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Contents

Introduction

CORONA PANDEMIC IN THE EU

Pre-diseased systems: Health, economy, government

Pre-diseased health systems

Pre-diseased economy and “Reconstruction Europe”

The alternatives

Part One

LABOR INJUSTICE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

1. Work as a human right!

Labor and labor injustice - the great taboo

Labor rights as human rights: Suppressed

The systemic crisis in the EU

2. The early days: Geopolitical configuration

Suppression of the democratic resistance movements

USA as regulatory power I: Marshall Plan

United States as Regulatory Power II: NATO

In convoy: Eastern Enlargement of EU and NATO

Nationalism, ethno-politics

3. The seeds of the EU: Coal and Steel Community, EEC, Euratom

European Coal and Steel Community

Action Committee for the United States of Europe

The European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM)

European Economic Community (EEC)

4. Expansion to (almost) all of Europe

Single Market, EURO, Eastern Enlargement

Today's capitalist bureaucracy

Dominant capitalist players in the EU

5. Economic policy principles: Without labor rights

Privatization

Aid to companies: Prohibited, but lavishly distributed

Subsidies without conditions for labor rights

Free trade agreements and global supply chains

6. Labor injustice: Direct legal instruments

PRIMARY LAW

SECONDARY LAW I: DIRECTIVES

No collective labor law

Flexicurity: Flexibilization without security

Safety and health at work?

Equal rights for men and women at work?

Whistleblowers or corruption in EU bureaucracy

SECONDARY LAW II: JUDGMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN JUDICIARY

European Court of Justice (ECJ)

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

7. In the crisis: Even more labor injustice!

European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR, 2017)

BlackRock & Co: Private pension provision

Eight EU institutions to enforce labor injustice

European Social Fund ESF as soft power

Labor migration between poor and even poorer states

European minimum wage ?

Part Two

STIRRINGSAGAINST EXPLOITATION AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT

On the situation of the working class in the EU

The new era of social and political organization

From the defensive against the capitalists

1. UK: Where the new labor injustice began and will not end with Brexit

Rise of the working class and its humiliations

Bought Brexit Campaign: The EU as a surrogate enemy

Gig workers are organizing themselves - but with Soros' help

2. EU founding and core states

Benelux: Rich, at the expense of the other EU states

Germany: Leading labor injustice state

France: The leading movements against capitalist Europe

3. Later EU Member States

Spain: Migrant organization in EU vegetable garden

Ireland: Against Ryanair - First Europe-wide organization of pilots

Austria: 30-hour week for carers!

4. Ex-Yugoslav states

North Macedonia: A voice for women textile workers!

Croatia: Shipyard workers - strikes and hopes pinned on China

5. Scandinavian states

6. Eastern European states

Hungary 2019: Workers suddenly realize their strength

Poland: Internationally networked against Amazon

7. Baltic States

Lithuania: Logistics center of the EU

8. Associated states

Switzerland: “We went on strike against our invisibility”

Abbreviations

Glossary

Bibliography (selection)

Annotations