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New year, old struggles: the strike for the collective agreement in the logistics sector

That Italy has sunk in a deep economic and political crisis since the spreading of the global recession is by no means a new story. Nor are the effects of the profound reforms of the labor market that have been pushed forward to cut the cost of labor and re-boost economic growth: the precariazation of the labor force through a [...]

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on 13/01/2016 at 19:29 /
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The Global Race to the Bottom

The acute hardship European workers are facing is part of an international process of impoverishment. by Lucia Pradella, Jacobin A construction worker in Catalonia, Spain. Sergi Bernal / Flickr Unemployment has reached unprecedented heights in Western Europe, wages are declining, and attacks on organized labor are intensifying. Nearly a quarter of Western Europe’s population, about 92 million people, was at risk [...]

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on 26/11/2015 at 19:54 /
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Racism: a weapon of exploiters

” it’s not the race that separates us but social class, your enemy is not the immigrant but the capital ” Italian version here Racism, specifically intended as the ideology that assumes the existence of “superior” and “inferior” races, is now like an old tool limited to small circles of neo-Nazi fanatics. However, the emerging throughout Europe of right-wing extremist [...]

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on 17/09/2015 at 18:31 /

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