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Global Europe: New challenges for trade unions in a globalising world

Europe’s aggressive external market
access agenda, combined with its push internally for market reforms in the
interest of competitiveness, poses new threats to workers in the North and South and will need a transnational trade union response.

Southern Africa: whither regional integration?

As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based development?

President Evo Morales to play football game during EU-LAC Summit

The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on Justice, Solidarity and Peace

In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began today in Lima, Peru.

Workers of the World, Forgive Me!

Experiences of a British Communist who worked in Czechoslovakia for the World Federation of Trade Unions, through the Prague Spring and Soviet Winter of 1968

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The Italian left should appeal to the urban middle class

Italy is a right-wing country, where the Vatican retains a strong influence and a majority of the population belong to the urban middle class. The left needs a new appeal to these sectors if it is to challenge Berlusconi, argues Paul Ginsborg.

Last night (29 February) I was at Montespertoli, a small town 30 minutes from Florence, for an election campaign launch. There were six men on the platform aged between forty and sixty-five.

Walter Veltroni: projecting Italy as the 'hub' of neoliberal Europe

Walter Veltroni is the main centre-left challenger to Berlusconi in Italy’s general election.

We must avoid being absorbed by the State

Paolo Cacciari, a former Rifondazione MP, argues that the left should avoid being ‘absorbed’ by state institutions, and explains how citizens’ associations can work to bring about a new left culture

How is La Sinistra – L’Arcobaleno organised in the Veneto region and how does its decision-making process work?

On 24 and 25 February, 250 stalls were set up throughout the region to collect support for the Veneto Association of La Sinistra – L’Arcobaleno.

A new coalition may be the best hope for a weak left

With the centre-left taking a rightward turn, and a fractious left increasingly losing its social base, the prospects for the Italian election look bleak, argues Luciana Castellina

The experience of the Prodi government was not a good one. This is perhaps the only thing we can all agree on. We tend to agree less on the reason for his failure, but this was surely determined by the moderate approach of his main party (Democratici di Sinistra, DS), which has steadily slipped towards the right wing.

Wrong man, wrong Europe

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Referendums killed off the EU Constitution, a ‘blackmail’ that Europe’s elites will now avoid by forcing through the Lisbon Treaty without debate, writes Susan George. And Tony Blair is just the man some of them want to lead the way in this new Europe.

Dancing at Versailles to the EU Treaty

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BBC Euroblog
Quotes Susan George

You could hardly choose a more dignified, grand place for an important political event.

I suppose France’s politicians could hardly have chosen a more appropriate one either to ignore the hoi polloi protesting outside.

The French politicians from both houses were meeting to change the constitution so they could go ahead with the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon.

By the weekend, the Senate, the National Assembly and the President himself will all have wielded the rubber stamp.

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