European unions support Coca Cola En Lucha in Spain

NGG from Germany, CGT from France and LBC/NVK from Belgium together with the international organisation IUF participate in a working session and an action day in Madrid. After the merging of different bottlers in the Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, the company is undertaking a significant restructuration of the production chain in the region ...

Resisting Evictions Across Europe

As this timely report makes depressingly clear, the forcible eviction of people from their homes – whether rented, owned or occupied – is on the rise in Europe. In some respects, Europe has arrived late to the global eviction party that each year sees millions of people displaced from housing across the world ...

Spain’s Indignados

For three years now, Europe has been in the throes of the worst economic crisis since the end of the Second World War. Especially in the poorer countries of the EU, the crisis has struck with full force. In preparatory obedience, to make sure it would indeed fulfil all the expectations of international speculators, Spain brutally slashed its public budget ...