Trade unions and global restructuring

Zero-hour contracts are often toted as a win-win, one where the worker and employer can both benefit and “decide” how much they work. In rea...

In his major, two-volume publication Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector (Bristol University Pres...

Against a back-ground of global economic crisis and heightened geo-political confron-tations, the inter-national labour movement has remaine...

' EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal ’ declared the Stop EU – Mercosur campaign all...

In this guest post Sarrah Kassem outlines key arguments of her recent book Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Powe...

Just over four years ago, Adam D. Morton and I published our book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (CUP, 2018). In this book, ...

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...

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experi...

In their powerful book The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism (Verso, 2021), Ulrich Brand and M...

Yet again, staff at universities across the UK are out on strike to defend their working conditions and pensions. Unsurprisingly, university...

There is widespread pessimism about workers’ potential to take successful industrial action in the UK today. Structural transformation from ...

In the autumn of 2016, a large alliance of Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous supporters blocked the path of yet another oil pipeli...

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

The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion ...

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

Photo by Robyn Jay During the Spring semester 2019, students on the module Globalisation and Resistance in the School of Politics and ...

In his latest book Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle against Work, Money and Financialization (Chico/CA: AK Press, 2017), Harry Cl...

In the ongoing struggles over public water in Italy, it is the municipality of Naples and its water company Acqua Bene Comune (ABC), whic...

On 12 and 13 June 2011, the Italian Water Movements Forum secured a clear victory in the referendum against water privatisation. More th...