Please circulate this statement far and wide within your trade union
UNI Europa, the European regional organisation of the UNI global trade union federation, has described the EU fiscal stability treaty as “anti-social, anti-democratic and anti-European.” Trade unions are mobilising across Europe to stop governments from cementing in neo-liberal austerity policies for years to come.
“With this [...]

Book Review: Hilary Wainwright, Reclaim the state: experiments in popular democracy. London / New York / Calcutta: Seagull (2nd edition - 2009).
A new book by Hilary Wainwright is usually a significant event: Beyond the Fragments (with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal, 1979), Arguments for a New Left (1994) and the first edition of Reclaim the [...]

[Text of Peter Bunting's talk which was given on Sunday, 11 September 2011, at the 23rd Annual Desmond Greaves Summer School.

Peter Bunting is Assistant General Secretary of the ICTU with responsibility for Northern Ireland.]
Comrades,
Discussing an all-Ireland economy is a bit like discussing a European-wide currency. On the surface, we can talk the economist talk about [...]

Grupo Raices and Justice for Colombia will be hosting a film screening on Thursday July 28th in Liberty Hall at 6pm.
We will be showing the documentary “El Baile Rojo” (The Red Dance). The film is about the experience of the Patriotic Union, a left-wing political party which tried to challenge the dominant oligarchy in Colombia [...]

Invitation - Open to All
Debt and Austerity: From the Global South to Europe
Global Gathering: Athens, Greece 6th-8th May 2011
We would like to invite you to attend a ground-breaking global gathering in Athens, Greece at the beginning of May which will bring debt justice and social justice activists together from Europe and the Global South. As [...]

Several commentators have remarked about the sudden outbreak of class struggle in the United States. I see the brutal behavior of the state and federal governments as an indication of the failure of class struggle.
Let me explain. Back in the 1960s, when the United States was enjoying the so-called Golden Age of economic [...]

This article was originally published on #CrisisJam.
Since the foundation of the Irish state, trade unions have had to strategise with successive centre-right Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments. Despite the formal association between the Irish Labour party and some trade unions, it is Fianna Fáil that most trade union members have traditionally voted for. [...]

Crowbar
She jiggles her one year old on her knee
and smiles like Magda Goebbels,
of whom she has never heard.
If you don’t have central heating,
more fool you for having no respect
for yourself. She is not au fait
with trade unions. Her laughter,
a bag of rattling crowbars
and always at someone else’s
expense. If you didn’t get paid
no one to blame
but [...]

This is a translation of the article by Francisco Herreros originally published in Red Diario Digital in Chile. The translation, by Roberto Navarrete for alborada.net was published on the 27th of August. We’re republishing it here with Roberto’s permission.
Through sheer good luck, the tough character of the trapped miners, and the [...]