The outcome of the elections will dictate whether the EU will make progress towards greater social equality and cohesion, or start to break up under the weight of national self-interests and [...]Read the full article
Menstruation clearly makes for a substantial part of life, so why is it still taboo in discussions of work environment and work-life balance?Read the full article
Who can justify denying women the right to work together for safety and to organise in a union?Read the full article
There is a crisis of multilateralism, rooted in decades of rising inequality and the favouring of profits over people. If changes are not made, the crisis of multilateralism will worsen and the ground on which the Bank stands will [...]Read the full article
The decline in the labour share in the economy, linked to the shrinking of the state, globalisation, financialisation, technological change, corporate concentration and the fall in workers’ bargaining power, has major socioeconomic and political [...]Read the full article
Aside from a few nuances and the uncertainties regarding the formation of a new government, the one overall conclusion we can draw from these elections is that we can expect to see more of the same, in other words, more fait accompli tactics [...]Read the full article
The social and solidarity economy is a phenomenon that is gaining traction throughout the EU and the rest of the world. Although the 2008 global crisis has played a part in its progress, its origins date back to the mid-19th [...]Read the full article
Orthodox economic models have failed us all, but women across Africa are resisting them and coming up with visionary alternatives.Read the full article
Plastic pollution not only threatens the job security of fishermen all around the world, it also endangers the food security and food safety of the whole planet.Read the full article
All the components of a global crisis are present in Venezuela: the international community is involved or feels it has to take sides, and some observers are speaking of a return to the Cold War. To what extent is the current situation driven by [...]Read the full article
Unless the government quickly and sincerely revives the social contract, labour unrest is likely to be a recurring feature of the months ahead.Read the full article
Taking Syria as a point of reference, Russia, Iran, the USA, Israel, Turkey – all the players, regional and global – are moving their pieces on the Middle East chessboard. But does this bode well for the [...]Read the full article
