"International trade unionism is facing a serious challenge from what is commonlycalled globalisation. Trade unions feel the need to ‘scale up' their activities beyondtheir, once paramount, national terrain and to challenge capital's untrammelledforward march internationalising and commodifying everything in its path. This article examines the new forms of labour internationalism and the way in which trade unions have been creating incipient counter-hegemonic strategies. The only certainty in this globalised and complex situation is that a continuation of national era trade union strategies is not a viable path. A possible ‘transformationalist' alternative is posed in this paper, arguing that labour needs a multi-layered and flexible response to the new globalcapitalist order."

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