the lack of a union movement is a big difference between now and then, and the structural changes dumping production elsewhere (excluding germany) make it unlikely for one to develop. history doesn't move backwards. something may indeed be on the brink of change, but it's going to have to revolve around the massive unemployment levels that seem to have no long or short term solution short of......war? disease? or the organization of something new?

so long as unemployment remains high, production remains minimal and unions remain dead, the only solution is in building local infrastructure, with the possible long term effect of a society broken into incredible class stratification - managers at the top running global trade and finance to create goods for themselves, with peasants building self-sustainable communes at the bottom. that is what is currently inevitable in europe. and whether that flows into violence or not depends on how or if the state obstructs it.

http://jacobinmag.com/2012/04/introduction-europe-against-the-left/