a  referendum   will be held to decide whether Britain   should leave or remain in the   European Union . When Jacque...

Jan Willem Goudriaan , General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), has written regular updates (see 1 ...

The creation of the new European governance regime requires an explanation. In contrast to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)...

The recently published collection of essays by Hugo Radice on Global Capitalism (Routledge, 2015) represents impressive global political...

Image by Wikimedia Commons After five years of imposed austerity, the Greek economy is on its knees. GDP has declined by 25 per cent, u...

The conflict over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a struggle between different blocs, argued John Hilary, Ex...

European labour movements are under severe pressure as a result of the global financial and Eurozone crises, which have been used by capi...

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, was defeated in Brussels over his attempt to block the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as t...

Trade policy has been one of the great battle grounds for progressive movements around the globe. Ricardo’s theory of comparative advan...

In a previous post in December 2013 (see The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions ) Darragh Golden discussed t...

Many commentators make Greece and other peripheral EU members responsible for the sovereign debt crisis. People in these countries would ...

Roland Erne is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, where he is part of the project on Globalization an...

As part of the austerity programmes across Europe in response to the economic crisis, European Union (EU) institutions have increasingly be...