Revolting Europe
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Are we Portuguese living beyond our means?
By Jose Manuel Pureza If there wasn’t the Troika there wouldn’t be money to pay salaries or pensions – this assertion is repeated ad nauseam by the heralds of foreign intervention in Portugal. And this is immediately followed by the argument that this is because we have long been living beyond our means, squandering money … Continue reading
Billions for shareholders, crumbs for workers
Dividend payouts in France increased seven fold over the past two decades, new figures show, underlining widening inequality of wealth in Europe’s second largest economy. Over the same period workers got very little of this wealth that they had created, with wages rising by around a third. An astonishing 550 billion euros was handed out to … Continue reading
The Troika’s Men in Black and the Crime of Organised Money
Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan Torres Lopez Spain has once again received a visit from the so-called Men in Black, the Troika inspectors, coming to elucidate if all is going as … Continue reading
The class nature of inflation
Prices rises affect different income groups differently new figures for Italy show. One more argument for wage hikes for middle and low incomes New figures show how inflation has hit the worst-off hardest in Italy. Official data released for the seven years between 2005 and 2012 showed that those with lowest average spending saw it … Continue reading
Portugal’s unions hail court rejection of pension, wage cuts
Portuguese unions welcomed the decision by the country’s Constitutional Court to strike down four out of nine austerity measures in this year’s budget. The court on Friday rejected cuts in pensioners’ and public servants’ holiday bonuses, as well as reductions to sickness leave and unemployment benefits, which formed part of a swinging austerity plan designed … Continue reading
Everything you wanted to know…about Austerity in the EU
Poverty, unemployment, wages, the economy, public services, tax dodging, wealth and gender inequality – check out the latest facts and figures in the Europe of the bankers and austerity. http://wp.me/P1bMfw-oA
An age old problem
Forget ageing – capital’s class war against labour is behind the crisis in pensions and welfare worldwide, says Vincent Navarro Thomas Malthus was an economist who believed that the resources of the planet were limited, fixed and constant. Hence he believed that the growth of the population would reach a level that there would not be … Continue reading
How Austerity is Hurting Women in Europe – In Numbers
Women are disproportionally affected by austerity cuts because they are society’s main carers, and the main users of public services and welfare recipients, where there have been heavy reductions in budgets; they predominate in low paid, insecure employment, which is expanding, facilitated by labour counter-reforms; because they are heavily employed in the public sector where … Continue reading
Inequality back on the agenda in Germany
A recent opinion poll revealed that most Germans think top managers in the country’s big companies are paid too much. Three out of four Germans say pay packets were too large… Read on at Left Foot Forward
Austerity swells Spain’s precariat by two million
Spain’s precariat has swollen to more than 20.6 million – or 43.74% of the population, thanks to rising unemployment, wage and welfare cuts, according to the tax officials’ union. Since 2007, austerity and neo-liberal reforms have meant two million more Spaniards live in households with incomes of less than 12,000 euros a year, finds a … Continue reading
An Answer to Italy’s Forgotten Southern Question
IN THE RADICAL PRESS / IL MANIFESTO By Tonino Perna In the 1960s and 1970s reports by the Association for the Development of Industry in the South (Svimez) on the health of the Mezzogiorno were followed with great attention and aroused a great political debate. Pasquale Saraceno, passionate president of Svimez, was exalted or depressed … Continue reading
Europe needs wage cuts, but…
The last time I looked, Portuguese wages were the lowest in Western Europe. So says the official Eurostat data: But the Bank of Portugal doesn’t reckon they are low enough Why? Apparently ‘unit labour costs’ – the ratio of the cost of workers (including social security costs) per unit of output – have increased over … Continue reading
Portugal strike over wage, holiday cuts paralyses trains
Portugal: a strike by train drivers and ticket guards paralyzed all passenger and freight trains Thursday. The strike, called over cuts to wages, rest days and holidays to be introduced under the right-wing government’s austerity plan, will also cause some disruption to services on Friday. According to unions, further strikes are planned in June in the Lisbon and … Continue reading
French Fat Cat Feeding Frenzy Continues
Gruel for the masses, cream for the lucky few. A familiar tale. Inequality of wealth, and the greed and excess of France’s 1% was a significant theme in the French Presidential election. The highest paid executives of the top 40 listed companies in France had been provided with a slap up 39 million-euro meal for … Continue reading
What rise will Germany’s workers get? Not 8.7%. That’s for CEOs
Friday is supposed to be crunch day in talks between unions and employers over public sector pay. Verdi, one of the largest trade unions in Germany, earlier this month rejected an offer of a 3.3% pay rise staggered over two years for around two million public sector workers. Its claim was for a 6.5% pay … Continue reading
WAGES SLIDE
Wealth Inequality in Europe
RADICAL VOICES
Italy’s Healthcare Crisis
NO TO WATER PRIVATISATION
Filthy Rich
SANTA DRAGHI’S COMING
WORKERS FIGHTING BACK
FLORENCE’S BUS LUMACA
Massive Spanish protest
FRENCH FACTORY OCCUPATION
International Workers Day 2012
DATA
Hate Crimes in Europe
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Discrimination: legal news
- FYR Macedonia - CSOs Reaction to the Commission for Protection against Discrimination’s Annual Report (PDF 61 kB)
- FYR Macedonia - Annual Reports of the Two National Human Rights Institutions Tasked With Protection Against Discrimination (PDF 67 kB)
- FYR Macedonia - Two Studies Assess the Legal Framework and Functioning of the Equality Body (PDF 79 kB)
