Editorial

Dear reader, The sixth issue of the transform! magazine presents a broad spectrum of texts relevant for the left discussion. The opening texts are On the Relationship Beetween Precariety and Staate Power by Judith Butler and...

Only the Beginning is Always “New” 10 Years of the World Social Forum

The emeregence of the World Social Forum (WSF) occurred at a time when neoliberalism was determining the agenda of the ruling classes. Flamboyantly, they announced that “There is No Alternative” (TINA) to it. The initiators of...

Exploring Left Alternatives for ­Ending Poverty in the “First World” Transform! Working Group Brussels

Exceeding all expectations, a critical mass of over 50 people (a milieu of left-wing social activists, academics, politicians, radical intellectuals and employees of European Union institutions) met on March 1 to discuss a key...

History and the Critique of Capitalism

I. The far-reaching transformation of the world in recent decades has dramatically indicated that contemporary critical theory must be centrally concerned with questions of temporality, of historical dynamics and large-scale...

The Social Crisis in Europe: Politics of Precariousness or Shift to a New Social Model of Regulation

One year and a half after the outbreak of the current economic recession, generated by the financial crisis that began in the USA a year earlier, all international organisations are announcing the beginning of recovery in Europe,...

System Change – Not Climate Change

There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more fertile...

On the Relationship Between ­Precariety and State Power

* (based on Judith Butler’s address at the Third Nicos Poulantzas Annual Memorial Lecture) As you will see, I am not offering a theory of state power, but wish to focus on certain dimensions that I hope you will find of...