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		<title>A Week in Revolting Europe</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/12/20/a-week-in-revolting-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the stories on the web. Read it now  &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; A Week in Europe &#8211; Archive 2013 Friday 13 December  Friday 6 December Friday 29 Nov Friday 22 Nov Friday 15 Nov Friday 8 Nov  Friday 1 November Friday 25 October Friday 18 &#8230; <a href="/2013/12/20/a-week-in-revolting-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=4246&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 reasons why Greece is going on strike this week</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/11/04/7-reasons-why-greece-is-going-on-strike-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek workers will hold a 24-hour strike this week to protest against austerity measures and public sector layoffs demanded by the country’s international lenders, led by the IMF-ECB-EU &#8216;Troika&#8217;. Greece’s public and private sector unions ADEDY and GSEE will launch a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, November 6th 2013. Here&#8217;s seven reasons why they will &#8230; <a href="/2013/11/04/7-reasons-why-greece-is-going-on-strike-this-week/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7442&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France&#8217;s battle over Sunday shop opening</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/10/04/should-french-shops-open-on-sundays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a revolt in France, we are told. Not about growing economic misery, rising unemployment and falling living standards. Not in anger at the scandalous, and still widening inequality of wealth. It is about opening shops on Sunday. The press say it&#8217;s about freedom, that it&#8217;s about jobs, about growth. But is it? Two large &#8230; <a href="/2013/10/04/should-french-shops-open-on-sundays/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7330&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who will represent the educated precariat?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/27/who-will-represent-the-educated-precariat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crisis in Spain and elsewhere has accelerated the emergence of a new social group , making it much more visible in the media and in social and political terms. But unions and the are failing to respond to their needs, argues Bruno Estrada* The crisis in Spain has accelerated the emergence of a new &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/27/who-will-represent-the-educated-precariat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7299&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beating the rip off supermarkets &#8211; French style</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/08/22/beating-the-food-speculators-french-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarkets squeeze small farmers while ripping off consumers to fill the pockets of shareholders and pay huge salaries to executives. It is a familiar story. In France last week, unions and the Communist Party, were out in town squares and public places as part of a campaign to fight back. In Paris and in 25 &#8230; <a href="/2013/08/22/beating-the-food-speculators-french-style/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7207&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy in the Summer: A Bel Paese for tourists, not so beautiful for the workers</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/08/16/italy-in-the-summer-a-bel-paese-for-tourists-not-so-beautiful-for-the-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roberta Manieri Employers blame the crisis and the need to cut costs. From Italy&#8217;s South to the North, workers are being blackmailed into accepting increasingly exploitative working conditions, say unions representing workers in a sector employing around a million people Quality, dignity and professionalism should go hand in hand with the job. Even more &#8230; <a href="/2013/08/16/italy-in-the-summer-a-bel-paese-for-tourists-not-so-beautiful-for-the-workers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7192&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employers call for &#8216;tax haven&#8217; in France</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/20/employers-call-for-tax-haven-in-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Patrick Apel-Muller The new head of the French Employers Association MEDEF, Pierre Gattaz, considers himself to have the ear of power, so much as to say aloud what employers want in France: ‘A tax haven’. He did not mean by this one of those tiny states which are used to launder money from corporations &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/20/employers-call-for-tax-haven-in-france/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7150&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Fiat prefers newspapers to cars</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/13/why-fiat-prefers-newspapers-to-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiat prefers to invest in newspapers these days, rather than car-making. And it is apparently all the fault of the unions. Giorgio Cremaschi explains Announcing this week for the umpteenth time the investment in its Sevel plant in Abruzzo, southern Italy, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said that those investments will be the last in Italy, &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/13/why-fiat-prefers-newspapers-to-cars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7061&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s unions march united for jobs</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/22/why-italys-unions-are-marching-together-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since 2003, Italy&#8217;s three main trade union centrals marched together in Rome on Saturday, to call for government action on jobs. The joint action by CGIL, UIL and CISL, bringing up more than 100,000 into the streets, comes as fresh data exposes the social catastrophe caused by EU-backed austerity and neo-liberal &#8230; <a href="/2013/06/22/why-italys-unions-are-marching-together-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6963&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands rally for publicly run health services in Madrid</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/19/thousands-rally-for-publicly-run-health-services-in-madrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 60,000 health workers and citizens turned out in the streets of Madrid in the fifth mass protest against the privatisation of the capital&#8217;s health services since the start of the year. Unions CCOO and UGT and the radical United Left party formed part of the &#8216;white tide&#8217; rising against the plans of the &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/19/thousands-rally-for-publicly-run-health-services-in-madrid/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6842&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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