Trade unions and global restructuring

In this guest post, written on request, Jan Willem Goudriaan , Deputy General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unio...

Privatisation is a truly fantastic thing. Privatising public services would result in four benign consequences, we are told: (1) the produc...

Victory in the 2011 referendum against water privatisation had been emphatic. More than 57 per cent of the Italian electorate cas...

Against the background of the global and Eurozone financial crises as well as austerity sweeping across Europe, the pressure on privatisi...

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

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

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