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TRADE deal TTIP “cannot be accepted in a democratic country,” John McDonnell said this weekend as 250,000 people marched in Berlin against the EU-US pact.
An international day of action against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which could allow US transnational companies to sue EU governments for trying to protect their public services from privatisation, saw demonstrators across Europe barrack Brussels bureaucrats for selling out.
War on Want executive director John Hilary told the Star that the popular displays showed that Europeans were waking up to the reality of the EU.
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR