EAN: 9783347372672

IMPERIUM EU - WERNER RÜGEMER KARTONIERT (TB)

Since the end of World War II  the European Union has been a joint creation of the victorious
USA and Western European corporations  banks and newly founded Christian  then also
conservative  liberal and increasingly also social democratic parties. The institutional
consolidation since the preliminary stages in the 1950s was characterized by the military and
economic dual character: first by NATO and the Marshall Plan  later by the parallel eastward
expansion of NATO and membership in the EU. The ever-expanding capital bureaucracy in the
founding states of Luxembourg and Belgium (Commission  Parliament  judiciary  agencies  NATO
headquarters) promotes private capitalist interests through privatization  subsidies 
directives  court rulings  international treaties. Labor rights are deeply below the standard
of Universal Human Rights and the International Labor Organization ILO. In particular 
collective labor rights such as for unions and employee representation are not promoted. Thus 
not only the EU member states  but also associated and candidate states have become a vast
resource for low-wage labor for Western subcontracting services (automotive  pharmaceutical 
retail  digital services) and growing  often illegal  migrant labor (truck drivers 
construction workers  doctors  nurses  home care  prostitution  seasonal agricultural labor).
What is covered up in the leading media: In all 28 EU states (also England before Brexit) and
associated states many spontaneous as well as organized defensive struggles are taking place:
For the first time in this book they are presented with examples from 12 states.

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