Thursday, 24 April 2014

Marxism, Social Movements and resistance to capitalist exploitation!

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In the Theses On Feuerbach , Marx famously wrote that ‘the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to c...
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Sunday, 13 April 2014

Trade Union Solidarity and Free Trade: The case of COSATU.

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Do trade unions matter in the Twenty-First Century? How are they responding to ongoing processes of neoliberal restructuring? In particul...
Thursday, 3 April 2014

Another trade policy is possible! The proposals by the Alternative Trade Mandate.

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Trade policy has been one of the great battle grounds for progressive movements around the globe. Ricardo’s theory of comparative advan...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

Renzi’s Reforms, Italian Trade Unions and the EU!

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In a previous post in December 2013 (see The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions ) Darragh Golden discussed t...
Thursday, 20 March 2014

Unions across borders

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The global wage earning class today may be estimated to 2.5 to 3 billion. Among these 5 to 7.6 per cent are unionized. In a core capitali...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT!

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The untimely death of Bob Crow, General Secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) is sad news for the British labour mov...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

How to explain the Swiss vote against the Free Movement of Workers

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On 8 February 2009, almost 60 percent of Swiss voters supported the extension of the bilateral EU-Switzerland agreement on the free movem...