Haledon, New Jersey – The American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark proudly opens the exhibit We Are One – Honoring Immigrant Garment Workers by Rachel Bernstein and May Ying Chen on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024.

The Archives contestataires of Geneva have developed a database of primary sources on environmental struggles in West (French-speaking) Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century. The site environnement.archivescontestataires.ch offers an overview of the main archival holdings on the subject in Switzerland, enriched with brief descriptions, metadata and tags to facilitate research.

Join us for our all-day event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the events at Orgreave on 18 June 1984.

En septembre 1915, des militant·es socialistes de différents pays d’Europe se rassemblent dans le village de Zimmerwald, en Suisse, pour tenir une conférence contre la Première Guerre mondiale. Réaffirmant leur opposition au conflit en cours, les participant·es s’inscrivent résolument à contre-courant du discours dominant et adoptent un retentissant manifeste qui appelle à une paix immédiate, dénonçant la guerre impérialiste et tous les États belligérants.

Cette journée d’études prendra appui sur le projet «Mémoires, Archives, Transmission des Objets militantS en Pays de la Loire» (MATOS-PDL) qui associe des membres de trois laboratoires de recherche (CENS, TEMOS, CHS) et plusieurs institutions partenaires (Archives départementales de Loire-Atlantique, Centre d’histoire du travail, Centre de Documentation sur l’Histoire du Mouvement Ouvrier et du Travail, Centre des Archives du féminisme).

Friday 14 June 2024 9.00am to 6.00pm hosted by the Department of International History

The issue of a distinct left-wing international vision seems relatively overlooked in contemporary academic work and politics, with profound implications for public life. 

Weighed down by its international contradictions, Europe is ill-prepared to grapple with illiberalism, climate breakdown, war, and migration in a coherent- let alone leftist- manner. 

Since the 1970s, Western Europe and North America have experienced a socio-economic transformation that scholars and policy-makers have termed deindustrialisation. Initially analysed as a trend towards a post-industrial society, deindustrialisation is now viewed as a symptom of deep crisis in the age of globalisation. In Switzerland many companies relocated their factories to low-wage countries, closed production sites, or restructured departments. Workers were laid off, and factory buildings were left to rust or placed on the property market.