Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CGT (España), Communication Workers of America (CWA), CSC-CNE, STCC, SUD PTT, SYNTIC (Cameroun), UGTT, UMT
For several weeks now, millions of workers across the world have still been working in their call-centres, taking, or even making calls to sell phone subscriptions or insurance policies... Subcontractors working for customer service of trading multinationals (Teleperformance, Concentrix, Atento, (…)
, by MAKHITRA Ravi
Michael Oliver (3 February 1945 to 2 March 2019) was a British academic, author, and disability rights activist. He was Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich. His research focused on the social model of disability, and his activism centred on overcoming the (…)
, by BIRKE Peter, DUTTA Madhumita, NOWAK Jörg
Twenty-first century working class struggles have seen alliances of working people in response to issues such as climate change, immigrant rights, informalisation of work and the political-economic crisis across the globe. A glance at protests over the recent years shows the increasing relevance (…)
, by MEEK James
A housing shortage that has been building up for the past thirty years is reaching the point of crisis. The party in power, whose late 20th-century figurehead, Margaret Thatcher, did so much to create the problem, is responding by separating off the economically least powerful and squeezing them (…)
, by MESTRUM Francine
Contribution to the plenary debate on social protection and essential services, Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF), Vientiane, 16-19 October 2012.
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Who could have imagined ten years ago the paradoxical situation we are living in today! In 2002 the first signs (…)
, by EBRO Tina
Seize the Moment
In the last few years, a string of interlocking crises has brought the logic and legitimacy of capitalism in question. But progressive forces have not used the opportunity to repudiate it, much less dare challenge it with bold, workable alternatives. This paper is thus a call (…)
, by IAI
Inhabitants of the world united for the right to the city!This was determined in the Call, approved by the plenary Urban Social Forum of Rio , summarizing the deep sense which invigorated the participation of thousands of people, social leaders, inhabitants organizations, tenants, homeless, (…)
, by EBRO Tina
Presented last April 6, 2010 at the “SEA Conference on Social Protection and the Universalization of Socio-Economic Security” organized by GCAP-Philippines and Social Watch-Philippines, supported by the International Institute of Social Studies in Netherlands and Oxfam-Novib.
When the (…)
, by Urban Social Forum
All cities and rural areas are experiencing a structural crisis, resulting from the implementation of urban policies in favour of global capitalism, which is expressed through a variety of problems: the loss of the social function of cities; the commercial exploitation of economic, social, (…)
, by Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines — ASEAN must put people’s human rights, particularly to social protection for the poor who are most affected, at the center stage of its response to both the global financial meltdown and the series of disasters that have visited some member-nations of the regional bloc. (…)
, by BELLO Walden, CHENOY Anuradha M, CHENOY Kamal Mitra, LIM Paul Joseph, ROUSSET Pierre, SCHMIDT Johannes Dragsbaek
Dear Friends,
Warm greetings!
We seek to start a campaign pursuing an agenda for transformative and institutional social protection as a democratic and human rights response to the current crisis.
Based on international human rights laws and instruments, to which most of our governments (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
WHEREAS the current financial and economic crisis is the worst that could be experienced in systemic boom-and-bust cycles since the Great Depression of the 1930s, occurring alongside crises in food security, energy, and climate change, causing 230 million to lose their jobs by the end of the (…)
Dear Pierre, Warmest wishes! As you know, we are embarking on a regional campaign on social protection as a democratic and human rights response to the crisis. This campaign began to take shape after the caucus of representatives of urban poor movements at AEPF-7 in Beijing. We believe that (…)
, by HATTINGH Shawn
Introduction
In most countries, political leaders and bosses are using the global economic crisis to once again unleash an attack on workers and the poor. As part of this, we have seen corporations around the world trying to make workers pay for the crisis by retrenching tens of millions of (…)
, by Movements
The current financial crisis demonstrates the limits of capitalism, the hazards of malign neglect in its insufficient regulation and the rush to posses and consume more.
The financial crisis, with its manifold consequences, is just one of many threats to life in cities and human settlements (…)
, by New Unionism, STANDING Guy
Professor Guy Standing is a former senior staff member of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). He worked for the ILO from 1975 to 2006. During that time he was director of labour market policies, coordinated technical work in eastern Europe following the collapse of the Berlin wall and (…)
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