Euromarch— The Struggle for a Social Europe

Abstract

COLOGNE WILL PLAY HOST this summer to the summits of both the European Union and the G8. For 3 weeks Cologne will be the centre of attention as world leaders meet to plan the next stage of their neo-liberal strategy and their opponents demonstrate resistance to these policies and themselves meet to develop alternatives to combat the increasing divide between rich and poor, between powerful and powerless. This resistance is increasingly manifest at local, regional and global levels and organisations are developing which express these tendencies. One such organisation is the pan-European Euromarch campaign against unemployment, job insecurity and social exclusion and this article aims to document its emergence and development and to begin to analyse its significance and potential.