The short answer is – everything and nothing. Let’s start with the “everything” part. Back in the twentieth century, unions were reluctant to embrace the net. The majority of union members were not yet online,…
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A version of this article is also online here. Usually at this time of year, I am asked by Workers Online to review the world geographically, continent by continent, country by country, and point out…
A trade union leader’s victory marks beginning of class politics in Israel. Workers’ Online runs my analysis of Amir Peretz’s victory.
You can read my article in full, here.
From the perspective of the international labour movement, probably the single most important event in 2004 was the re-election of that rotten, anti-union government — and I’m not referring to the Australian election either.
In a previous column, I made the case that the Internet has made campaigning much easier, cheaper, faster and more effective than ever before. All of us who are connected to the net are by…
It’s that time of year again — time to receive my annual message from Peter, asking me to do a “global year in review”. This time, I thought it might be interesting to take a…
Every magazine and newspaper in the world is going to have to rewrite their end-of- year surveys to reflect the significance of the events of September 11th — and this is just as true for…