Brussels, March 2012: Towards an Alternative European Summit[more]
International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance...[more]
Brussels, March 2012: Towards an Alternative European Summit[more]
Brussels, 29 - 30 March 2012[more]
The Sao Paulo Forum (SPF) is an organisation of some dozens of left-wing and progressive parties from Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been working for several years and has considerable political influence in Latin...[more]
Sign the petition of solidarity[more]
Dokumentarfilm von Martin Kessler [more]
INTRODUCTION The 2nd Edition of the Joint Social Conference in Romania was organized by the AD FSR together with CSDR TU Confederation, SIPA ‘Muntenia’ TU of Arges County and FSLI TU Federation on the 22nd of October...[more]
A New Threshold Crossed by the Movements[more]
Accommodation is an explosive issue. Housing loans played a central role in the outbreak of the global economic crisis and in many countries, the increasing costs of living is the ultimate reason for people to go out in the...[more]
In the discussion of an alternative economic order the terms “producers’ democracy” and “workers’ self-management” are inseparably bound up with the “Yugoslav experiment”. The “Third Way” of Yugoslav socialism acted as an...[more]
Sure, we were all happy. And of course we celebrated. The whole world was watching Egypt. We were enormously proud. But then? The Egyptians have returned to daily life, which has become much more difficult than before, because...[more]
Less than a year ago, the whole Arab Region, from Tunisia in the West to Yemen in the South East, was the arena of a gigantic and extraordinary popular uprising for freedom and democracy. The decades-old dictatorships of Hosni...[more]
From Commons to the referendum[more]
In Spain the crisis of 2007/2008 marked the end of a long political cycle. Since the 1980s, a big centre coalition tried to build a modern welfare state on the ruins of a destroyed labour society and to finance it through...[more]
This article attempts to illustrate the particularities of the Greek movement organised against the austerity measures, imposed by the government under the auspices of the EU and the IMF. Apart from its economic demands, the...[more]
22-24 September 2011[more]
Joint Social Conference and Coalition of Resistance gathered in London[more]
Presentations by Johannes Jäger and Steffen Lehndorff. Report by Walter Baier[more]
Joint Social Conference Study day in London, Sept. 30, [ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm ][more]
From 9-14 August, the European Network Academy (ENA) of ATTAC Europe took place in Freiburg / Breisgau (Germany). Of the about 1,300 people attending, most were activists of social and ecological movements and members of left...[more]
Freiburg, 9 - 14 August 2011[more]
In the past ten years, we, the people demonstrating at the Genoa counter-summit in 2001, have been struggling not to lose the expectations expressed at that time. The people demonstrating in Genoa belonged to a movement...[more]
Not long after the big manifestations of the “Indignados” at the Square of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and other spanish cities, a similar call quickly diffused through the social media (blogs, facebook, twitter) invited the greek...[more]
The project of a modern Spanish welfare state (“finance-capitalist welfare state”) has exhausted itself historically. In March 2011 a small group of young people with an urban / metropolitan background organised a demonstration...[more]
“We, the unemployed, the underpaid, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young … demand a change towards a future with dignity. We are fed up of reforms, of being laid off, of the banks which have caused the crisis hardening...[more]
The conference aims to bring together each year before the Spring European Summit, a broad range of unions, social movements and activists looking for alternatives to globalisation in order to reaffirm the priorities necessary...[more]
transform! europe participates at the „European Network Academy for social Movements“ (ENA) of the European Attac Network which takes place from the 9th to the 14th August 2011 in Freiburg i.Br. (im...[more]
The Future Of The Alternative Globalisation Movement Land, Water, Food, Energy, Common Goods, Peace Theology Of Liberation, Latin America[more]
In July we will see a strong – at least so we hope – mobilization in Genoa, in an effort to re-connect social movements, unions, associations after ten years of antiglobalization struggles and of strong...[more]
The Effects of the Open Source Movement on the Development of Politics and Society[more]
Interview conducted by Francine Mestrum What do you make of the Action Day and the European demonstration that took place in Brussels on September 29? The September 29 demonstration was a great success – in two ways. First,...[more]
In the wake of the European trade-union mobilisation on September 29 in Brussels various political meetings took place in order to strategise joint struggles against the neoliberal policies in Europe. transform! europe took part...[more]
A Round table was held in Paris on October 24 with the following participants: Elisabeth Gauthier, Espaces Marx (Paris)/Transform!, Alessandra Mecozzi, International Secretary FIOM-CGIL (Italy), Petre Damo, Romanian Social...[more]
1. GENERAL ASPECTS The 1st edition of the Joint Social Conference in Romania (JSC Ro) was organized on 25th-26th of September 2010 in the City of Pitesti. Its main objective was to promote the model and general aims of the...[more]
March 19 – 21 at Pace University in New York City saw the 29th annual gathering of the conference first known as the Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC) (1981 – 2004) and then the Left Forum (LF) (2005 to the present).1 The...[more]
There is no doubt: the trade unions, particularly the German ones, represent reliable supporters of Europe. Although the unions repeatedly emphasise that Europe could be more social, they mostly support European unification...[more]
A Joint Social Conference took place in Brussels on September 14 and 15. It gathered together 20 countries with 22 trade-union confederations and 22 networks, social movements or NGOs, all interested in European social...[more]
The eventOn April 23, 2009, a group of unemployed textile workers in Novi Pazar, southern Serbia, began a hunger strike. Their main demand – in the name of all 1,532 members of the Association of Textile Workers of Novi Pazar,...[more]
Presentation at Nordic Coference, Copenhagen 26./27.1.2009[more]