It is time for the EU to move away from its inegalitarian policies towards the countries of the South. A revived European left must come up with a plan for restructuring a profoundly unjust global economic system.

A series of verdicts by the Permanent Tribunal of the People, culminating in a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels in November 2009, finds several European multinationals guilty of human, labour, or environmental rights abuses, and puts under scrutiny the complicity of European commercial policy.

Is circular migration a way a rethinking third country development and the status of the migrant? Only if it is interpreted in a radical way which goes beyond economic indicators. A European Alternatives Research briefing by Danai Vassilaki

Migration is widely recognised as the crucial worldwide political issue for the coming century, and there is no area of politics which in which it does not enter.

Immigrants in Greece exist everywhere, but no one knows where. No one talks about them. They are ignored. The Greek policy makers remember them when they talk about criminality and the perils of social instability.

“Turkey does not want to become the biggest refugee camp in the world” said the Turkish minister for European Affairs, Egemen Bagis, as Turkey is facing steady pressures emanating from Greece and the EU according to which Turkey does not fight efficiently enough against illegal immigration.

As the beginning of a programme to “internally distribute refugees” between European member states, which will soon be promoted by the European Commission, France is about to welcome a hundred or so refugees from the Horn of Africa.

Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp presents why a political project can no longer define itself starting from a vision that is sovereigntist, national and territorial.

The centre of detention for ‘illegal’ immigrants on the island of Lampedusa has become the most celebrated symbol of the treatment reserved for the « boat people » of the African continent by Fortress Europe. By Gilbert Achcar

Migrants are here to stay, and their number is bound to increase in the coming years: their practices and their struggles will play a key role in any attempt to imagine and build a “positive notion of European Citizenship”.