Europe, the crisis, divisions, alternatives, strategic issues

Input from Elisabeth Gauthier (Director of Espaces Marx, in France and member of the Managing Board of Transform! Europe)

Athens 26 – 02 - 2010

This text has benefited from the seminar on crisis organized by Transform! In Vienna in January 2010 and has been enriched from a debate carried out in the Managing Board of Transform! Europe and particularly thanks to the useful remarks of Walter Baier, Stephen Bouquin, Patrice Cohen-Seat, Haris Golemis, Véronique Sandoval. It was presented at a meeting organized by Synaspismos and the European Left Party held in Athens February 27. For alternatives, see European Left Party, Platform for the 2009 European Parliament Elections; Euro-Memorandum 2009/2010, www.memo-europe.uni-bremen.de/euromemo and the editions produced with the help of Transform! Europe in English, French, German, Greek (www.transform-network.net; Jurgen Klute, Wastun — in der Krise, Supplement 1/2010 Zeitschrift Sozialismus. Dominique Crozat, Economic democracy, an alternative to the crisis. An account of a symposium held in Paris in June 2009. Transform! N°5.