In the belly of the beast
German workers have been fighting for a fair contract at Amazon’s shipping facilities. The ongoing struggle has become one of the toughest labour disputes in modern German history
Who controls our food?
The purchasing and sales policies of agrifood corporations promote a form of agriculture that revolves around productivity – at the expense of the weakest links in the chain: farmers and workers
A World Court for Corporations
How the EU plans to entrench and institutionalize Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Violence against the Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
We believe this report will serve as an instrument in the search for solutions for the extremely serious problems that affect the existence and the dignity of the indigenous peoples, because that is essentially its function
Loss and Damage! – What about Climate Just Politics?
On 12 December 2015, at 7:26 pm, Laurent Fabius banged his gavel – and cheers broke out at the Le Bourget congress centre near Paris. Thousands of people embraced each other, laughed, took photos and applauded for minutes on end. After two weeks of dramatic negotiations, the plenum of the climate conference had adopted a new climate agreement and French foreign minister and President of the conference Laurent Fabius closed the historic event. By Juliane Schumacher, RSL
Platform Cooperativism
Among all the problems with 21st-century work — the ballooning of the low wage service sector, economic inequality, the crumbling of worker rights — the main problem really is that there are so few realistic alternatives.
Take the ports!
In the so-called large emerging economies of the South – in particular the BRICS countries – globalization’s imperative has been export-led growth, and these countries’ port cities have served as the platforms for this development strategy
The Global Crisis of Displacement and Evictions
The world is living through an unprecedented housing crisis. Approximately 1.6 billion people are considered to be inadequately housed, while one hundred million are homeless and another sixty million have been displaced from their homes.
Migration In Greece
This booklet has two goals. First of all, to deconstruct the numerous social myths that revolve around migration in Greece with well-founded facts, thus contributing to a well-rounded and multi-facetted understanding of the migration issue. Second, to propose, through this deconstruction, a realistic but also fair policy on migration, a true left-wing policy.
The coldest summer
The stories are based on the autobiographical narratives of refugees we met in Athens and in Berlin. They are stories we heard by chance. The protagonists of the stories are people who could have been members of our family, our friends or our neighbours. They are, beyond doubt, people who, some day, will be recognised as fellow human beings in our societies and in our spaces. Let us welcome them.
