Trade unions and global restructuring

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...

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

In her recent book How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project (Brill, 2018), Eli...

In June 2010, the UN declared safe access to ‘clean drinking water and sanitation’ a human right. For many this highlighted the importanc...

Drawing on his article ' The Labour governments 1974–1979: social democracy abandoned? ’, recently published in the academic journal ...

The socioeconomic landscape of Latin America by the end of the 20 th century epitomised perfectly the relenting and damaging effects tha...

At a launch of his new book Out of the Wreckage , jointly organised by the Five Leaves Bookshop and the Centre for the Study of Social a...

Photo by Wolf Gang Brexit demonstrated clearly what many had perceived to be impossible: European integration is reversible. The potent...

Neoliberalism has faced intense scrutiny over the years from Trade Unionists and Marxists alike for its exploitation of workers and insiste...

Multilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), praised as engines of development by their supporters, have experienced a revival recently in ...

The British public is gripped by the campaigns around the EU referendum and the question of whether to stay in the EU or leave European i...

The electoral victory of Mauricio Macri in the recent Presidential elections in Argentina (22 November 2015) signifies a dramatic change ...

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

We are living in truly wonderful times. Finally, we can choose freely our personal lifestyles without having to fear being excluded from ge...