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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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  • Book review
  • “Brothers of Italy” and the Past to Come

  • By Franco Ferrari | 25 Apr 23
  • "Mussolini's Grandchildren by David Broder, recently published by Pluto Press in London, looks at Italy's self-proclaimed "post-fascist" movements, which have their roots in historical fascism but claim to have "overcome" it. Read a full review by Franco Ferrari.
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  • Albania's New Left
  • Lëvizja BASHKË - Movement TOGETHER Towards Social Change

  • By Redi Muçi | 20 Apr 23
  • The new left-wing party Movement Together is running in the local elections in Tirana on 14 May. Founded in December 2022 by activists from Organizata Politike, the party aims to build a new Albanian left that fights for social justice together with trade unions. Redi Muçi on the formation of the new party and the hurdles to its legal recognition.
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  • Economics Working Group Blog Series - Part 1
  • Financial Crises as Wars

  • By Roland Kulke , Luca Lombardi | 20 Apr 23
  • transform! europe has launched a new Economic Working Group (EWG) in 2023 to respond to the current crises caused by late capitalism. This first article of the EWG blog series looks at some aspects of the financial crises that punctuate the history of modern capitalism.
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  • The Last Winter of Gas in Europe

  • 07 Apr 23
  • We should not stand idly by as governments across the political spectrum repeatedly choose the path of collapse and ongoing social and economic crises to save the fossil fuel industry.
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