Looking at the more credible indicators of secured employment, incomes, percentage of the population receiving adequate social services, poverty incidence, the number of hungry population etc. shows that the global crisis is not yet over.

Recessions come to an end, eventually. Usually, the union movement comes out of them battered, with less power and fewer resources than when we went in. Corporations use recessions not only to claw back our earlier victories on wages and working conditions but to weaken our structural ability to fight back when profits are up.

New Atlanticism and Military Keynesianism are rarely addressed topics when European economic policymaking is debated; but there is indeed a great need to question developments in the European Union from these two angles.

The workers Submit to Triumph HQ a joint appeal denouncing and resisting the anti-worker and unjust retrenchment of workers by German-owned Triumph International.