TRADE UNIONS are deeply affected by the situation in which they operate. This is clearly shown if we compare the history of unions in Russia and Britain—one the home of the world’s first workers’ state, the other the first haven of mass reformism. Trade union experience in Russia was very meager. Before the 1905 revolution unions hardly existed. It is true that in 1901 a police chief called Col...

Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017 on a programme that promised to confront the structural antagonism between country’s social model and liberalising thrust European integration since Maastricht. His novel political offer combined supply-side reforms at home strengthening dimension Union, starting with operation economic governance. And he saw simultaneous explicitly linked...

Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) argued that ‘anarchy is the highest expression of order’. This assertion, clashing with the bourgeois interpretation of anarchy as chaos, perfectly captured the theories that were being elaborated by Reclus and other anarchist geographers including Pëtr Kropotkin (1842-1921). At the centre of these theories lay the conviction that societies organised around mutual aid ...

This study explored the determinants of massive vote shift that characterised UK’s 2019 elections. To do so, this firstly investigated opinions expressed by pro-Labour social groups about hot issues political campaign; secondly, it conducted a cross-constituency analysis on vote. The present findings reveal emphasised Conservative manifesto tallied with traditional left-wing groups. statistical...

The purpose of this article is to account for one the aspects not addressed so far by extensive bibliography on National Workers University (UON): characteristics only student organization officially recognized rector and its formation during operation institution under government Perón: Argentine Federation Students Obrera (FADEUO). In sense, we will present how incipient entity was constitute...

Abstract The apparent contradictions of British politics in the early nineteenth century have long confounded historians. Lord Liverpool’s ministry (1812–27) vehemently, and often violently, rejected constitutional change. Yet it simultaneously implemented a raft improvements governance. We argue here that empire is key to resolving this conundrum. Particularly from 1822, Liverpool launched ove...