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November 17, 2009
Dr. Steve McGiffen will address a workshop in Stockholm (Sweden) about European politics and the current condition of the left in government and opposition. The workshop is organized by the Swedish Labour Education Association on Saturday November 28th.
Dr. McGiffen's contribution is entitled 'Swimming Against the Tide: the Success of the Dutch Socialist Party in the First Decade of the 21st Century'. A paper with the same title will be published at the same time in Swedish translation by the Swedish journal Socialistisk Debatt.
July 8, 2009
Pluto Press (London) has released Dr. Steve McGiffen's book about the European Union and water privatization: Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation, which he co-authored with EU Parliament member Kartika Liotard, of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands.
The authors' hypothesis is that European corporations, aided and abetted by the European Commission, are conducting a drive for privatization of water supply in developing countries which is exacerbating the problems associated with this essential service and jeopardizing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
November 2, 2008
Dr. Steve McGiffen participated in an international conference about rail privatization in Europe, hosted in London last June by the British Transport Labor Union RMT. The conference was attended by over 100 labor unionists from around the Eurasian continent, including Turkey and Latvia. Dr McGiffen spoke on the ideology driving the current privatization and its international roots.
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