Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SANKARI Michael
From 2nd to 4th May 2025, the 6th Trade Union Conference of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation took place in Berlin. With over 3,000 participants, it was the largest gathering of left-wing trade unionists in decades – an impressive sign of the attempt to organise counterpower in increasingly rough (…)
, by Denik Alarm
This year’s update of the minimum living wage increased to €1,835, and in Prague and Brno even up to €2,158. Households spend the largest part of the wage on housing.
The Minimum Living Wage Platform updated the amount a person needs to cover their basic needs on Tuesday. According to the (…)
, by YOUNG Eden
Throughout the Netherlands in March and April, staff at universities and colleges have gone on strike against the proposed cuts to higher education. These historic strikes show that employees will not simply accept the attack on science. But to build real countervailing power, more is needed. (…)
, by SAVIĆ Julija
Nursery teachers from across Croatia gathered in Zagreb’s main square on 12 April, issuing a symbolic “yellow card” to Education Minister Radovan Fuchs after years of frustration. Despite laws mandating equal pay with primary school colleagues and limiting class sizes to 20 children, these (…)
, by LIVADA Igor, LONČAR Jovica
The beginning of a new year is also an opportunity to recapitulate events from the old one. So this year, we have prepared for you an overview of workers’ actions that occurred in 2024. Our researchers note a stagnation in actions. Are workers better off or are they just less willing to take to (…)
, by SAVIĆ Julija
Artificial intelligence in Croatia remains a thing of the future, overshadowed by stagnation and declining translation prices. Results from the European Language Industry Survey show that fear of artificial intelligence goes hand in hand with such trends, due to which freelance translators (…)
, by Esquerda.net (PT)
Mariana Mortágua announced a petition to make shift work allowances mandatory, to bring forward the retirement age and to set a maximum of 35 hours for those who work shifts. The Bloco coordinator also spoke about the dangers of Uberization and the challenges facing unionism today.
The Left (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
An unprecedented strike, writes Phil Hearse, by 170,000 public sector workers across 15 unions in Northern Ireland took place on January 16 over the UK government’s refusal to pay parity wages with other UK workers, spotlighting a growing crisis in local governance and public sector funding (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Despite getting their last pay packet in November 2022 and only receiving sporadic state benefits since then, there are over 200 workers at the GKN factory in Florence continuing the struggle to save and reconfigure their factory. There have been very few exemplary struggles like this in recent (…)
, by ANDERSEN Nina Trige
MY WORK / EU parliamentarian and former trade union leader Marianne Vind has written about the problems on the European labor market in the 21st century. It could have been an important book. It just isn’t.
It has been at least 17 years since the social democratic MEP Marianne Vind actually (…)
, by SARTZEKIS Andreas
Since his election in June 2019, Mitsotakis has been attacking young people and workers, taking advantage of their resentment of the four years of Syriza and the division on the left.
Despite the brutal anti-social and repressive measures, the struggles have never stopped since 2019, and even (…)
, by SCHÄFER Jakob / SCHAEFER Jakob
In Germany, price rises are particularly high, the rate has been exceeding 8 per cent for months. According to the economic research institute WSI, which is close to the trade unions, real wages have already fallen sharply over the past three years and the increase in the cost of living (…)
, by SIMMEL Jonathan
On 1 March, collective agreements in the private sector will be renewed in Denmark. The top discussion, including in the mass media, is whether Denmark is heading for the first general strike in the private sector since 1998.
There was already a high risk of conflict last autumn. In the (…)
, by BRULEZ Sébastien
Slowly but surely, Belgium is entering into crisis. Inflation, especially in energy prices, is hitting the working classes hard. Mobilizations are multiplying but a coordinated and combative response, capable of making the government and employers tremble, is lacking.
On 9 November 2022, a (…)
, by Karmina (SK)
Negotiations between the Slovak government and the Medical Trade Union Association (LOZ) ended on Saturday with an agreement, the details of which are not yet known. According to initial statements from both sides, all the union’s demands should be largely met, from the top-up of hospital (…)
, by SARTZEKIS Andreas
17 November 1973 is one of the key dates in contemporary Greek history and in the country’s political and social struggles: following the countless acts of resistance to the fascist regime of the colonels’ dictatorship (1967-1974), which was put in place at the instigation of the CIA, hundreds (…)
, par Anticapitalistas, BFS/MPS, Ecosocialist.scot, Ensemble ! (MAGE), FIN (Norway), ISO (Allemagne), NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste, SAP-Antikapitalisten / Gauche anticapitaliste, Sinistra Anticapitalista, Socialist Resistance (Britain), Socialistisk Politik, solidaritéS, SPQI (Portugal) , Toupeira Vermelha, TPT & Magazine « 4 » - Greek Section of FI
For several months now, strike movements and popular mobilizations have been developing in Europe – both inside and outside the European Union - to resist the explosion in the cost of living.
The price of energy, food, rents, transport has increased over the past two years in all countries, (…)
, by ALALUF Mateo
Belgium is no exception to the wave of strikes in this hot European social autumn.
The general strike decided by the three trade union organizations - the socialist FGTB (General Federation of Labour of Belgium), the Christian Democrat CSC (Confederation of Christian Trade Unions) and the (…)
, by FERNANDEZ Brais
After months of discussion at discreet negotiating tables, the government, led in this case by Yolanda Díaz, CCOO and UGT trade unions and the CEOE (Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales – the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations) announced an agreement to readapt the (…)
, by MULLER Victor
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 a large majority (56%) voted in favour of the socialization of big real estate groups in Germany’s capital, Berlin, in a popular initiative referendum.
This referendum followed a democratic self-organised campaign that has already been going on for several years (…)
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