Crisis and the People in Greece
“They are not frightening us, they are just making us furious!” The so-called negotiations between the Greek Government and the Troika (European Union – International Monetary Fund – European Central Bank) have come to the...[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]
Second Round of the Finnish Presidential Elections: A Breakthrough of Emancipation?
On Sunday, 5 February, Mr Sauli Niinistö of the centre-right National Coalition Party was elected as the 12th president of the Republic of Finland. In the final round of the elections he beat the Green Party candidate Mr Pekka...[more]
Thematic Social Forum on Rio+20 and Informal IC in Porto Alegre
The Thematic Social Forum Rio+20, taking place in Porto Alegre from 24 to 28 January, was a long awaited for event. The objective was to prepare the People’s Summit that will take place in Rio at the time of the UN-Summit in June...[more]
transform! Newsletter 02/2012
Crisis and the People in Greece - European Secretariat of the Sao Paulo Forum was Set up – Strikes, Mobilisations and Dialogue of Political and Social Forces - 2nd Round of the Finnish Presidential Elections .........[more]
European Secretariat of the Sao Paulo Forum was Set up – A Promising Step forward
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]
Greece: He who sows misery, harvests anger
European leaders and the IMF demanded from the unelected and illegitimate Greek government a new austerity plan for the release of the EU "assistance", not for social development, which is a vital need for...[more]
Netherlands: Support striking cleaners
Thousands of Dutch cleaners, members of trade union FNV Bondenoten, are standing up to fight their invisibility in society. They have been on strike for more than 30 days to demand respect and fair pay on the job. The cleaners'...[more]
2012 – Year of Crisis and Resistance: Creating a New Balance of Power
Ten years after the introduction of the Euro, of which it was said that it would unite Europe, the European Union is more divided than ever both socially and economically. [more]
Elections in France: The Front de Gauche’s Campaign
Three months before the first ballot, it is the economic and social questions which are the central issues, and they come together in the debate around the public debt. Popular sovereignty, the nature of the different powers, the...[more]
How Croatia Became the New Record Holder
“A clear majority in favour of EU-accession”, that is how the teletext of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation reported about the referendum in Croatia regarding the country’s accession to the EU. And indeed, two thirds of he...[more]
Sharp Contradictions in Hungary
Initially, in the countries of Eastern Europe at the time of the transition from socialism to capitalism, the majority of the populations remained politically passive. People patiently awaited the establishment of a welfare...[more]
Greece on a Tightrope
Two months after its formation, the new coalition government of the Socialist Party of PASOK, the right-wing party of New Democracy and the far Right under the technocrat, ex-senior officer of the ECB, Lucas Papademos, continues...[more]
Italy: Demand freedom of association at Fiat
Sign the petition of solidarity[more]
transform! Newsletter 1/2012
Creating a New Balance of Power - Greece on a Tightrope - Sharp Contradictions in Hungary - How Croatia Became the New Record Holder - Elections in France: The Front de Gauche’s Campaign - Finnish Presidential Elections: First...[more]
Printed Versions of EuroMemorandum 2012
Available in English, German, French [more]
Commemoration of Frantz Fanon
On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death[more]
Meeting in the European Parliament
Organized by the European Alternatives Network. Brussels, 30 November [more]
Action against the Right
Conference in Vienna, 25-27 November[more]
Για την Εργασία και την Αριστερά
Σεμινάριο του Espaces Marx[more]
Working Group transform! Brussels 2011 Conference
On 9 December 2011 the transform! Brussels Working Group organised a conference on “Radical Perspectives on European Union Studies”. The conference aimed to complete the first year of work of the Working Group and to complement...[more]
transform! Newsletter 10/2011
An Alternative Takes Shape - Working Group transform! Brussels 2011 Conference - Seminar “About Labour and the Left” - Conference “Action against the Right” - Meeting in the European Parliament - Commemoration of Frantz Fanon -...[more]
An Alternative Takes Shape
Report on the Workshop of transform! europe and the European Left[more]
Against political harassment by the Lithuanian government. Solidarity with Algirdas Paleckis
For the first time ever in the post-soviet area, a person is threatened with 1 year in prison just for questionining one version of one historical event. The freedom of speech is at stake in Lithuania, a NATO and EU member state....[more]
Basic income research project: call for contributors
Project supported by the Left Forum (Finland) and transform! [more]
Neue Folge „Occupy Bankfurt“ im Netz
Dokumentarfilm von Martin Kessler [more]
Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12
Posted on Nov. 19, 2011, 8:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt [more]
Successful International Conference on the Rise of the Far Right in Kiev
From November 11th - 13th there was in Kiev an international conference on the rise of the far right. The conference "Alternatives to the rise of the far right in times of economic, social and ecological crises" was...[more]
Joint Social Conference Romania - A Report
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]
transform! Newsletter 9/2011
The Banker and the Nazis - Ten Years of Austerity or Bankruptcy in Greece - Global Day of Action - Protest against the Fidesz Government - Demonstrations against the last G-20 - Economic Governance for the People or for the...[more]
Peoples’ Forum and Demonstrations against the last G-20 in Nice
A New Threshold Crossed by the Movements[more]
The European Left Party Expresses its Solidarity with the Hungarian Antifascist Movements
The ELP deeply condemns the renewed attacks against the Hungarian Association of Resistance Fighters and Antifascists (MEASZ) and personally Vilmos Hanti chairman of the Hungarian Association and of FIR (Fédération ...[more]
October 15th, Stockholm: The battle for the suburbs
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]
Referendum in Greece: consulting the people is an utmost necessity, but not on the basis of a blackmail
Referendum en Grèce : la consultation du peuple est une nécessite absolue mais pas sur la base d’un chantage[more]
3 Short Perspectives on the EU Economic Crisis
Andy Storey (University College Dublin), Dominique Plihon (Attac France) and Hilary Wainwright (Transnational Institute) share their perspectives on the EU economic crisis as it unravels in Ireland and France, and its impact on...[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]
Report: Annual Conference of the EuroMemo Group
Vienna, 16-18 September 2011[more]
Report on the Conference in Vienna on Workers’ Struggles in Globalised China
22-24 September 2011[more]
France: For the First Time Ever, a Left Majority to the Senate
Till now it was generally considered that, under the 5th Republic’s 1958 Constitution, the Senate (the Upper House of Parliament) could never swing Left. However, during the senatorial elections of 25 September last, despite an...[more]
Γιορτή της εφημερίδας l’Humanité
Το transform!europe ήταν εκεί....... 16-18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011[more]
General Assembly of transform! europe
Prague, 9-11 September 2011[more]
transform! Newsletter 8/2011
EU-Crisis and the Battle of Interpretation - Joint Social Conference - Elections in Berlin and Denmark - transform! General Assembly - Mesopotamian Social Forum - Workers’ Struggles in Globalised China - EuroMemo Conference [more]
“Let’s Unite against the Austerity Programmes!”
Joint Social Conference and Coalition of Resistance gathered in London[more]
The EU-Crisis and the Battle of Interpretation*
The great crisis that we are experiencing is the result of nearly forty years of neo-liberal offensives. The crisis is particularly severe in Europe – which is not unconnected with the very manner in which Europe is being built,...[more]
Danish elections - New Government
The result of the parliamentary elections in Denmark means that the rightwing government of the last 10 years has finally been ousted. A new government will be formed under the leadership of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the...[more]
transform! Newsletter 7/2011
Norway is Stronger than Hatred and Xenophobia - Greece: Urgent Appeal to the International Academic Community - 6th Summer University of the EL - European Network Academy for Social Movements - Annual Members’ Meeting of...[more]
European Network Academy for Social Movements (ENA)
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]
Norway is Stronger than Hatred and Xenophobia
It is very quiet in the streets. Everywhere there are flowers. There is a strong will not to allow this situation to create a climate of fear. What we see right now is Norway and Oslo from their best sides. If we want to learn...[more]
Urgent Appeal to the International Academic Community
"Defend Higher Education in Greece!"[more]
Newly released: The Left Between Growth and De- Growth
Discussion Papers. Edited and introduced by Teppo Eskelinen[more]
Genoa 2001-2011
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]
European Conference: Austerity, debt, social destruction in Europe
Find here our conclusions - also as pdf download in 4 languages (en, de, es, fr) [more]
transform! Newsletter 6/2011
The “Indignants’” Movement in Greece - 15 May and the Spanish Revolution - Conference in the European Parliament - The Left between Diversity and Fragmentation - Annual Members’ Meeting of transform![more]
The “Indignants’” movement in Greece and the claim for real democracy
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]
Austerity, debt, social destruction in Europe: stop ! Coordinate our strengths - Democratic alternatives are necessary and possible!
European Conference on 31 May 2011 in the European Parliament (Brussels) - in partnership with the GUE/NGL Parliamentary[more]
International Conference „Decolonisation – New Emancipatory Struggles“
Zagreb, 15-21. 5. 2011[more]
15 May and the Spanish Revolution
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]
transform! Newsletter 5/2011
Who said that the Crisis of Western Capitalism is over? - Citizens’ Disobedience in Greece - 19th ISW-Forum - Conference on the Far Right in Kiev - Journal transform! Issue No. 8 - Summer University of the EL[more]
Petition: Say no to the attack on social and democratic rights in Europe!
The financial crisis has caused a substantial increase in public debt. Instead of sending the bill to the banking and financial services industry, European governments and the European Commission plan to make ordinary citizens...[more]
A brief note on the mobilization of thousands of young people in Spain
“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]
transform! Newsletter 4/2011
Comeback of Politics in the Finnish General Elections - Dynamo Seminar - Short Travelogue in Tunisia - Economic Governance in the European Union - In the Shadow of Industrial Disasters - Universal Basic Income as a European...[more]
A Comeback of Politics in the Finnish General Elections
The people of Finland have spoken: a landslide victory for the nationalist-traditionalist True Finns, who got 19 % of votes (+14.9 %) and 39 seats (+34) in the 200-seat parliament, while all the other parties were...[more]
transform! Newsletter 3/2011
Conference on the Sovereign Debt - The European Competitiveness Pact is Unacceptable - Towards a European Agenda against Austerity - Youth Movement against Precariousness in Portugal - The Struggle of the 300 Immigrant Hunger...[more]
Πυρηνική Ενέργεια; Ούτε να το σκέφτστε!
Ανακοίνωση του τμήματος Οικολογίας και Περιβάλλοντος του Συνασπισμού[more]
Joint Social Conference: The European Competitiveness Pact is unacceptable. But there are alternatives! We will fight for them.
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! Newsletter 2/2011
International Women’s Day Centenary - Conference “Public Debt and Austerity Policies in Europe” - World Social Forum in Dakar - Conference “The Crisis of Civilisation” - ESF-Assembly - 1st Spring Social Conference[more]
World Social Forum DAKAR, SENEGAL 2011
Special Edition of Transform Europe Journal[more]
transform! Newsletter 1/2011
Dakar hosts the 2011 World Social Forum - Life Stream of the Conference “A Crisis of Civilisation?” - transform! provides Medical Examinations for Hungary - Conclave of the transform! Managing Board - Hunger Strike of Immigrants...[more]
300 immigrants on hunger strike in Greece
Call for Solidarity [more]
transform! Newsletter 11/2010
Conference "A Crisis of Civilisation?" in Paris - 3rd Congress of the Party of the European Left - The European Left in Central and Eastern Europe - Greece: Police Terrorising Young People - transform! at the next World Social...[more]
transform! Newsletter 10/2010
Whose Hair will be Cut - The International Council of the World Social Forum Met up in Dakar - Elections in Greece - Historical Materialism Conference in London - Conference on Poverty - Forum of a Social Europe - Members and...[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 10/2010
newsletter 102010 Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important...[more]
[fse-esf] After the meeting in Paris
Dear friends, Just below a message from the french comitte The CIFS (French initiative committee on social forums) met on the 15th of November to assess the european assembly held on October, 23-24 in Paris and to...[more]
transform! Newsletter 9/2010
Ongoing Social Struggle throughout Europe - Important Meetings on the Eve of the Euro-Demonstration - Meeting of Unemployed and Precarious People in Brussels - 16th Conference of the EuroMemo Group - European Social Forum on the...[more]
transform! Newsletter 8/2010
transform! General Assembly - Electoral Reform of the European Parliament - Hot Autumn in France - Fête de l’Humanité 2010 - Mundo Obrero Festival - 6th International Marx Conference - Remarks on the Split of Synaspismos -...[more]
transform! Newsletter 7/2010
The Public Debt Crisis: A Challenge to the Left - The Upcoming General Assembly of transform! - The Split of Synaspismos - The US and the European Social Forum - EL Summer University - The Left in Government: Latin America and...[more]
transform! Newsletter 6/2010
Policy Paper: Immediate Measures. Setting the Course towards a New Direction - Address to the 6th SYN Congress - Seminar “Meaning, Subjects and Spaces of Transformation” - Conference “The Past of Three PIGS” - transform! at the...[more]
transform! Newsletter 5/2010
International Council of the World Social Forum - transform! Working Group Brussels - Enlazando Alternativas - Strategic Perspectives of the Left in Europe (II) - European Social Forum 2010 in Istanbul - Summer University 2012[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 9/2010
Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives...[more]
Report on Joint Social Conference in Romania (JSC Ro)
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]
transform! europe Newsletter 8/2010
Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives of...[more]
EUROMEM0RANDUM 2010 Rethymno, Crete
Notes on presentations and discussions[more]
ESF Istanbul 2010: Analysis and Reports
Seminars co-organised by Transform!, Analysis and Reports[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 7/2010
Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives of...[more]
Newly released: Speeches from the International Women’s conference Copenhagen, 2010
The international women’s conference in Copenhagen on March 6 – 7, 2010, was organized to mark the 100 years of the International Women's Day, which was proposed by Clara Zetkin and decided at a women's conference in Copenhagen...[more]
Letter from the Italian economists
A RESTRICTIVE POLICY WORSENS THE CRISIS, ADDS FUEL TO SPECULATION AND CAN BRING TO THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE EURO ZONE. THE DIRECTION OF ECONOMIC POLICY NEEDS TO BE CHANGED TO PREVENT ANOTHER BREAKDOWN OF INCOMES AND...[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 6/2010
Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives of...[more]
Football for the people
In the coming weeks, the eyes of the world, at least the football world, will turn to the Republic of South Africa. The World Cup is not only a huge sport event but also a gigantic organisational and business effort. Modern...[more]
On the "accumulation by dispossession"
More the crisis of financial globalization deepens, more the left seems weakening. Italy, at least, perfectly mirrors such a situation. Nevertheless a qualitative change is mounting. For the better or for the worst, we are on...[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 5/2010
Reports International Council of the World Social Forum, Mexico City transform! Working Group Brussels: Recent public debate on Greece Enlazando Alternativas/Linking Alternatives,...[more]
What future for the PIGS? The case of Greece, the response of the EU and alternative solutions.
In the midst of the Greek crisis, the transform Working Group Brussels organised its second meeting this year after a successful kick-off on 7th April 2010. Like in the previous occasion it brought together a milieu of activists,...[more]
On the Move to the Next World Social Forum
From May 5th to 9th, the International Council of the World Social Forum came together in Mexico City in a meeting to prepare the next edition of the World Social Forum in February next year in Dakar, Senegal. At the beginning...[more]
Greece in front of the abyss?
The financial situation in Greece is getting worse everyday. For the time being, it is impossible for the country to borrow from the financial markets. The rate of interest for the Greek 10 years bonds is 10,55% (18,50% for the 2...[more]
A Shock-Therapy After the Smolensk Tragedy?
On Monday, instead of leading a planned discussion before the pre-premier showing of the ‘Shock-Doctrine’, I paid my respects, in front of the headquarters of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) in Wroclaw, to the victims of the...[more]
The peoples’ summit of Cochabamba
The social, political and ecological economic crisis we are undergoing, is in fact a crisis of capitalism. Following the human and ecological destruction, its utility for the general interest of society is therefore more and more...[more]
transform! Newsletter 4/2010
Crisis and European South - transform! at the Left Forum in New York - Left Alternatives to End Poverty - Strategic Options for the Left During the Crisis - Alternatives to Right-Wing Extremism - International Conference of...[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 4/2010
Find in the attachment the newsletter 4/2010. Reports and Articles Crisis and European South (Workshop in Athens) transform! at the Left Forum in New York Left Alternatives to End Poverty (Working...[more]
European Appeal
As originators of this European Appeal, we want: • to contribute towards the development of the capacity for resistance and actions of solidarity by the peoples of Europe to the demands of the shareholders, banks and...[more]
Alternatives to right wing extremism in times of social and ecological crisis
27 - 28 March the alleuropean mobilizing committee for the ESF in Istanbul (1.-4. July ) prepared together with the Czech Social Forum in Prague a Conference.[more]
Transform at the Left Forum in New York
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). The...[more]
Europe, the crisis, divisions, alternatives, strategic issues
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...[more]
100th anniversary of the initiative for the first International Women's day
Speech from Laura Tuominen (Left Forum Finland) in the conference for commemorating the 100 annivarsary of International women's day in Budapest 07-03-2010 On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the initiative for the...[more]
transform! europe Newsletter 3/2010
Find in the attachment the newsletter 3/2010 and the folder of our seminar: “Why the Crisis Seems to Favour Rather The Right than the Left in Europe” (Majorca, March 12 – 13) Articles Report from the 10th...[more]
transform! Newsletter 3/2010
Download here our newsletter vol. 3 as well as the folder of our seminar: “Why the Crisis Seems to Favour Rather The Right than the Left in Europe” (Majorca, 12-13 March) [more]
EuroMemorandum 2009/2010
Europe in Crisis: A Critique of the EU’s Failure to Respond and Proposals for a Democratic Alternative. With an Obituary For Joerg Huffschmid (1940 –2009) by Diana Wehlau[more]
transform! Newsletter 2/2010
With the present newsletter we want to inform on short notice about current initiatives of transform!europe.[more]
We Mourn for Joerg Huffschmid (1940-2009)
Commemoration 20 February in Berlin. The details of the Memorial Meeting for Jörg in Berlin have now been finalised. *Dinner* The Memorial Dinner will be on Friday, 19 February. Admission will be from 7 pm, and...[more]
transform! Newsletter 1/2010
Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives of...[more]
Judith Butler delivered the 3rd Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture, in Athens.
The event, announced already in newsletter 1, was a great success in terms of the quality of Judith Butler’s lecture, the attendance (hundreds of people, mainly young, crowded the big Goethe Institute Auditorium, its foyer and...[more]
transform! Newsletter 1/2009
From now on the transform! europe newsletter will be published regularly once a month. It will contain information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives of social...[more]
People Must Adopt These Issues As Their Own
Emergency climate control and social justice: people must adopt these issues as vital ones. Yet, a few days before the opening of the Copenhagen Summit, the chances of arriving at an agreement on these questions are minimal....[more]
Poulantzas Today: Conference in Honour of Nicos Poulantzas
A very interesting, successful and useful NPI - transform!europe Conference, Athens, 18 and 19 December 2009. When, some time ago, we discussed the idea of organizing the NPI - transform! Conference, in Athens, to commemorate...[more]
Axes for European Social Forum defined in Diyarbakir and Paris
13 axes of discussion were defined for the European Social Forum - 2010 that will be held in Istanbul (1 to 4 of July), after the meeting of a working group last saturday (November, 21), in Paris, and a previous discussion in the...[more]
“Our university... our lives!”. Austria’s students’ protests
For nearly three weeks now students in Austria have been occupying their universities and protesting. Solidarity is strong and protests are spreading and connecting – into and with other countries’ universities and other spheres...[more]
Mesopotamia Social Forum (MSF) in Diyarbakir
Thousands of activists from more than 50 countries participated in the Mesopotamia Social Forum, in Diyarbakir, (southeast Turkey). The struggles against war and neo-liberal policies, the fight for the rights of women, the...[more]
European Social Forum on its way to Istanbul
The EPA was held in Vienna from 19 to 21 June. More than 70 organizations from Turkey are involved in the organization of the next European Social Forum (ESF), to be held in Istanbul, in June 2010. This open and dynamic...[more]
Honduran Military Assassinates Leftist Presidential Candidate
Congressman Cesar Ham was a zelaya ally and organizer of the opinion poll on a new constitution Cesar Ham, presidential candidate and the head of Honduras' only registered leftist political party, the Democratic Unification 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]
Lothar Bisky Elected President of GUE/NGL Group
The European United Left/Nordic Green Left (*) group in the European Parliament today unanimously elected German MEP Lothar Bisky (DIE LINKE) as president of the group. After thanking all group members for their confidence and...[more]
Capitalism ’09
Capitalism ’09 is part of a series of international events that focus on the analysis of contemporary capitalism. The event took place at the Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland, on April 23. Speakers were Stephen Gill (York...[more]
European elections in Portugal: Anti-capitalist left takes 21% of the votes
Bloco de Esquerda and the coalition leaded by the Communist Party reinforced their positions in the elections for the European Parliament. Following the tendencies across Europe, the Socialist Party in the government had an...[more]
Saving Jobs. Proposals against deflation by trade unions
Presentation at Nordic Coference, Copenhagen 26./27.1.2009[more]
Finnish experiences on economic stagnation in the 90s
Presentation at Nordic Conference: The global financial crisis – and the answers from the left-wing [more]
On the European Social Model
Since the beginning of the 1990s the concept of the “European Social Model” has characterised the position and perspective of official EU policy. What is the meaning of this concept? The European Commission defines the...[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]
Social-ecological Reconstruction as a Challenge for Left/Socialist Politics
We are concerned with societal changes which improve people’s conditions of life. “People’s conditions of life” always involve the integrity of people, their individual freedom and possible influence on social developments, their...[more]
Fighting Plant Closures
Results of a study from Germany The crisis on the international financial markets has had a powerful impact on the real economy. The explosive nature of the situation is produced by two crises coming together and to an extent...[more]
From Neoliberalism to Global Social Democracy
Speech at the First Plenary Session of the Left Forum, Pace University, New York, April 17, 2009 Good evening. I would like to thank the organizers of the Left Forum for inviting me to join the distinguished members of this...[more]
Meeting of transform! in Athens, December 2007
Annual Meeting of transform! europe On December 15, 2007, transform! europe assembled for its 2007 annual meeting in Athens. At the same time, the Greek member organisation, the Nicos Poulantzas Institute, celebrated it...[more]
Meeting of transform! in Stockholm and election of a new board
Annual Meeting of Transform! Europe – Stockholm, June 15th 2008 On June 15th the Network transform! europe gathered in its annual general assembly in Stockholm. The assembly took place after a two-day seminar entitled "The...[more]
The End of Capitalism - A speech by Immanuel Wallerstein in Helsinki
Immanuel Wallerstein talked to an audience of 500 people at the Old Student Union House in Helsinki on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The talk was part of a bigger event, Capitalism '08. The possibilities of a freer future. The house...[more]
transform! europe in Malmö
transform!europe is a European network which consists of research and educational institutions and magazines in 13 European countries. Since its foundation transform!europe has participated in all European Social Forums. In...[more]
Integral socialism and today's left
Once upon a time, in a far away country, Austria, a long time ago, socialists called themselves "socialists", because they wanted to bring about a new society which was called "socialism". In Austria these...[more]
Alliances Day brings the World Social Forum to an End
The World Social Forum came to an end last Sunday in Belém do Pará. The last day was Alliances Day and was devoted to extended meetings with the aim of finding common grounds for common action. In the morning there were partial...[more]
The Crisis in the World Social Forum
The international crisis was one of the main issues discussed on the World Social Forum. On the last day, I was in charge of delivering a lecture about it, together with the Venezuelan economist Eduardo Lander, in a seminar...[more]
Correa, Lugo, Morales and Chavez at the WSF
Lula was not there to play hostess, but yet four Latin American Presidents of the Republic united their voices in a rally in Belém do Pará, outside the Word Social Forum. They asserted the importance of the WSF contributions to...[more]
Amazon Rainforest, a heritage for all
After the huge march at the start of the World Social Forum, Wednesday saw the beginning of the more than two thousand debate sessions that make up the program, spread out by major thematic areas which point out the main claims...[more]
100 000 march on the opening of the World Social Forum
The hundred thousand participants in the WSF who crossed the city of Belém stopped the traffic and brought the locals to their windows. The huge police deployment was intimidating enough, but did nothing but watch an...[more]
The World Social Forum starts this Tuesday
The World Social Forum starts this Tuesday, in Belém do Pará, close to the Amazon Rain Forest. More than one hundred thousand participants are expected, to attend more than two thousand panels and discussion seminars, as well as...[more]
WSF: Resolution and a Plan of Action
"Other News" is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on...[more]