Friday, 27 December 2013

Crucible of Resistance: Class struggle over ways out of the crisis.

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Many commentators make Greece and other peripheral EU members responsible for the sovereign debt crisis. People in these countries would ...
Monday, 16 December 2013

The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions

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Matteo Renzi, mayor of Florence, was recently elected leader of the Italian Partito Democratico (Democratic Party). All Italians could vot...
Friday, 13 December 2013

LO Sweden: Can an Old Model be Renewed?

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LO Sweden is starting a high-level commission on a “new Swedish model”. Long ago, Sweden was known for what was called the Rehn-Meidner mod...
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Monday, 9 December 2013

Confronting Neo-liberal Capitalism: SIGTUR’s tenth Congress in Perth/Australia, 2 to 6 December 2013.

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Last week, I attended the tenth Congress of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR) in Perth/Australia, 2...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Trade unions as a battleground for the minds of workers: Trotsky and the role of the vanguard party.

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The Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci was not very optimistic about the potential transformative, revolutionary role of trade unions. ‘Trad...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

The white terror – Déjà vu about fascism and the reactionary turn of our time.

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In the summer of 1980, Italian fascists blew up the central station in “red” Bologna. 85 people were killed, more than 200 were wounded. ...
Saturday, 16 November 2013

Si, se puede - New forms of resistance in Spain: the case of the anti-eviction platform PAH!

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During the last two days, I have attended the conference Keys to the Crisis in Europe , organized by ATTAC Norway in Oslo. In this blog pos...