European Migration Policy – Too Much of the Same
When in a European context immigration is talked about it usually does not take long before the name FRONTEX pops up. Migration is mostly mentioned in the same breath as “illegal” and “illegal immigration” – the term is...[more]
Immigration Is Good, Immigration Is Bad, Migration Is (a Fact)
A Human Drama in Three Acts and a Few Ideas[more]
The Migrations of Roma in the European Union – an Ethnic Minority as the Sport of European Politics
France is sending Roma back to Romania, Roma are “voluntarily” leaving the country to go to Macedonia, Czech Roma are seeking asylum in Canada – these headlines of recent years have repeatedly drawn the eyes of the public to the...[more]
What Science for What Democracy?
The expression “science and democracy” has been spreading. Its meaning, consequently, is becoming polysemous. Is there, on the one hand, an eternal “science” (more or less fantasised) and, on the other, a “democracy” that has to...[more]
From Oligarchy to the New -Challenge of Global Politics
Most analysts and citizens of Western society suppose that we live in a democracy. But is it really democracy – a system where the people rule and its representatives carry out the popular will? Or, do we live in an oligarchy...[more]
1 March 2012: Transnational Migrants’ Strike
1 March has become a symbolic day for transnational migrants’ strike. The activists refer to the term “strike“ not only in its literal meaning connected to work and labour – they also want to strike against the racist normality...[more]
Strikes, Mobilisations and Dialogue of Political and Social Forces
It is a rather realistic estimate which Reuters put at the beginning of its report on the meeting of the EU-Council: “Europe signs up to German-led fiscal pact. Chancellor Angela Merkel cemented her political ascendancy in Europe...[more]
Neue Folge „Occupy Bankfurt“ im Netz
Dokumentarfilm von Martin Kessler [more]
France: The Left Front – The Challenge of a True Popular Dynamism
As everyone knows, in the 2005 referendum the French people rejected the European Constitutional Treaty. What had enabled this success was that, for the first time, forces opposed to neoliberalism worked together and created a...[more]
The LINKE after the Elections of 2011
The Berlin elections of September 2011 were the last in this year’s election cycle of seven regional and two communal elections. On the positive side, the LINKE has been able to assert itself as a political force for social...[more]
Fluid Democracy: The Italian Water Revolution
From Commons to the referendum[more]
Danish Elections – New Government
A new Danish government was formed on October 3rd, consisting of three parties: It is led by the Social Democrats – the other participants are the Liberal Democrats (”Det Radikale Venstre”) and the Socialist People’s Party – SF....[more]
The Turning Point In Italian Politics: The Victory Of The Centre-Left In The Milan Elections
Preliminary remarks During these days of August and September 2011 there has been much discussion in Italy of the famous “moral issue” in politics, naturally not only regarding the corruption and the intertwining of business and...[more]
The European Union and the Dilemmas of the Radical Left
„... the task arises is not merely to criticize the policy of the ruling classes [...] from the standpoint of the existing society itself, but also to contrast existing society as its every move with the socialist ideal of...[more]
World Wealth report and other exciting news
On October 15, inspired by the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement, the ‘indignants’ took to the streets in 951 cities in 82 countries from Asia to Europe, Africa and the Americas. They had good reasons to do so. According to the...[more]
Citizenship: A Fundamental Issue for Democracy
When I was elected to the European Parliament in June, 2009, I wanted to continue to fight as I always have for human rights and citizenship, which are not separate issues, as well as for popular education, in the widest sense of...[more]
Economic and Institutional Crisis - Perspectives for the Belgian Social Movement
Today the majority of the media and most analyses of the Belgian situation speak of an “institutional crisis” or a “communitarian crisis”. While this way of conceiving the Belgian situation does reflect a part of the reality, it...[more]
Three Sources of Ukraine’s “Freedom” - Nationalism, Xenophobia and the “Social Issue”
In the last three years, the popularity of Ukraine’s right-wing party Svoboda (Freedom) has seen an eightfold increase. At the moment, the party is supported by 6% of the country’s population, though it seems unlikely that...[more]
The Hungarian Disaster
I hate writing this article. Since I oppose the alarming authoritarian developments in my country and am pleading for the restoration of civil liberties, I might appear to be what I definitely am not: someone who thinks that the...[more]
The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Finland: The True Finns
Right-wing populist anti-immigration parties, such as the National Front in France, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Progress Party in Norway and the Danish People’s Party have done well in many European countries over the last...[more]
New Aspects of the Radical Right
Until the beginning of the 21st century, political science generally defined the “far right” differently from the conservative and the liberal right on several fundamental points, even though definitions varied depending on the...[more]
Domino Effects in the Arab Countries: The Concern Over Crude Oil and the Contradictory Egyptian Protest Against the West
With astonishment the world has taken note of the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt as well as the mass protests in other countries of the Middle East and the Maghreb. While in most countries of the Middle East the social and...[more]
Revolution in Egypt - A Live Report
Part One Cairo, February 7 Turbulent days lay behind us and the revolution was still going on. At least, internet was back and phones working. On this day the city returned to a sort of normal life, with the usual restrictions...[more]
300 immigrants on hunger strike in Greece
Call for Solidarity [more]
Car Conversion:Towards an Eco-Socialist "Economy of Reproduction"
The car industry is a good example of the current many-sided crisis, or, better, its crystallisation point: for decades the industry has been characterised by enormous over-capacity – nevertheless western car manufacturers want...[more]
Economic Democracy: A Crisis Alternative
On June 22, 2009, at the initiative of Espaces Marx (transform!) and the regional government of the Île de France, labour leaders, elected officials, scholars and representatives of civil society met to discuss economic democracy...[more]
“Seeing Things Their Way”: The Contemporary Immigrant Experience in Europe
Seeing things their way” is Quentin Skinner’s fundamental methodological exhortation. Skinner advances interpretations of specific political or moral beliefs by placing them in the context of other beliefs, the interpretation of...[more]
Regarding "The Return Directive"
Letter from Evo Morales regarding proposed new European Union Immigration policies Until the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Tens of millions of Europeans came to the Americas to colonize, ...[more]
Seminar on Participatory Democracy and Participatory Budgets in Local Governments
On November 22 and 23, 2008 transform!, the group of the Communist Party in Bohemia and Moravia in the Prague City Hall the Czech Association SPED, which is a member of transform!, jointly organised a European seminar on...[more]
Participatory Democracy and Participatory Budgeting in the Local Governments
On the basis of an agreement transform! europe the KSCM representatives (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia – CPBM) of the Local Prague authority and SPED (Society for the European Dialogue) have organized a seminar about the...[more]