This article appeared in Notizie Internazionali, published by FIOM-CGIL in Italy. “Questo è un giorno che non dimenticherò mai ” ha detto Jyrki Raina, il neo eletto Segretario Generale di IndustriALL Global Union—ma non era…
This article appeared in In These Times. “This is a day that I will never forget,” said Jyrki Raina, the newly-elected General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union — but one could not be sure what…
This article appeared in the Morning Star today. At the beginning of this month, the prosecution of former US Senator John Edwards for breaking campaign financing laws ended in a fiasco. The federal jury in…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. John Edwards was once the shining hope of American progressives; today, he’s a disgraced former politician. Last week, his trial in federal court ended with an…
This article appeared in In These Times. To some, trade union internationalism may seem to be a very old-fashioned notion, even quaint. One might imagine that in some of world’s leading corporate boardrooms the use…
I think two months is long enough to decide whether buying a Samsung Galaxy Note was a good idea or not. I should preface this by saying that though I’m an early adopter, I’m also…
This article appears in Solidarity this week. As PCS convenes this week in Brighton for their annual conference, delegates will be be expected to vote on a wide range of issues, including some international ones….
Last week, rank-and-file members of Unite in one workplace raised £1,000 to support 53 Indonesian workers, sacked by Nestlé. They were joined by trade unionists in Germany, the Nordic countries and elsewhere who in a…
This article appeared in Jungle World. Die Woche vor dem 1. Mai wird jedes Jahr weltweit als »Nordkorea-Friedenswoche« begangen, obwohl man das innerhalb der Arbeiterbewegung kaum bemerken würde. Gewerkschaften in ganz Europa rühmen sich ihrer…
This article appeared in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice. On 28 April, the fifth largest supermarket chain in Britain, the Co-operative Group, voted to stop trading with Israeli companies that source some of their products from…