AFTER TEN months of political wrangling and two inconclusive elections, Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) has secured the support of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to form a minority gov Read more...

After an election campaign that lasted 597 days and cost $2.6 billion, Donald Trump has ridden a wave of anti-establishment anger to become the 45th President of the United States. Read more...

在资本主义经济危机和新自由主义结构改革中妇女往往是首当其冲、受害最深的群体。在巴基斯坦，妇女的就业基本被局限在“非正式”的行业中。这些行业很庞大，它遍布城市和乡镇，雇佣了大约6500万工人，约占全国劳动力总数的四分之三。

在这些行业里工作的工人，不管是男是女，都享受不到国家劳动法规的保障。没有社会保障和医疗保险，也没有养老金和带薪休假的福利，大多数人领到的工资要少于国家规定的最低工资。 Read more...

España terminó 2015 con elecciones parlamentarias en que el sistema de dos partidos, que duró décadas, sufrió un golpe histórico. Read more...

More than a million people marched in Paris in protest at the government’s attempt to demolish the “Code du Travail” which regulates labour rights, including the 35 hour working week, collective barga Read more...

As this journal goes to press, France’s President, Francois Hollande, and his government under Prime Minister Manuel Valls have been shaken by months of workers’ strikes and demonstrations, but they h Read more...

French Trade unions have staged two nationwide days of action in response to the Socialist Party government's use of emergency powers to impose its reforms to the Work Law without a vote in the Nation Read more...

President Hollande’s Socialist government has decided to use emergency powers to force through the ‘El Khomri’ labour reform bill, a major plank of the PS government’s austerity offensive, which has p Read more...