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  • The Gradual Abolition of the Individual’s Right to Asylum

  • By Cornelia Ernst | 22 May 23
  • The Pact on Migration and Asylum presented by the EU commission in 2020 focuses on deterrence, isolation, a toughening of the European border, and the fast-tracking of decisions at the expense of asylum seekers’ rights. New steps are now being taken by the European Parliament and the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council. Where is Europe heading?
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  • Analysis

  • How Digitalisation Is Transforming the World of Work

  • 15 May 23
  • The Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation's Madrid office, in collaboration with turba! comunicación, has published an analysis entitled "Impact of digitalisation on work" to map industrial relations and labour struggles in Europe's new digital economy.
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  • Analysis

  • Different Countries, Same Labour Struggle: Europe’s Hospitals on Strike

  • 15 May 23
  • Healthcare cuts have sparked strike movements in many countries. How have these struggles developed in Germany, Great Britain and Spain, and what is actually going on in Austria’s hospitals? Fabian Hattendorfer, Benjamin Herr and Mathias Krams (editors of the Austrian online blog mosaik) provide an overview.
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  • Report

  • What Is Really Behind Delhaize's Plan?

  • 15 May 23
  • Workers at Delhaize (one of Belgium's largest supermarket chains) are massively protesting against implementation of the franchise model which is expected to lead to layoffs, precariousness, and lower wages, as well as to endanger national unions and set a new franchising trend in the whole retail sector in motion.
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  • Analysis

  • The UK’s Strike Wave: Where Next for Workers Struggles?

  • By Craig Lewis | 11 May 23
  • 2022 saw more strikes in Britain than any year since 2011 as workers continued to fight back against an on-going cost of living crisis that will see poverty, foodbank use, and homelessness hit even wider sections of the working class. The strike wave, which began last summer led by rail and postal workers, has not come to an end.
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  • Call For Solidarity

  • Szikra Movement Denounces Orbán Clampdown

  • 27 Apr 23
  • Activists of Szikra ("Spark"), a Hungarian green-left movement, are calling for support and solidarity with their struggle against the judicial hate campaign unleashed against them by the Hungarian government and its far-right allies.
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