Trade unions and global restructuring

Capital has identified water as an important opportunity for profitable investment. Whether it is the privatisation of public water infrastr...

Ultimately, it comes down to political will, when confronting the climate crisis. Instead of indulging in Elon Musk’s fantasies about life o...

On 3 September, about 100 local activists met in Nottingham/UK to discuss how to best organize in view of increasing injustices and global c...

From 17 to 21 August 2022, over 600 activists from more than 20 countries in Europe and beyond gathered in Mönchengladbach/Germany for the 2...

Britain’s private water companies are yet again in the news. After reports on high and regular discharge of raw sewage into the country’s ri...

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

The global pandemic of the coronavirus has demonstrated the dangers of continuing economic growth. Relentless human encroachment on nature h...

In my new book Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (Zed Books/Bloomsbury, 2021), I analyse a number of struggles against ...

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic disrupting global value chains and geo-political rivalry especially between China and the US, the globa...

In her recent volume Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press, 2019), Silvia Federici fruitfully brin...

Verity Burgmann has produced an excellent, broad coverage of different instances of resistance by labour movements from around the worl...

Photo by gaby_bra From 3 to 10 December, I visited Sao Paulo/Brazil for several lectures and also had the opportunity to speak to repre...

While Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to turn the current general elections into a contest over Brexit, it is Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour...

In his recently published monograph Labour Internationalism in the Global South: The SIGTUR Initiative (Cambridge University Press, 2...

Forty years after Mrs Thatcher’s first election victory, the term ‘neoliberal’ remains the basic shorthand term for the new form of capit...

In his recent book Why Social Movements Matter: an introduction (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018) Laurence Cox provides a f...

The question of who controls water and for what purpose makes water inherently political. Whether it’s water sources, water production su...

From the early 1980s onwards workers’ rights across Europe have been greatly cut back, especially with regards to collective bargaining ...

How does the project of European integration relate to globalization? Is a revival of the project of social Europe still possible and wha...

Calling every European citizen! EUROPE MUST BE ON ALERT AND CALLED UP! Let’s recover over future! For a permanent collaboration and a con...