EU politics
Asbjørn Wahl: The Elephant in the Room
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Aviation
Asbjørn Wahl – A Red-Green New Deal in Transport: Workers’ Power + Renewable Electrification of the Whole Economy
The EU”s transport sector is like most businesses run contrary to existing laws and regulations, but lack of control and enforcement makes it possible to operate on the side of the law (if the US […]
Climate Crisis
Asbjørn Wahl – Trade Unions and Climate Change: the Need for a Programmatic Shift
Up to now unions have not played a terribly important role in combatting the climate crisis, suspecting it is just another excuse to attack workers’ rights and destroy jobs. But as we all must learn, […]
Economics
Asbjørn Wahl: The Climate Struggle – a Struggle for Social Power
“Because measures to combat climate change will require great changes in society, we face a major social struggle. A narrow focus on environmental policy issues simply will not suffice.” Asbjørn Wahl is Norwegian trade union […]
Austerity
Asbjørn Wahl: Austerity Policies In Europe: There Is No Alternative
“In addition to the democratic deficit that is built into the EU institutions, they have to a great extent acquired their form and content during the neoliberal era. They are therefore dominated by the interests […]
Deregulation
Asbjørn Wahl – The Crisis of Social Democracy
In Norway the labour Party “changed from being a mass organization for working people into an administrator of the class compromise”, writes Asbjørn Wahl. Neo-lieralism has no desire for compormise and thus no use for […]
EU politics
Asbjørn Wahl – Norwegian elections: Another right-wing victory – and a serious Labour defeat
In Norway’s elections last week it looked like a repeat of the previous election. Not so writes Asbjørn Wahl By Asbjørn Wahl, Norwegian trade union and political activist The centre-left failed to remove […]