Trade ministers reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a deal which, if passed, will deepen inequality and climate change while boosting the power of multinational corporations over working people. To halt TPP will take a full mobilization of union membership, including through workplace action.
The workers’ movement in Europe needs to take a lead in demanding that the refugees are granted asylum, helping organize the relief, and encouraging the refugees themselves to get organized.
What is happening here is part of an international trend, which in some countries has gone much further, with the complete collapse of key establishment parties and the rapid emergence of new political forces both on the left and the right.
