“The labour market is not ready to receive the workers who return. The economy is in tatters and many industries are not running properly. We need time to rebuild it and to absorb these new workers.”

“It is clear that European lawmaking has been captured by corporations with a history of human rights violations and environmental destruction.”

As Germany prepares to vote on 23 February, the far-right AfD party is causing alarm. Polls place them in second position, behind only the centre-right CDU and ahead of the centre-left SPD. In response, trade unions are mobilising in both the streets and the works councils.

Centred on Indian domination, Narendra Modi’s authoritarian diplomatic strategy has failed to win over the countries in the region, which are expressing more democratic aspirations, spurred by a wave of popular uprisings, and are using Sino-Indian rivalry to their advantage.

Civil servants in the autonomous Kurdistan Region have not been paid since November 2024. Fuelling the crisis are political battles between the federal government in Baghdad and the regional government, as well as between Kurdish political parties.

Contrary to the stereotypes often perpetuated by Hollywood and the media, only 4.64 per cent of Latin Americans have emigrated over the past 25 years. The vast majority of the region’s youth work, study, struggle and create in the communities where they are from.

The devastating conflict in Tigray may have officially ended in November 2022, but the northernmost Ethiopian region is struggling to recover and tens of thousands of working-age men and women are stuck in limbo, unable to help rebuild their home region.

“New analysis from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reveals that by treating labour policy as a purely technocratic issue, stripped of social and political context, B-Ready perpetuates its predecessor’s probusiness, deregulatory agenda, fostering a race to the [...]

“We need to remove the military to end all the atrocities, exploitation, and slavery. There will be no negotiation until we win,” says Khaing Zar Aung, president of the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar and recipient of the 2024 Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights.

“The election of Paetongtarn Shinawatra, despite a degree of generational change, is in keeping with a political system dominated by powerful political dynasties and the military-royalist establishment.”