Hundreds of dockworkers at Greece’s largest port are demanding better working conditions and a new collective agreement. Ever since the Chinese state-owned enterprise COSCO became the majority owner of the Piraeus Port Authority, workers there have had fewer rights and [...]Read the full article
Jan Willem Goudriaan :Organising care on a not-for-profit basis is good for society, good for taxpayers, good for people who need care and support, and good for care workers.Read the full article
Nicolás Sartorius:This health, economic and social pandemic has shown the need for strengthened welfare states, and the political risks associated with weakening them, as well the need to build welfare states where they do not exist in order to avoid permanent conflicts and the crisis of dislocated [...]Read the full article
Robert Maisey:This cosy relationship between private companies and government, leveraging a national crisis to facilitate an accelerated transfer of wealth from public to private, can only be given one name: corruption.Read the full article
Tuscany Bell:Despite being so fundamental to society, waste sector workers are rarely thought about, or accounted for in policies. This is made disturbingly apparent when looking closer at the conditions they work in and the hardships they [...]Read the full article
Lara Merling:The support of the World Bank and IMF for action on debt burdens and immediate crisis response measures is welcome, but does not indicate a significant shift away from the austerity, privatisation and deregulation that has increased inequality and failed to produce sustained [...]Read the full article
Mayra Castro :In his first four months in government, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has adopted measures that have thrown Brazil’s fulfilment of the Agenda 2030 goals off track.Read the full article
As the final tremors of war subside, the time has come to rebuild a country in ruins, to allow for the return of its population. But what kind of reconstruction model has been chosen?Read the full article
From California to Colorado to West Virginia, a vast strike movement is spreading across the United States in protest at the proliferation of charter schools – institutions mainly funded by taxpayers but managed by private organisations.Read the full article
In 1990, Transnistria, a narrow strip of land located between the Dniester River and Ukraine, declared its independence from Moldova. No member states of the United Nations have recognised the self-proclaimed republic, leaving its half a million citizens to political [...]Read the full article
Over the years, Zanu-PF has repeatedly undermined any attempts by trade unions to advocate for workers, doing everything from under-resourcing the Ministry of Labour to using state security agents to brutally suppress the work of trade [...]Read the full article
“This is a complete urban failure. It’s a mistake in every field – town planning, architecture, traffic, infrastructure, social policy. They’re building a separate town in the middle of the city.”Read the full article
In a divided country, public universities struggle to operate in the face of fire hazards, budget cuts and the threat of privatisation.Read the full article
Amongst key UK outsourcing corporations, Carillion collapsed in January 2018. Capita is in crisis. There is an escalating financial crisis in local government funding. All of which have fed public sentiment against privatisation.Read the full article
David Boys:A recent report published by Public Services International and the Transnational Institute shows that since 2000 there have been at least 235 cases of water remunicipalisation in 37 countries, affecting more than 100 million people. So what’s driving this [...]Read the full article
The AAPM’s union density is particularly impressive for a growing and significantly transnational industry. In 2011, 38.9 per cent of Argentina’s pharmaceutical market was represented by multinational companies.Read the full article
War-torn Afghanistan has rich deposits of rare earth metals and iron, copper, cobalt and gold. An internal Pentagon memo states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”Read the full article
Gold rich regions of Colombia are at the centre of a new gold rush, giving rise to violence and displacements. Whilst the miners who inherited this trade from their ancestors are declared illegal by the government, multinationals and armed mafias compete for control of the [...]Read the full article
Tens of thousands of Chileans protest at a demonstration organised by the No More AFP movement, calling for an end to the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP) and the establishment of a social security system providing decent pensions.Read the full article
Gilbert Cyasionne:Education, supposedly the means to the humanist ideal of emancipation and instruction for all, has been the subject of successive reforms imposed by the European Union, which have in reality made economic competitiveness the primary [...]Read the full article
Dockworkers and companies in Spanish ports have reached an initial agreement, on their own, enabling the suspension of strike action, despite the inflexible attitude shown by the government, which has passed a decree aimed at wiping out good working conditions in the [...]Read the full article