Labour
Yearbook
- It is fanciful to presume that there are many Marxists who believe in an afterlife, so it is perhaps perverse to imagine Karl Marx sitting somewhere on a heavenly cloud, looking down at the world and contemplating the current state of the left. Nevertheless, if we suspend disbelief and give way to...
The Future of Work: Neither Utopias nor Dystopias but New Fields of Accumulation and Struggle
Focus
- It is a time of monsters. The organic crisis of the old neoliberal project has also brought forth the rise of a new radical right. But what are the reasons behind this? Many different explanations exist, most of which are valuable in certain aspects. This text aims to gain a deeper understanding of their specific relationships with one another.
Understanding the Rise of the Radical Right: Dimensions of a Generalized Culture of Insecurity
- Our study on right-wing populism and workers' unions shows that people's everyday lives (at work and in their interactions with the welfare state) provide fertile ground for right-wing populism.[1]
The Worsening Situation for Employees and Right-Wing Populism in the Workplace
Blog
- Exactly 130 years ago, the first May Day was celebrated with strikes, demonstrations, and meetings called by the Second International as the Labour Day, the day of the working classes. Ever since then it has become a day like no other for progressives and socialists. The day of struggle for the...
Mayday 1890 and 2020
- Read the analysis of the Marxist Feminist Collective.
On Social Reproduction and the Covid-19 Pandemic — Seven Theses
- Modern slavery and human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries and one of the biggest human rights crises today, United Nations and government officials said.
Fighting the World’s Largest Criminal Industry: Modern Slavery
- GUE/NGL recently presented a new study that examines the consequences of EU liberalisation directives on public services.
The Consequences of EU Liberalisation Directives on Public Services
- The 55th ITH Conference (5-7 September 2019, Linz/ Upper Austria) investigates the topic of “Working on the Land”, aiming to strengthen the links between labour history and rural history.
ITH Conference 2019: Working on the Land. Actors, Societies and Environments
- Organisers: Transform! Europe, Indonesia for Global Justice Date: 30th September 2018 City: Gent (Belgium) Overview Transform! Europe and the Asia Europe People's Forum have been working together on Commons for some time already. At the last major meeting in Barcelona in June 2018 Rachmi...
“The New Face of Globalization and New Model of Capitalism Monopoly”. Report of the Open Space
- For every industrial robot introduced into the workforce, six jobs are eliminated. – Since a few days, Amazon has started Amazon Go. The idea is simple: a shop where you go in, take whatever you want from the shelves, and the cost goes automatically to a magnetic card that you carry.
The Robot, Unemployment, and Immigrants
- On the first Friday of October the Institute of Labour Studies, Ljubljana in collaboration with Zavod Bunker, RLS Southeast Europe and transform! europe organized a conference on the topic of the relation between labour and technology in the 21st century.
Labour and Technology
- Post financial crisis, the most persistent scapegoats for many parts of society has been migrants and refugees. Used by mass media, politicians and common people alike, the problems of Europe have been condensed in the spiteful image of the ‘others’.
Strengthening Migrant Rights in Post-Brexit Britain
- After a long quarantine, “revolution” is back as a topic of historiographical debate. The upcoming anniversary of 1917 – arguably one of, if not the most momentous event of the 20th century – has further fuelled this renewed interest.
‘Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down – Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective’
- The Second Session of the Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights concluded on Friday 28 October, after five days of extensive debate.
Controlling Violations of Labour and Human Rights
- The so-called Labour Law, passed en force by the French government on 20 July, is the most serious attack against the “Code du Travail”, already undermined for the past thirty years. A short historical overview is necessary to better grasp the destructive scope of this law, promoted and enforced by a socialist government – cruel irony!
Labour market’s reform package and (fragile) re-birth of a trade unions-led social movement
- The dismantling of labour and social rights has gained in strength on the EU political agenda ever since the crisis broke out. This phenomenon, if more acute in the so-called periphery countries, is however to be witnessed everywhere in Europe.
European Labour Rights at a Crossroads
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