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What it means when Jacinda Ardern calls time

Jacinda Ardern’s resignation reflects the tough headwinds young progressive women face as political leaders.

The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered.

Digitalisation is not technologically determined but socially shaped—including by new forms of collective action.

Trade unions have been winning battles across Europe to halt the erosion of real wages but can’t win this war alone.

$Corporate power: arbitrage in a fractured world$

At Davos the corporate elite are discussing a more co-operative world—yet their arbitrage relies on its rifts.

EU anti-discrimination law applies to all ‘personal work’—not just employment contracts—the Court of Justice has ruled.

The EU makes a difference on whether arms exports are governed by values or interests—but it could do more.

Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.

Addressing Europe’s huge challenges requires treating Europe as more than the sum of its national parts.

With the ITUC General Council due to meet tomorrow, answers are urgently needed to the deeper issues raised by this affair.

Too few countries have ratified the ILO convention on domestic work. Too many don’t see the need.

The war in Ukraine has highlighted how states and platforms are increasingly in military lock-step.

To counter Russian disinformation and take on populist parties, European politicians should shape the debate around Ukrainian refugees.

Lisa Pelling’s parents moved to Nicaragua to support the revolution. Its leader, she writes, has turned it into a tyranny.

The European Political Community will be a distraction, at best, in the institutional architecture of the continent.