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What new institutions and power structures need to be created in the just transition to a future fashion industry, and how?
How can we realise a really international mass movement for a Just Transition to a new fashion industry?
Notes from a workshop with workers and trade union representatives from Serbia
Union struggles in Serbia face institutional and economic obstacles that directly threaten the idea of a Just Transition and effective freedom of association. Union representatives are exposed to direct repression. Examples of 48 criminal c…
Do you agree with the thesis that there is a double standard regarding the textile worker, that is, that we are less willing to accept and take an interest in their oppression the more it involves racialized and/or non-Western people?
The prospect of building a mass social movement must first come to terms with the colonial and racist past that permeates Western culture today. Cultural, and often geographical, distance can lend themselves as causes for the lack of involv…
Collective POWER
CCC Germany, with SÜDWIND Institut, organised an online editing session in Germany.
Participants commented that it was empowering / strengthening to be part of editing a manifesto like this. To feel like part of a movement, something big…
Do you agree with the thesis that only a mass social movement can change the exploitative fashion industry?
This topic emerged from feedback from participants in the Faircademy training series (https://faircademy.org/) 2024/2025 in Germany in April 2025.
How do we build solidarity and cooperation between the environmental and labour movements?
The environmental movement in fashion is often focused on the quantity of clothes the industry produces, the materials that are used, and they way they are disposed of. But the system that pollutes our environment is the same that exploits …
As a worker in the fashion industry, if you could talk to those who wear the clothes you make, what would you ask? What would you like them to know?
Workers who are involved in making, moving, reusing or recycling clothes and people who wear them are often very far away. Share what you would say to the people who wear the clothes you make -whether it's about your working conditions, the…
As a consumer, if you could talk to those who produce the clothes you wear, what would you ask? What would you like them to know?
Workers who make clothes and people who wear them are often very far away. Reflect on what you'd want to ask the people who make your clothes, about their lives, working conditions, or how your choices impact them. How would your consumer b…