Precariousness

Today, November 3rd 2006, with two linked actions we have taken action against precarity and for the immediate closing of all CPT/Migrant’s Dentention Centres. In Venice we have occupied the the "Future of Work" Meeting’s conference room where a press conference  (...)

On the first of May, i.e. MAYDAY, for more than a century the global holiday of radical workers, We, the EUROMAYDAY network, are jointly organizing MAYDAY PARADES of temporary, part-time, contract workers and other precarious youth, along with militant unions and  (...)

This Mayday we invite all self-organised workers, migrant workers, non-unionised workers, agency workers, cash in hand workers, dole claimants, free-lancers, work rejecters and all of those who fall outside of traditional union organisation to join our autonomous bloc  (...)

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package CPE on the 16th of January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”. The law would see employers hire 18-26 year  (...)

Last Saturday, an estimated 1.5 million people surged on to the streets of France in protest against Dominique de Villepin’s faltering government. Sparked by weeks of student opposition, and of teargassed occupations and demonstrations, the scenes have revived  (...)

Over the past couple of years, an intriguing new movement has been emerging from the chaos of Europe’s new left. Abandoned by unions and corporations, forsaken by the shrinking welfare state and increasingly vulnerable to the whims of the market, people have  (...)