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Miguel Afonso Caetano"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassStruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassStruggle</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ThirdWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThirdWay</a>

MuirAmazon workers in British Columbia have won Union certification. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MakeAmazonPay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MakeAmazonPay</a> <a href="https://mronline.org/2025/07/22/amazon-workers-in-b-c-have-won-union-certification/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mronline.org/2025/07/22/amazon-workers-in-b-c-have-won-union-certification/</a>

Muir“From now on, it is the relentless accumulation of capital and the social formation structured to guarantee its continuation which ought to be held responsible for the ongoing ecological crisis. Blame capitalism; capitalism and its expansionist logic; the capitalist mode of production that overburdens the planet’s ecosystems with grave consequences.” <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NotesFromBelow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotesFromBelow</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClassComposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassComposition</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ecosocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecosocialism</a> <a href="https://notesfrombelow.org/article/towards-disequal-transition-notes-on-the-ecologica" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://notesfrombelow.org/article/towards-disequal-transition-notes-on-the-ecologica</a>

MuirUkraine: the ups and downs of workplace organising Review by Simon Pirani of A Socialist Activist in Industrial Workplaces under Ukrainian bourgeois democracy 1998-2003 (Sotsialistichnii aktivist na promislovome pidpriemstv v umovakh Ukrainskoi burzhuaznoi demokratii 1999-2003, “Ekologia”: Odesa, 2025). <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Organising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Organising</a> <a href="https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/ukraine-the-ups-and-downs-of-workplace-organising/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/ukraine-the-ups-and-downs-of-workplace-organising/</a>

MuirThe Pan-African Workers Association (PAWA) have produced a new publication The Pan-African Worker. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/a-new-dawn-for-the-working-class-the-pan-african-worker" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/a-new-dawn-for-the-working-class-the-pan-african-worker</a>

MuirOrganisational Innovations Among US Worker Centres: Lessons learned from the Street Vendor Project in New York City <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersInquiry</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NotesFromBelow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotesFromBelow</a> <a href="https://notesfrombelow.org/article/organisational-innovations-among-us-worker-centres" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://notesfrombelow.org/article/organisational-innovations-among-us-worker-centres</a>

MuirCo-operation Among Co-operators: Reflections from a Cross-Border Conference in Belfast. The ‘Co-operation between Co-operators’ joint conference in Belfast marks the first time in a generation that the Irish and British co-operative societies have collaborated, with the aim of transforming society through the dissemination of ideas around economic democracy. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cooperatives</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://www.rundale.org/2025/05/29/co-operation-among-co-operators-reflections-from-a-cross-border-conference-in-belfast/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rundale.org/2025/05/29/co-operation-among-co-operators-reflections-from-a-cross-border-conference-in-belfast/</a>

Muir“With our dignity high, no repression can stop us,” say Panamanian workers <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://mronline.org/2025/05/23/with-our-dignity-high-no-repression-can-stop-us-say-panamanian-workers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mronline.org/2025/05/23/with-our-dignity-high-no-repression-can-stop-us-say-panamanian-workers/</a>

Muir(UK) In January, workers at Tower Hamlets' primary independent domestic violence service were threatened with redundancies. By unionising, they not only saved their jobs — they also defended the survivors who rely on their support. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unions</a> <a href="https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/finding-solace-in-organising/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/finding-solace-in-organising/</a>

MuirProletarian Disorganization as the Problem of Our Time. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BaseBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BaseBuilding</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersMovement</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Autonomism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Autonomism</a> <a href="https://communistcaucus.com/our-moment/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://communistcaucus.com/our-moment/</a>

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